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What a clean washroom at Prempeh I International Airport says about Ghana’s development
This past weekend, I travelled to Kumasi to attend a funeral. As is often the case when travelling, I paid attention not only to the journey itself but also to the little details that shape one’s experience of public services. It was at Prempeh I International Airport that I encountered a lesson which, in my view, exte...
Can Ghana replace onerous bail conditions with electronic tracking bracelets?
An accused person should not need a rich relative with landed property before enjoying the right to bail.
Electronic line-calling in Madrid wrong – Rybakina
Elena Rybakina said she did not trust the electronic line-calling system at the Madrid Open following a disputed decision in her three-set win against Zheng Qinwen on Sunday.
Sinner beats Norrie to equal historic winning run
World number one Jannik Sinner's brilliant form continued as he reached the quarter-finals of the Madrid Open with a straight-set win over Britain's Cameron Norrie.
Rain, floods and sanitation: Ghana deserves better than annual tragedies
I am an angry, demoralized Ghanaian and you should be too. The rains came, garbage and cars and people floated down our streets and we wailed! Predictably, the President declared a National Clean-up exercise and piles of garbage have been dug from gutters-, waiting to be returned to the drains by future rains. Comicall...
Drowning by Design: How Accra chose its floods
Every rainy season, Ghana’s capital goes underwater, and every rainy season the rains take the blame. Three decades of evidence point somewhere far less comfortable. A city that drowns on schedule The choreography of an Accra flood is now so familiar that residents could stage it from memory. The first serious downpour...
Sinner says successful Wimbledon defence sweet after French Open shock
Jannik Sinner said his successful Wimbledon title defence felt all the more sweet after his surprise early exit from the French Open last month
When the rains return, so does our shame: Accra is not drowning by accident
Every year, the rains come. Every year, Accra floods. Every year, lives are lost, homes disappear beneath muddy waters, businesses collapse, and families begin again from nothing. And every year, after the waters recede, so does our outrage.Then we wait for the next tragedy. The latest floods that swept through parts o...
Africa’s food future hinges on leadership: The Infrastructure we can’t afford to ignore
Africa has never lacked ambition for its food systems. What it lacks is sufficient capacity in food systems leadership to turn that ambition into results.
2025 Budget: An analysis of how PPP frameworks, gov’t priorities, and amending laws would affect project finance
Ghana’s 2025 Budget Statement and Economic Policy, themed “Resetting the Economy for the Ghana We Want”, shows a pivotal shift towards fiscal discipline, economic transformation, and sustainable growth.
South Africa’s Xenophobia is a gun pointed inward
Xenophobic violence in South Africa is not new, but its targets shift. In May 2008, over 60 people were killed, mostly Mozambicans and Zimbabweans. April 2015 saw attacks in Durban and Johannesburg on Malawians and Zimbabweans. Between 2019–2021, Nigerians and Zimbabwean truck drivers were targeted. In recent weeks of...
Ghana’s second Independence moment: Why citizens must engage in constitutional reform
The 1992 Constitution of Ghana is the longest-lasting constitutional order since independence. For the 34 years during which the Constitution has been in force, it has fostered a rigid two-party political competition that has accommodated ethno-regional and religious cleavages, enabling a stable system of regular elect...