The headline figure looks reassuring: Ghana’s two sovereign petroleum funds closed the first half of 2026 with a combined balance of US$1.64 billion, up from an opening balance of US$1.55 billion at the start of the year. Yet the underlying…
When the football federations of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger formally submitted a joint bid to host the 2032 Africa Cup of Nations, they did more than enter a continental sporting competition. They placed a direct institutional question before the…
A single public statement from a presidential candidate cannot halt a criminal prosecution in Ghana. That is the institutional reality at the centre of a case that has drawn unexpected attention to the boundaries between political will and prosecutorial independence…
Kenya and Ghana have opened formal discussions on a bilateral health partnership covering Universal Health Coverage architecture, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and digital health infrastructure, with both governments signaling intent to translate diplomatic engagement into concrete institutional programmes. The talks took place…
Kenya Reinsurance Corporation’s move to establish physical offices in Dar es Salaam and Kigali signals a concrete institutional bet on East African market integration, one that carries implications for how reinsurance capacity is built, regulated, and distributed across the region.…
What exactly has the Dangote refinery achieved, and why does it matter beyond Nigeria? In August 2025, a tanker loaded with 300,000 barrels of finished gasoline departed the Lekki port complex in Lagos and sailed to the United States. The…
Kenya minted more dollar millionaires in 2026 even as ordinary households absorbed a punishing cost-of-living crisis, raising pointed questions about the structural drivers of wealth distribution across East Africa’s largest economy and what this bifurcation signals for regional economic integration…
A Crime Hidden in Plain Sight Walk through Accra’s Makola Market on any given morning and the evidence is everywhere: branded pharmaceuticals sold loose from unmarked packaging, software loaded onto devices without licenses, consumer electronics bearing logos that bear only…
The Tema Oil Refinery’s receipt of one million barrels of Jubilee Medium Sweet Crude on 15 July 2026 poses a precise governance question: can Ghana’s sole state-owned refinery convert consistent upstream supply into a structurally competitive downstream operation, or will…
Canada and Ghana marked a 56% surge in bilateral trade to US$752 million in 2025, with Ottawa signalling deeper private sector engagement across mining, renewable energy, and agribusiness at a moment when Accra’s position as host of the AfCFTA Secretariat…
