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Last week I was privileged to be one of the few journalists invited by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa to attend and cover the Eighth Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development, in the Rwandan capital, Kigali.…

March 6, 2022 marks 65 years of the birth of Ghana after gaining independence from British Colonialism. Ghana is an amalgam of the Crown Colony: Ashanti Protectorate; Northern Territories and Trans-Volta-Togoland, crafted to suit the…

There are instances where numbers speak with some clarity that words may not. There are numbers that clearly define and reflect the real state of affairs of Ghana, numbers that show where the country is and where it is heading. Some of the…

In this era of Free Senior High School, it is the expectation of every parent to see his or her ward progressing to tertiary institutions after leaving Senior High School. This is because of the elimination of school fees since 2017.…

In 2010 Ghana applied for a loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to construct an important road. The 147.5km of road between Fufulso and Sawla was to include what was described as key socio-economic infrastructure – these include…

Having observed a rise in temperature and irregular rainfall patterns, Mr Dominic Oduro, a cocoa farmer, is bracing the odds to adapt to the change. In the last five years, he had been nurturing species of shade trees including …

There is a dire housing situation that is akin to a pandemic in Ghana. That’s not in question. Particularly, the situation in urban areas is severe. According to Ghana government estimates, in 2015, population growth would likely add two…

In the office of a friend somewhere in Accra hangs a beautiful piece of photography showing two boys at the beach with no shirts on, wearing only faded shorts, torn at the edges and tied with strings at the waist to keep them in place.

As Greg Anderson, an American author would put it: “Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” Africa has since January 1, 2021, been on a journey to create the world’s largest…

In 2020, we observed the largest one-year debt surge since World War II, with global debt rising to $226 trillion as the world was hit by a global health crisis and a deep recession. Debt was already elevated going into the crisis, but now…