Category: Industry

Accra, Ghana//-In boardrooms across Accra, Lagos and Nairobi, executives spend extraordinary energy debating marketing budgets, branding refreshes and digital reach. Yet the most expensive losses on the ledger sales rarely come from rejected offers.

Family offices managing trillions of dollars are increasingly repositioning portfolios for what they see as one of the defining economic shifts of the 21st century: the emergence of a multi-polar world.

Ghana’s Former Finance  Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has secured a legal victory in the United States after an immigration court approved his application for lawful permanent residency, in a development that could complicate efforts by Ghana to secure his return to face multiple criminal charges.

U.S. dollar–pegged digital tokens reduce payment frictions but raise new policy trade-offs Nigerian households and small firms are moving money across borders in a new way: via smartphones, digital wallets, and U.S. dollar–pegged crypto assets known as stablecoins.

A new UNCTAD report finds that rising borrowing costs are leaving many developing countries with less money to invest in schools, healthcare, infrastructure and climate action. Between 2018 and 2024, 99 developing countries – home to 5.5 billion people – saw rising interest payments reduce the fiscal space available for development. Developing countries continue to […]

On the Day of the African Child, this year dedicated to universal access to water, the global charity Mary’s Meals highlights the essential role of water and sanitation within its school feeding programmes and remembers the sacrifice made by thousands of African students 50 years ago in defence of their right to quality education.

ARUSHA, Tanzania, June 13, 2026/ — The East African Community (EAC) is scaling up regional efforts to respond to the ongoing Ebola outbreak and strengthen preparedness measures against communicable diseases across the region.

The government has rolled out interim measures to facilitate the implementation of Ghana’s newly enacted legal education framework, offering thousands of aspiring lawyers a clearer route to professional training while addressing a longstanding backlog of law graduates awaiting admission to the Bar.

Government, through the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), has announced that the producer price of cocoa for the 2026 Light Crop Season will remain unchanged, despite falling prices in the international cocoa market.

In Ekumfi, a coastal district in southern Ghana known for its agricultural production, the work begins early.