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We do not have a no-bed problem. We have an ineffective triage problem
I spent most of my clinical career overseas, much of it in stroke care. One lesson sticks. In any well-run A&E in the world, the bed is the last thing the patient needs. The first thing they need is to be sorted at the door. When the ambulance arrives at a major teaching hospital in a system that takes triage seriously...
Safe city: Unnoticeable protection
What, precisely, constitutes a safe city? We tend to think of the visible markers: a well - lit street, the reassuring presence of a patrol car, the siren that arrives just in time. But there is a quieter, more algorithmic architecture rising in the background - one that tends to resolve problems before they even annou...
AI is the new phase of the digital age, and Africa must be ready or risk being left behind – Dr Bawumia warns at LSE Africa Summit
Former Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has cautioned Africa to up its game in embracing digital technology because the phenomenon is witnessing rapid transformation.
The parking lot is not a stage; stop gifting cars to children in school
There is a scene playing out across senior high school campuses in Ghana that, until very recently, would have been unthinkable.
From foundation to failure: Policy lessons on why construction stalls
The recent collapse of an abandoned 4-storey building at Accra Newtown, leading to some fatalities, brings into sharp focus the need to discuss the growing rate of abandoned buildings in Ghana.
Ex-Wimbledon champion Vondrousova given four-year ban
Former Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova has been banned for four years for refusing an anti-doping test.
Restoring a national institution: The leadership blueprint behind NIB’s revival
In the annals of institutional recovery, there are turnarounds, and then there are interventions.
Ghana’s Proposed Loans Act: Can Legislation Enforce What Conditionality Cannot?
ACCRA — Finance Minister Dr Cassiel Ato Forson has announced that government is preparing to introduce a new Loans Act aimed at tightening controls on public borrowing and ensuring that all debt contracted delivers measurable value to the economy. The proposed legislation will strictly define the permissible uses of bo...
The Carbon Credit Market: Another excellent opportunity for Ghana to get it right
Mr Speaker, I am indeed happy that Ghana has taken important early steps to position itself in the emerging global carbon credit market.
UN vote on slavery: US, Israel should not have voted no; UK shouldn’t have abstained
On March 25th, 2026, the United Nations General Assembly voted to condemn slavery as a crime and to call for reparations. The effort was led by Ghana and was long overdue. In a sense, the vote was anticlimactic and not given enough attention. Indeed, some have argued that a unanimous Security Council resolution would h...
What Is Wrong with Us? When we treat trees as strangers and forget we are part of nature
There is a quiet contradiction unfolding across Africa, and it deserves urgent reflection. We are a continent whose ancestors understood the sacred value of forests, rivers, wetlands, and sacred groves. Across generations, African societies lived with an instinctive awareness that human life was inseparable from nature...
Traceability is the new currency of global cocoa Trade
For the better part of a century, the commercial value of a cocoa origin was determined by three variables: physical quality, volume reliability, and price competitiveness. These fundamentals remain indispensable. But the global cocoa trade is undergoing a structural shift in which a fourth dimension has emerged, not a...