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Spotlight | Ghana
Kosmos pulls out all the stops to convince Accra on Oxy

US oil junior Kosmos Energy hopes to convince the Ghanian government to allow it to become the country's leading oil company. It is currently well placed to acquire Occidental Petroleum's assets in Ghana but needs government approval for the operation.

Subscribers only Energy 20.08.2021

Ghana
Ex-Chamber of Mines boss, Toni Aubynn, takes aim at illegal mining

Created by Toni Aubynn, former CEO of the Chamber of Mines and the Ghana Minerals Commission, the Africa Institute for Extractive Industries is developing a strategy to help the Accra authorities better manage the mining sector, especially illegal miners, known as galamseys.

Subscribers only Mining 16.08.2021

Toni Aubynn, former CEO of the Chamber of Mines and the Ghana Minerals Commission, has created the Africa Institute for Extractive Industries.

Africa, Iran
Tehran's secret diplomacy to turn Ebrahim Raisi's swearing in into mini-African summit

Since mid-July, Iranian diplomats have been generously handing out invitations to African heads of state to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Ebrahim Raisi.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 29.07.2021

Mali
Growing ECOWAS exasperation with wayward Colonel Goita

The house arrest of former president Bah N'Daw and his prime minister Moctar Ouane continues to rankle in west African capitals. Some ECOWAS figures are also concerned that the presidential elections planned for next February might be postponed.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 26.07.2021

Colonel Assimi Goita, Mali's transitional president.

Inner circles | Ghana
The Cocoa Board, the force powering Ghana's economy

Ghana produces, just behind Ivory Coast, almost 45% of the world's cocoa. At the head of this "brown gold" boon is the Ghana Cocoa Board, or "Cocobod", headed since 2017 by Joseph Boahen Aidoo, a loyal supporter of President Nana Akufo-Addo.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business 16.07.2021

The Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) headquarter, in Accra.

Spotlight | Ghana
ExxonMobil, Aker Energy and ENI fed up with Accra

Business in Ghana is dismal: production is low and exploration at a standstill. Companies are becoming more vocal about their exasperation with the state and some are even pulling out entirely.

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2021

Mali
ECOWAS leaders to deliberate over Goita's military takeover

The regional organisation will hold a closed meeting over the next few days to discuss the situation in Mali after the interim vice president Assimi Goita forced the transitional president, Bah N'Daw, from power. Backstage, discussions between west African leaders have already begun.

Subscribers only Politics 28.05.2021

The ECOWAS delegation sent on 25 May to Bamako, led by Goodluck Jonathan.

Ghana
Fincantieri squares up to Ocea over patrol boat procurement

The giant Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has mounted a charm offensive to persuade Ghana's navy to buy its patrol boats rather than those of France's Ocea. Accra plans to acquire 8 offshore patrol vessels.

Subscribers only Defence, Business 25.05.2021

Sahel
After Déby's death, last chance mission in N'Djamena to save G5 Sahel

The death of the Chadian president, who had been at the head of the G5 Sahel since February, has left a leadership vacuum. The group's heads of state are expected to meet in N'Djamena on 22 April to convince the Transitional Military Council to hand the presidency to Burkina Faso.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 22.04.2021

Ghana
Investors rush to open refineries and apply for trading licences as gold prices stay high

Thanks to the boom in gold prices, two new gold refineries are set to open in Ghana, while applications for gold trading licences are increasing and local traders are opening companies in Dubai to market their stocks.

Subscribers only Mining 14.04.2021

West Africa
Portuguese-speaking countries discreetly lobby for ECOWAS presidency

Portuguese-speaking countries have been busy behind the scenes trying to get their voices heard in ECOWAS, which is dominated by French- and English-speaking members. The president of Guinea-Bissau has even reached out to foes Alassane Ouattara and Alpha Condé.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 25.03.2021

Bissau-Guinean President Umaro Sissoco Embaló and his Cape Verdean counterpart Jorge Carlos Fonseca, 19 January 2021.

