Having already claimed nearly 217,000 lives and sent the global economy toward its deepest slump since the Great Depression, the COVID-19 crisis is bound to reshape geopolitics. While the contours of the post-pandemic order remain to be seen, one thing seems certain: far from normalising their relationship, the United...
Blessed with almost every natural resource that one can think of, Africa has an unenviable record of heavily depending on foreign goods. It has become chronic from governments to governments, and dictators who have been in power for generations have not even the slightest idea of ending it.
For decades,...
Since the emergence of the novel Coronavirus in the country, Ghana’s President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been addressing the country on an almost weekly basis as he outlines the latest updates in the response to the virus.
In previous addresses, the president shared plans to stop international travel, close...
Governments and policy makers must focus on saving lives and economies at all cost without regard to Debt to GDP ratios. We are in a very difficult time globally. The world is faced with a serious pandemic that’s ravaging all economies. World economic giants are all scrambling to stop...
Since South Africa went into lockdown four weeks ago to slow the spread of the coronavirus, hairdresser Nasreen Pillay has had no income. Without a job contract, she cannot apply for government aid either.
“If my mother and father-in-law did not help me, I would be going hungry,” Pillay, a...
The world’s economy is predicted to suffer a significant decline because of COVID-19. Some hard-hit economies will experience a negative growth rate. We are told Ghana’s growth in GDP, which was projected at 6.8 percent, could fall to 1.5 percent. One may ask if we should be concerned with...
The Covid-19 pandemic is by far the most widespread disease outbreak in the twenty-first century. Medical scientists across the globe are relentlessly conducting researches to discover more information on the epidemiology of this disease and possibly come up with a vaccine. Meanwhile, a number of response measures have been...
The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic poses a fundamental question: Is this one of those historic moments when the world changes permanently, when the balance of political and economic power shifts decisively, and when, for most people, in most countries, life is never quite the same again? Put...