Meet the mentors for the Accra edition of Martell Swift Academy

The Korea Partnership for Innovation of Agriculture (KOPIA) Ghana Centre and the University of Engineering and Agricultural Sciences (UEAS) are exploring a strategic partnership to strengthen agricultural education, research, technology transfer and sustainable farming.

Ghana has long held a special place in the hearts of West Africans and visitors from farther afield. Its stability, rich cultural heritage, business-friendly reputation and the genuine warmth of its people give it a natural edge in the race for international visitors, investors and conference business.

The Chartered Institute of Restructuring and Insolvency Practitioners (CIRIP) has appealed to the government to allocate funding to the institute, warning that resource constraints are undermining its role in business rescue, insolvency regulation and economic resilience.

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (CSIR-SARI) is developing at least three improved sesame varieties to boost yields, strengthen climate resilience and support the commercialisation of the crop in Ghana.

African market knowledge, specialist banking expertise and increasingly capable AI could reshape how trade is financed. The opportunity is to make sound transactions easier to assess, faster to execute and more transparent throughout their lifecycle.

In 2020, Zoweh Global Consult published its first survey of coaching in Ghana and six years on, our follow-up asks how far the profession has travelled.

The European Union-funded Gold for Good (G4G) Project, implemented by Coginta, has launched three baseline studies on artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASM) in Ghana’s Savannah Region, highlighting critical governance, environmental and livelihood challenges that require coordinated action to make the sector safer, fairer and more sustainable.

There are some reforms whose significance is not fully appreciated when they are introduced. They appear modest at the time, only to reveal their transformative power decades later.