Urgent political finance reforms to protect democracy across Africa

The latest Eurobond repayment by government has strengthened confidence in the country’s commitment to honouring its post-restructuring debt obligations, but investors and analysts say sustained fiscal discipline and continued macroeconomic improvements will determine whether the gains translate into lower borrowing costs and a return to international capital markets.

The banking industry has an unhealthy concentration of bad loans in two sectors of the economy, where it channelled a bulk of its credit in 2025, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Ghana has revealed, just as the fall in interest rates pares the profit cushion that once absorbed such losses.

 Development Bank Ghana (DBG) has disbursed GH¢2.5billion to about 1,000 businesses across all 16 regions over the past five years - with more than half the beneficiaries being women-led enterprises, the bank’s Chief Executive Officer Prof. Randolph Nsor-Ambala has disclosed.

The Tree Crops Development Authority (TCDA), STAR Ghana Foundation and Cashew Watch Ghana (CWG) have resolved to explore alternative financing models that reduce dependence on donor funding and ensure long-term sustainability of climate-resilient interventions in the cashew sector.

The Deputy Minister for Defence, Ernest Brogya Genfi, has reaffirmed the government's commitment to restoring communities affected by the devastating June 29 floods,

The staff and management of the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF) defied an early morning downpour on Saturday to undertake a major clean-up exercise within selected communities in the La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly LaDKMA.