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© The Electricity Company of Ghana is disconnecting offices that are behind in paying their electricity bill. (Photo: @ECGghOfficial)

pay up

Ghana: Power company ECG disconnects state bodies over $480m debt Ghana’s major power distributor Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is on a massive nationwide disconnection spree primarily targeting state institutio...
© Ghana’s Special Prosecutor on corruption Kissi Agyebeng (photo: @ospghana)

NO PAY

Premium badgeGhana: Special Prosecutor unpaid for 17 months as anti-graft advocates fume Ghana’s special prosecutor on corruption Kissi Agyebeng has had to wait 17 months since he was sworn into office on 5 August 2021 before being paid; a...
© Flintlock training on March 2023 (photo: Kent Mensah)

Target Practice

Premium badgeGhana: African forces regroup at US-led Flintlock exercise to fight Jihadists African armies have completed a two-week intensive exercise in counterterrorism led by the US, part of a plan to thwart Islamic State and al-Qaeda fig...
© Mana Mobility’s CEO Valerie Labi (photo: @OxfordABA)

micro-mobility solutions

Premium badgeManufacturing, not assembling should drive Ghana’s EV revolution – Mana Mobility’s Labi Valerie Labi, the CEO of Mana Mobility, is on a mission to democratise electric vehicles in Ghana. Central to this idea is moving the budding electric...

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© File photo of an artisanal miner climbing out of a gold mine with a bag of rocks broken off from inside the unlicensed mining site of Nsuaem Top in Ghana. (REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra)

rigid regulation

Premium badgeGhana needs stricter regulation and technology to fight off gold-smuggling hub tag ‘The State of the Illicit Economy’ report, presented at the AfCFTA Business Forum in Cape Town, South Africa last month by OriginAll, a company that c...
© Ghana’s Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta speaks during a news conference in Accra, Ghana December 13, 2022. REUTERS/Cooper Inveen

purse manager

Premium badgeGhana: 10 things to know about Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is steering the affairs for Ghana’s long journey towards a $3bn IMF bailout. The investment banker turned politician e...
© Artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at the Visual Art Awards, London, 2016. John Phillips/Getty Images via AFP

Gifted & Black

Premium badgeGhana-UK: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s figurative Black portraiture After showing at the Tate, this painter is being welcomed by the Guggenheim, where 70 of her works are showcased.

Ghana top stories

© File photo of an artisanal miner climbing out of a gold mine with a bag of rocks broken off from inside the unlicensed mining site of Nsuaem Top in Ghana. (REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra)

rigid regulation

Premium badgeGhana needs stricter regulation and technology to fight off gold-smuggling hub tag ‘The State of the Illicit Economy’ report, presented at the AfCFTA Business Forum in Cape Town, South Africa last month by OriginAll, a company that c...
© Ghana’s Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta speaks during a news conference in Accra, Ghana December 13, 2022. REUTERS/Cooper Inveen

purse manager

Premium badgeGhana: 10 things to know about Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is steering the affairs for Ghana’s long journey towards a $3bn IMF bailout. The investment banker turned politician e...
© Artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at the Visual Art Awards, London, 2016. John Phillips/Getty Images via AFP

Gifted & Black

Premium badgeGhana-UK: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s figurative Black portraiture After showing at the Tate, this painter is being welcomed by the Guggenheim, where 70 of her works are showcased.

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© The Ghana Electoral Commission proposal of using the Ghana Card to get a voter ID is being fiercely resisted by opposition MPs and some members of civil society. (National Identification Authority)

Card Kerfuffle

Premium badgeGhana: Electoral Commission faces resistance over new voter registration requirement Ahead of Ghana’s crucial general elections in 2024, the electoral commission is proposing a constitutional change that will make a controversial natio...
A market in Onitsha, Nigeria, on the night of the presidential election, 24 February 2023. © Patrick Meinhardt/AFP

LEFT OUT

Premium badgeGhana, Nigeria, Zambia…Why food inflation is not slowing down in Africa The global trend towards a slowdown in the rise in the prices of basic consumer goods is not yet clearly visible in Africa. We explain why.
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan meets with Vice President Kamala Harris in Harris’ ceremonial office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Friday, April 15, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Charm offensive

Premium badgeVP Kamala Harris selects US-friendly reformers for first Africa trip Vice President Kamala Harris will become the most senior official from the Joe Biden administration to travel to Africa when she stops by a trio of US...
© Mabel Porbley

banking on strengths

Premium badgeGhana: To weather the storm, we aim at sustainability even if not profitable – Sanlam’s Porbley Since July 2022 when Ghana announced its IMF programme, the economy has taken a nosedive and businesses across sectors have been severely impacted. De...
© Rahul Dhir, CEO of Tullow Oil. REUTERS/Shelley Christians

Jam Tomorrow

Premium badgeTullow Oil struggles to convince on Ghana-reliant debt-reduction plans Tullow Oil’s full-year earnings left analysts unconvinced that the company has turned the corner on reducing its debt.
The Ghanaian cedi has been awarded the ‘title’ of the continent’s worst performing currency in 2022. © Adobe Stock

lack of transparency

Premium badgeGhana: Economic woes deepen over debt swap debacle, Eurobonds decline Ghana’s failure to meet a self-imposed deadline to restructure its bilateral debt by the end of February has led to a sharp decline in its Eurobonds, ...