Ghana

customs duty

Ghana’s traditional and state powers must collaborate to halt illegal mining

Small-scale mining forms an important sector of Ghana’s economy, employing one million people directly and supporting the livelihoods of about ... 4.5 million people. The industry accounts for 35% of the country’s total gold production.

tower defense

Helios Towers faces challenges from debt and slow growth

Helios Towers, the operator of phone masts in sub-Saharan Africa, will report third-quarter results on November 14, its first financial report ... since its IPO in London in October.

Cocoa cartel

Akufo-Addo says Nigeria, Cameroon membership of cocoa pricing floor needed

Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire need to get Nigeria and Cameroon on board their minimum cocoa price agreement, Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo ... said at the Africa Investment Forum in Johannesburg.

Shocking results

Ghana must stop backroom dealings to fix power crisis

Ghana's leading think tank, Imani, assesses the recent power privatisation scandal and looks forward to possible ways to resolve the crisis. ...

power africa

Financing Africa’s gas future is a big undertaking

The opportunities are clear - Africa needs power, and it has the gas resources to provide it. It will need to attract the finance however, with ... the right policy mix to unlock investment.

Chocolate cartel

Nigeria’s plans for the OPEC of cocoa unlikely to bear fruit

For Nigeria to fix cocoa prices with Cameroon it would first need to deliberalise its cocoa sector. ...

Gold Trap?

Ghana now Africa’s largest gold producer, but reforms await

It’s too soon for Ghana to pat itself on the back as it overtakes South Africa as the continent’s largest gold producer. ...

money walks

Ghana’s financial sector crisis is now part of the election campaign

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo is contesting the 2020 presidential elections against a backdrop of a fragile banking sector. While reforms ... have been undertaken, including moves to tackle corruption, they have not met all expectations.

No end in sight

West Africa: Shifting strategies in the Sahel

The security situation in the Sahel is worsening. The region has experienced a massive spike in deadly violence in the first half of the year, ... and militant groups continue their expansion southward, now threatening coastal West Africa.

export express

Ghana: How to finance the industrial revolution

Ghana’s government launched the ‘One District One Factory’ (1D1F) policy in 2017 to spur industrial development, but many of the country’s ... banks are not ready to deliver the dream of a modern industrialised economy.