Ghana
Adm Seth Amoama to steer Accra's bid for Security Council seat

With Ghana in the running for a UN Security Council seat, new military chief Seth Amoama has an ace up his sleeve in the game of military diplomacy: his country's blue helmets.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 08.03.2021

Gabon, Ghana
Libreville and Accra win right to vie for UN Security Council seat

Although the Congolese president and current African Union chairperson, Félix [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 04.03.2021

Ghana
Akufo-Addo's Sahelian agenda

The current holder of the ECOWAS rotating chair, Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo, is intending to make the Sahel a central priority of his term at the helm of the regional organisation at a time when jihadist groups are extending their networks into countries lying on the west African coast.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 18.02.2021

President of the Republic of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo.

Ghana
Europeans all in but Russians cold shouldered: Tema LNG's shifting alliances

The construction of Tema's new gas import terminal has brought in its wake a whole galaxy of foreign companies attracted by the opportunities of this future hub.

Subscribers only Energy 17.02.2021

West Africa
From Michael Jackson to Ghana's elite, Nicky Wilson's networks stretch far and wide

The mysterious and influential Togolese businessman Nicky Wilson is close to all of Ghana's decision-makers and knows numerous African presidents.

Subscribers only Business 01.02.2021

Ghana
Akufo-Addo pulls out all the stops to secure AU number two job for Ghana

With Ghana looking set to lose two of its most strategically important posts at the UN and the African Union in 2021, Akufo-Addo is redoubling his efforts to get Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee appointed as deputy chair of the AU Commission.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 28.01.2021

Inner circles | Ghana
How General Obed Akwa is orchestrating Accra's military diplomacy

Ghana's 16,000-strong army has become one of the main levers of Accra's outsized diplomatic influence in Africa and beyond, with nearly 3,000 soldiers deployed across a dozen UN missions. President Nana Akufo-Addo is particularly fond of his country's armed forces and increasingly relies on his Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant General Obed Akwa.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 22.01.2021

Chief of staff of the Ghana Armed Forces Obed Boama Akwa.

Ghana
Foreign minister Botchway, centrepiece of Akufo Addo's ECOWAS chairmanship

Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo's powerful foreign minister for the past four years, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway is to chair a meeting of her ECOWAS colleagues in Mali on 19 January.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 18.01.2021

Ghana
ENI, Tullow and Aker mediate between state giant GNPC and its subsidiary GNGC

Operators active in Ghana could play a decisive role in the state-owned GNPC's battle with its gas branch GNGC over the country's natural gas resources.

Subscribers only Energy 11.12.2020

Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Nana Akufo-Addo

Spotlight | Ghana
Kosmos pulls out all the stops to convince Accra on Oxy

Ghana
Ex-Chamber of Mines boss, Toni Aubynn, takes aim at illegal mining

Africa, Iran
Tehran's secret diplomacy to turn Ebrahim Raisi's swearing in into mini-African summit

Mali
Growing ECOWAS exasperation with wayward Colonel Goita

Inner circles | Ghana
The Cocoa Board, the force powering Ghana's economy

Spotlight | Ghana
ExxonMobil, Aker Energy and ENI fed up with Accra

Mali
ECOWAS leaders to deliberate over Goita's military takeover

Ghana
Fincantieri squares up to Ocea over patrol boat procurement

Sahel
After Déby's death, last chance mission in N'Djamena to save G5 Sahel

Ghana
Investors rush to open refineries and apply for trading licences as gold prices stay high

West Africa
Portuguese-speaking countries discreetly lobby for ECOWAS presidency

Ghana
Adm Seth Amoama to steer Accra's bid for Security Council seat

Gabon, Ghana
Libreville and Accra win right to vie for UN Security Council seat

Ghana
Akufo-Addo's Sahelian agenda

Ghana
Europeans all in but Russians cold shouldered: Tema LNG's shifting alliances

West Africa
From Michael Jackson to Ghana's elite, Nicky Wilson's networks stretch far and wide

