After many years of struggle, protest and agitation, the Right to Information (RTI) bill that was drafted in 1999 by Ghana's Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) to promote transparency and fight corruption went through several reviews and was passed into law on May 21, 2019.
The law is to provide...
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a big impact on nations, communities, families, and businesses. Most economies have responded with large measures not only for the health sector but for the economy as a whole. Several African countries are assessing the impact of the crisis and designing emergency stimulus packages...
The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to a new kind of African consumer who is already displaying fundamental shifts in consumption and purchase behaviour, driven by factors such as heightened health awareness, a focus on quality and safety, a renewed desire to stay at home, and a tight wallet...
The years after the 2007-09 global financial crisis were characterised by an orgy of rulemaking by financial regulators around the world to address the weaknesses exposed by the upheavals. Importantly, a renamed and reinforced Financial Stability Board (FSB), reporting to a series of G20 summits, oversaw the process of...
Africa’s dependency on commodity exports, including oil, makes it more vulnerable to the impact of COVID-19. Getty Images
The African Continental Free Trade Area was launched two years ago at an African Union (AU) summit in Kigali. It was scheduled to be implemented from 1 July 2020. But this has...
Quite a number of road traffic accidents, sometimes mild or repulsively ugly, leave people every day with temporary or permanent disabilities alongside emotional pain and sometimes death. Debatably, road accidents are the new leading cause of death by injury - and the tenth-leading cause of all deaths globally.
And if...
The United Nations proclaimed May 22 The International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues.
Globally, around 25% of all animal and plant species are threatened with extinction. Nowadays, while gaps in knowledge still exist - particularly with regard to the interlinkages among nature’s...