Trade vulnerability prompts urgent AfCFTA utilisation

                    By Wisdom JONNY-NUEKPE & Christabel DANSO ABEAM

A total value of  US$816.05 million in wholly Ghanaian-owned investments was recorded in 2025, highlighting growing domestic participation in economic transformation.

Ghana's celebrated economic growth in the decade preceding its debt crisis concealed a more troubling reality:

Mansu Technologies Ltd, the platform behind "Crypto Made Easy," has been named among the first participants admitted into the Securities and Exchange Commission of Ghana's Virtual Asset Sandbox.

The Ghana Chamber of Mines has welcomed a government-backed roadmap to resolve the dispute involving Adamus Resources Limited, saying the agreement could help protect jobs, investment and the future of one of the country's few indigenous large-scale mining operations.

The government has granted Adamus Resources Limited a 12-month reprieve to develop and implement a roadmap aimed at turning around its mining operations.

The government has inaugurated a negotiations team to lead discussions with a strategic investor for the modernisation and expansion of the Volta Aluminium Company Limited (VALCO), as it seeks to revive the struggling smelter and strengthen the aluminium value chain.

The Cocoa Marketing Company (Ghana) Limited (CMC) has launched a 24-hour operating model aimed at removing bottlenecks in the movement of cocoa from take-over centres to local processors, ports and international markets.