More than 400 actors and stakeholders from the global cashew industry, representing over 33 countries, are expected to attend the 19th African Cashew Alliance (ACA) Annual Cashew Conference and Expo in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This is the third time Tanzania will host the significant event. scheduled for November 18-22,...
By Kingsley MOGHALU Strengthening the trade between African countries is a necessary first step toward equipping the continent to engage with the world economy on its own terms. For too long, Africa has been trading with others on terms that ensure its place at the bottom of the global value...
The Global Africa Business Initiative (GABI) issued its Unstoppable Africa 2024 Executive Summary today, shedding light on transformative strategies and solutions to reshape Africa’s financial narrative and accelerate economic growth. The report highlights GABI’s call for the development of an inclusive financing model to address Africa’s unique challenges, focusing on...
The Chief Finance Officer of MTN Ghana, Antoinette Kwofie has emphasized the need for African countries to move away from fragmented economic strategies and instead work towards a common goal, leveraging the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to drive investment and trade. She has further emphasised that countries in...
By Professor Douglas BOATENG In Africa, there is an unsettling tendency to destroy reputations of individuals, institutions, and nations in the name of accountability. The West and the emerging powers of the East have mastered the art of protecting their public image. They address internal challenges quietly and ensure that...
By Makafui AIKINS Chapter 1:  Empirical Trump is back! And naturally, so is his ‘the United States of America is a victim of international trade’ rhetoric. He has been consistently emphatic on this point—years upon years before he ever actively contemplated holding office, during his first term of office, then his four...
By Hannah Gyamfua MENSAH The recent wave of deportations under the Trump administration has placed thousands of Ghanaians in a precarious situation. As of November 2024, over three thousand Ghanaians remain on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) non-detained docket, facing an uncertain future as the U.S. government accelerates the removal...
By Ernest Bako WUBONTO The withdrawal of agricultural support programmes threatens to reverse years of progress in food security and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa, where about 60 percent of the population depends on agriculture for their livelihood, Dr. Amos Azinu, President-National Seed Trade Association of Ghana (NaSTAG), has warned. The...
By Sandra Agyeiwaa OTOO Former Board Chairman of Minerals Income and Investment Fund (MIIF), Professor Douglas Boateng has urged African leaders to prioritise industrialisation, trade integration, and infrastructure development, warning that without bold action, the continent will remain economically stagnant. “If we do not invest in research, development, and industrialization, we...
True repentance on the part of the West, who divided and plundered Africa, must go beyond symbolic gestures, by not only providing assistance to the continent, but must seriously finance its revival, help it restore its unity, and support its sustainable development, Togolese minister of Foreign Affairs, Robert Dussey...