Ghana
Akufo-Addo pulls out all the stops to secure AU number two job for Ghana

Inner circles | Ghana
How General Obed Akwa is orchestrating Accra's military diplomacy

Ghana
Foreign minister Botchway, centrepiece of Akufo Addo's ECOWAS chairmanship

Ghana
ENI, Tullow and Aker mediate between state giant GNPC and its subsidiary GNGC

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Senegal Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

West African cocoa cartel battles with the traders

Africa in the Russia-Ukraine war

East Africa's hotly contested coffee sector

Nana Akufo-Addo

Spotlight | Ghana Kosmos pulls out all the stops to convince Accra on Oxy

Ghana Ex-Chamber of Mines boss, Toni Aubynn, takes aim at illegal mining

Africa, Iran Tehran's secret diplomacy to turn Ebrahim Raisi's swearing in into mini-African summit

Mali Growing ECOWAS exasperation with wayward Colonel Goita

Inner circles | Ghana The Cocoa Board, the force powering Ghana's economy

Spotlight | Ghana ExxonMobil, Aker Energy and ENI fed up with Accra

Mali ECOWAS leaders to deliberate over Goita's military takeover

Ghana Fincantieri squares up to Ocea over patrol boat procurement

Sahel After Déby's death, last chance mission in N'Djamena to save G5 Sahel

Ghana Investors rush to open refineries and apply for trading licences as gold prices stay high

West Africa Portuguese-speaking countries discreetly lobby for ECOWAS presidency

Ghana Adm Seth Amoama to steer Accra's bid for Security Council seat

Gabon, Ghana Libreville and Accra win right to vie for UN Security Council seat

Ghana Akufo-Addo's Sahelian agenda

Ghana Europeans all in but Russians cold shouldered: Tema LNG's shifting alliances

West Africa From Michael Jackson to Ghana's elite, Nicky Wilson's networks stretch far and wide

Ghana Akufo-Addo pulls out all the stops to secure AU number two job for Ghana

Inner circles | Ghana How General Obed Akwa is orchestrating Accra's military diplomacy

Ghana Foreign minister Botchway, centrepiece of Akufo Addo's ECOWAS chairmanship

Ghana ENI, Tullow and Aker mediate between state giant GNPC and its subsidiary GNGC

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Spotlight | Ghana
Kosmos pulls out all the stops to convince Accra on Oxy

Ghana
Ex-Chamber of Mines boss, Toni Aubynn, takes aim at illegal mining

Africa, Iran
Tehran's secret diplomacy to turn Ebrahim Raisi's swearing in into mini-African summit

Mali
Growing ECOWAS exasperation with wayward Colonel Goita

Inner circles | Ghana
The Cocoa Board, the force powering Ghana's economy

Spotlight | Ghana
ExxonMobil, Aker Energy and ENI fed up with Accra

Mali
ECOWAS leaders to deliberate over Goita's military takeover

Ghana
Fincantieri squares up to Ocea over patrol boat procurement

Sahel
After Déby's death, last chance mission in N'Djamena to save G5 Sahel

Ghana
Investors rush to open refineries and apply for trading licences as gold prices stay high

West Africa
Portuguese-speaking countries discreetly lobby for ECOWAS presidency

Ghana
Adm Seth Amoama to steer Accra's bid for Security Council seat

Gabon, Ghana
Libreville and Accra win right to vie for UN Security Council seat

Ghana
Akufo-Addo's Sahelian agenda

Ghana
Europeans all in but Russians cold shouldered: Tema LNG's shifting alliances

West Africa
From Michael Jackson to Ghana's elite, Nicky Wilson's networks stretch far and wide

Ghana
Akufo-Addo pulls out all the stops to secure AU number two job for Ghana

Inner circles | Ghana
How General Obed Akwa is orchestrating Accra's military diplomacy

Ghana
Foreign minister Botchway, centrepiece of Akufo Addo's ECOWAS chairmanship

Ghana
ENI, Tullow and Aker mediate between state giant GNPC and its subsidiary GNGC