Ghana Wants Private Operators Inside Its Power Utility, and Labour Is Digging In
Ghana ECG private sector participation is targeted for early 2027, but the Trades Union Congress has threatened legal action to...
September 8, 2026Topic
Western Africa
Ghana’s New Bond Drained Its Own Secondary Market
Ghana bond market turnover fell 68% week on week to GH¢2.12bn, as investors moved cash into the new four-year government...
September 8, 2026
A White Stone at Glidji, and Togo’s Guin Community Exhales
The Togo sacred stone lifted from the wood at Glidji this weekend came out white, the colour the Guin read...
September 7, 2026
Sierra Leone’s Former President Comes Home, Two Years After a Treason Charge
Sierra Leone Koroma has flown home to Freetown after the attorney-general discontinued the treason case brought over the 2023 armoury...
September 7, 2026
Ghana Returns to the Medium-Term Curve as Bids Top US$390m
Ghana's first four-year cedi bond since the domestic debt exchange drew US$392 million in bids and cleared at 12%, with...
September 7, 2026
At Least 25 Die as a Bus Leaves the Crater Road on Cabo Verde’s Fogo Island
The Cabo Verde bus crash on Fogo killed at least 25 people, most of them children, and the government has...
September 7, 2026
Watchdog Seeks Audit of Mali Military Contracts Since 2020
Mali military contracts from six years of army rule should be audited, an anti-corruption network told the Auditor General on...
September 6, 2026
Guinea Buries 36 Killed in Conakry Landfill Collapse
Guinea buried 36 people killed in the Conakry landfill collapse. Seventeen were Sierra Leonean, confirmed earlier by Freetown.
September 6, 2026
Niger Blames France for Failed Mutiny; Paris Denies
Niger blames France for the failed 29 August mutiny in Niamey. Paris calls the accusation pure fantasy. What the cabinet...
September 6, 2026