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By Nelson Ayivor Experts from various disciplines in Ghana and Germany have expressed concern about the increasing impact of climate change on communities, particularly those in flood-prone areas. Drawing lessons from the experiences of communities such as Mepe in the North Tongu District and Agbozume and Agavedzi both in the Ketu South Municipality, that have previously suffered severe flooding, the experts have developed a knowledge-based framework aimed at building resilient communities and improving flood risk management. The initiative, dubbed “Building Resilient Communities through the Integration of Climate Adaptation with the Sustainable Development Goals for University Education and Research (BRIDGE),” seeks…

The Duamenefa Foundation in collaborations with Tanko Foundation and other supporters began their annual covenant keeping humanitarian outreach program in line with the gospel according to Mathew chapter 25: 35, this morning, to nine selected hospitals and orphanages, bringing meals, prayers, and encouragement to patients and healthcare workers. The outreach sponsored by His Excellency, Dr. Gabriel Kwamigah Atokple Tanko – Togbi Nyaxordeakorla I, Founder and CEO of Tanko Foundation and Mr. Emmanuel Ketaman Evortepe, the Executive President of the Duamenefa Foundation and CEO of Fafaa 100. 3 Fm, with supports from Dr. Attipoe Joseph, the deputy president of the Duamenefa…

By Nelson Ayivor The government is taking decisive steps to stabilize the cocoa sector by transferring the Cocoa Board’s legacy debt to the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Ghana. The move, disclosed by the Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, aims to restore positive equity and reinforce the Board’s balance sheet, paving the way for broader reforms and a new financing model. Cabinet has directed the Finance Minister to seek parliamentary approval for the transfer of approximately 5.8 billion Ghana cedis in inherited debt. This includes 3.7 billion cedis arising from non-marketable cocoa bills converted into loans, as…

President Mahama’s Cabinet convened an emergency session on Wednesday to confront a deepening crisis in the cocoa sector, with Ghana’s beans now unsellable on the world market and the state marketing board effectively held hostage by a failed financing model, the Africa Confidential can reveal. At the heart of the malaise: COCOBOD cannot afford to hold its own crop. With buyers walking away because Ghana’s producer price is no longer competitive, and liquidity so constrained that stock-holding for hedging is impossible, the industry now faces its most perilous season in decades. The 2025/26 crop year began in August with a…

Opts for Equity and Partnership, as CEO Sells Mahama’s Vision at Indaba The Minerals Income Investment Fund has completed its most assertive Indaba campaign to date, deploying its chief executive, board members and sector minister in a coordinated offensive to reposition the Fund from passive royalty collector to active co-investor.Across three days of high-level engagements, MIIF delivered a consistent and deliberately provocative message: the old extractive compact is dead. What remains contested is who assumes the risk of building what comes next.DAY ONE: STREAMING TALKS AND SOCIAL LICENCEThe Fund opened Monday with chief executive Justina Nelson leading term sheet discussions with…

Pianim, Jonah, Dufuor, Yamson, Afede Features in Economic Rescue SquadBy Prince Ahenkorah President John Dramani Mahama has turned to a clutch of seasoned technocrats, retired central bankers, and corporate heavyweights to navigate Ghana’s turbulent economic waters.The 12-member Presidential Advisory Group on the Economy, unveiled on Wednesday, reads like a who’s who of the country’s finance and policy establishment. Its mandate: diagnose the structural weaknesses, prescribe remedies, and perhaps most critically lend credibility to a government searching for a coherent recovery narrative.Vice President Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang sits on the committee, her presence signalling that this is no ornamental talking shop.…

The NPP Organiser Race Threatens to Consume Its Own By Gifty Boateng The New Patriotic Party’s impending national organiser contest is shaping up as a high-stakes elimination bout not between rival flagbearer camps, but within the house of Dr Mahamudu Bawumia himself.At least five declared aspirants, all bearing the 2028 presidential candidate’s political imprimatur, are preparing to slug it out for the party’s crucial mobilisation machinery. Incumbent Henry Nana Boakye is vacating the slot after a single term, seeking elevation to first national vice-chair.What should signal orderly succession is instead shaping up as fratricide.THE CONTENDERSDaniel Nii Kwatei Titus Glover arrives…

-Gov’t Races To Quell Farmer Revolt-Finance Minister to unveil emergency rescue package amid payment backlog, syndicated loan distressGhana’s cocoa sector is sliding towards its most severe liquidity crisis in a decade, forcing Cabinet into emergency session and setting the stage for a high-stakes national address by Finance Minister Dr Cassiel Ato Forson Today, February 13th 2026.The minister is expected to announce an immediate intervention to clear unpaid farmer deliveries dating back to late 2025, alongside what officials describe as “comprehensive restructuring” of the debt-burdened Ghana Cocoa Board.Government Communications Minister Felix Kwakye Ofosu confirmed Tuesday night that Cabinet had concluded lengthy…

By Gifty Boateng Charles Nii Armah Mensah, better known as Shatta Wale, has thrown his weight and his wallet behind the government’s embattled poultry initiative, handing President John Dramani Mahama a publicity coup his ‘Nkonko Nketenkete’ programme badly needed.The dancehall star, who commands arguably the largest fan base in the country, paid a courtesy call on Gomoa Central MP Kwame Asare Obeng ‘A Plus’ to his fans at the constituency’s special economic zone headquarters, housed for now at Accra’s Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel. His message: he is officially in for poultry and meat processing.”Nkoko Nketenkete by H.E. John Dramani Mahama is…

—but only the suits need applyBy PrInce Ahenkorah NACOC, Ghana’s Narcotics regulator is moving to turn a formerly illicit plant into a licit commodity, unveiling a licensing regime for low-THC cannabis cultivation aimed squarely at industrialists and pharmaceutical players not farmers with ancestral claims to the crop.The Narcotics Control Commission will begin issuing permits for the growing and processing of cannabis containing no more than 0.3% tetrahydrocannabinol, following parliamentary approval of a tightly circumscribed regulatory framework. The plant, known locally as ‘Ntampe’ and long associated with underground use, is being formally rebranded as an economic asset.But officials are taking pains…