Tag: Ghana
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🇲🇦 Société Générale Ghana Changes Hands as Moroccan Banking Giant Attijariwafa Bank Takes Control
Morocco’s Attijariwafa Bank is set to become the majority shareholder of Société Générale Ghana after acquiring 55.22% of the bank, while Ghana’s SSNIT increases its stake to 24.36%. The transaction marks a major shift in Ghanaian banking ownership and strengthens financial links between North and West Africa.
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🇬🇭 World Bank Targets Fivefold Increase in Critical Minerals Financing as Ghana Emerges in Global Supply-Chain Strategy
For Ghana, the opportunity is potentially significant—but the strategic objective should extend beyond digging minerals out of the ground. The central question for the next five years may be whether Africa can use the new wave of critical-minerals investment to build industries around its resources, rather than simply supplying the resources to industries elsewhere.
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🇺🇸 ONE Data Launches Free AI Tool to Track Africa’s Development Finance
ONE Data has launched a free AI-powered Development Finance Observatory designed to help journalists and researchers trace aid, government budgets and debt figures back to their original sources.
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🇬🇭 When Ghanaian Students Challenged Black American Visitors on Slavery and Servitude
In 1968, three Black American teenagers visiting Ghana to reconnect with their African roots became involved in a heated exchange with students at Mfantsipim School in Cape Coast. Their disagreement over slavery, domestic service, and historical experience revealed the complexity of African-diaspora relations—and why genuine cultural reconnection requires humility, listening, and respect for different histories.
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🇸🇱 BOLLE JOS: THE DUTCH COCAINE KINGPIN AND THE SIERRA LEONE CONNECTION
A detailed intelligence map documenting major cocaine incidents and reported network connections across West Africa associated with the Bolle Jos case, tracing the reported Sierra Leone presence, regional seizures, and trafficking corridors toward Europe.
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🇬🇭 Ghana Deploys Military Engineers to Restore Tano Nimri Forest Reserve After Galamsey Damage
Ghana has begun restoring 50 hectares of the Tano Nimri Forest Reserve degraded by illegal mining, bringing together GoldBod, the Ghana Armed Forces and the Forestry Commission in one of the country’s most significant forest-reclamation initiatives.
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🇿🇦 Minority Raises Questions Over GH¢16.4 Million South Africa Evacuation Figures
Minority Raises Questions Over GH¢16.4 Million South Africa Evacuation Figures
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🇬🇭 B2B Trade Could Become Africa’s Next Stablecoin Frontier
Stablecoins could become a major settlement tool for African businesses, with B2B trade potentially overtaking remittances as a key driver of adoption. GSN chief Ryan Kirkley says FX liquidity, correspondent banking and regulation will determine whether digital dollars can deliver real savings.
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🇬🇧 UK Welcomes Airtel Money’s London Stock Exchange Debut
Airtel Money has begun conditional trading on the London Stock Exchange at a valuation of approximately £5.3 billion, marking a major milestone for Africa’s digital financial services sector and strengthening London’s position as a gateway for African-focused investment.
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🇬🇭 Ghana’s Gold Rush: Who Pays the Price for Mineral Wealth?
Ghana’s Birim Valley sits at the intersection of mineral wealth, livelihoods and environmental pressure. From diamonds to gold, informal and illegal mining — widely known as galamsey — provides income for communities while raising serious concerns about land degradation, water pollution and mineral smuggling. Ghana now faces the challenge of building a formal, traceable and…