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The Digital Trust and Operationalization of Ghana’s Gold Offtake Enablement Layer

A new wind is blowing across Africa’s minerals resources endowment landscape reflected in a paradigm shift from the decades long historic model of exporting the greatest bulk of mineral assets to pragmatic actions being taken towards positioning them for exporting locally refined and value added products in order to maximize economic benefits. Also noted, is a change in appreciating “local content” as if it were simply limited only to how many citizens were employed in various job categories  by foreign minerals extraction companies to a new dawn of higher sense…

Ghana’s Non-Interest Banking & Finance Journey gets a major boost

……As Five-Day Trainning & Study Tour Ends in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Story: Mohammed A. Abu The five-day International Workshop and Study Tour in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, that entailed, non-interest banking and finance training, sukuk structuring, capital market products, and Takaful (non-interest insurance) has ended on a successful note. The primary intended target audience were Ghana’s state financial institutional regulators, capital market operators, bankers, pension fund administrators, potential sukuk issuers, etc. The programme brought together professionals from Ghana, Nigeria, Malaysia, and other countries to explore the exploits of this East Asian…

VWA Expresses Solidarity with Flood Victims Across Africa

Victims Watch Africa (VWA) has extended  its deepest sympathies and unwavering solidarity to all individuals, families, and communities affected by the devastating floods impacting several countries across Africa. We are deeply,the organisation said, saddened by the loss of lives, the destruction of homes and livelihoods, and the displacement of thousands of people. During this difficult time, it intimated, our thoughts and prayers are with every victim, their families, emergency responders, volunteers, and all organizations working tirelessly to provide relief and restore hope. These were contained in a Press Release signed…

Reimagining South–South Cooperation: Building an India–Africa Strategic Partnership for the Next Global Economy

Author: Hariharan Sundararajan Chairman, Federation of Asian African Trade Development & Investments (FAATDI) Founder & Strategic Visionary, Bharat Strategic Apex Institute (BSAI) Founder & Managing Director, Aurum Elite Bullion LLC & AuroChain A Perspective on Strategic Commodities, Financial Architecture, Trade, Technology, and Sustainable Development The global economy is undergoing a permanent structural realignment, shifting decisively from open-ended globalization to fragmented, hyper-localized geoeconomics. As traditional supply chains fracture and multilateral systems struggle under the weight of great-power rivalries, the Global South can no longer rely on legacy external frameworks to guarantee…

High Commissioner urges Ghana to look beyond the west for economic solutions

Source: Anass Sabit, KUALA LUMPUR , 26 June 2026 11:16am Ghana’s High Commissioner to Malaysia, Florence B. Akonor, has called on the country to reduce its over-reliance on Western economic models and instead draw lessons from Asia’s development success stories. According to her, Ghana must learn from Malaysia’s discipline, policy consistency and long-term vision if it is to overcome its current economic challenges. The remarks were made on the fourth day of an intensive five-day training and study tour in Kuala Lumpur, where Ghana’s top financial regulators are studying Malaysia’s globally The…

Roads That Build Communities The Social Benefits of ECOROADS® Soil Stabilization for Rural Populations

Introduction A rural road is never only a road. For the communities it serves, it is the difference between a harvest that reaches the market and one that rots in the field; between a child who reaches school every day and one who is kept home when the track turns to mud; between a clinic an expectant mother can reach in time and one that lies beyond the reach of an emergency. Across much of the rural and developing world, the absence of reliable, all-weather roads remains one of the…

Ghana Beat England 0 – 0 …. Yaachajaaa Ma!-(By: Professor Kwesi Yankah)

D-Day Tuesday. Ghana was busy cross-country: long vehicular traffic, pockets of crowd; eating joints, drinking spots come alive. Not quite a holiday, but it was. If you were a bank cashier, you counted twice, saliva assisted. The Living Room restaurant would not be left out, festooned in flags and buntings. The day’s dress code was Ghana; or else indigestion! Shops around the country were busy with sales, and one vendor was celebrating an average sales of 10k cedis a day! A Black Star win anywhere, boosts local economies. Not quite…

Tribune – Burkina’s Maiden Sukuk Issuance:Turning Burkinabe savings into a development power

By Issa Malgoubri, CEO of SGI Image Finances Internationales, Lead arranger and Lead placement manager The first Sukuk of the State of Burkina Faso is not just a financial innovation. It is a national, regional, and international call to finance economic sovereignty through ethics, real economy, and trust. Features of FCES SUKUK BURKINA RENAISSANCE 6.80% 2026-2035 There are operations that mobilize resources. And there are operations that mobilize a Nation. The launch of FCES SUKUK BURKINA RENAISSANCE 6.80% 2026-2035 belongs to this second category. With this issuance of 75 billion CFA…

Africa’s top cobalt producer moves closer to launching its first stock exchange after $1.25billion Eurobond debut

Ayodeji Adegboyega,First published,24 June 2026 09:34 AM The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Africa’s largest producer of cobalt and one of the world’s most mineral-rich nations, is moving closer to launching its first stock exchange as the government seeks to build the financial infrastructure needed to attract investment beyond the mining sector. DR Congo has signed a partnership with the IFC to support the creation of the Kinshasa Stock Exchange. The move comes months after the country raised $1.25 billion through its debut Eurobond issuance. Authorities hope the exchange will expand financing…

Burkina Faso Condemns European Parliament Resolution, Summons EU Envoy

News, Sub-Regional,Fist published,June 22, 2026 The Burkinabe government on Monday condemned a recent resolution adopted by the European Parliament, as well as comments made by French Member of the European Parliament Christophe Gomart, describing them as “false,” “contemptuous,” and disconnected from the realities facing Burkina Faso. In response, Foreign Affairs Minister Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré summoned the head of the European Union delegation in Ouagadougou, Philippe Bronchain, to formally convey the country’s dissatisfaction. According to the minister, the resolution was based on inaccurate information and failed to acknowledge the sacrifices and efforts made…