For generations, millions of people have grown up looking at a world map that gives them a badly distorted idea of how large Africa actually is. The familiar Mercator map of Africa is part of the reason. Africa has an area of roughly 30.37 million square kilometers. Greenland is only about 2.17 million square kilometers. […]
Waste management in Ghana is handled through a mixture of household collection, private waste companies, municipal services, transfer stations, recycling facilities, public dumping sites and landfills. The system works considerably better in parts of major cities than it does in many rural and lower-income communities, but large amounts of waste are still burned, dumped in […]
Ghana has taken another step toward rebuilding its domestic poultry industry, with the 24-Hour Economy and Accelerated Export Development Secretariat and four investment partners signing Heads of Terms for a proposed US$270 million National Poultry Transformation Programme. The headline number is the projected creation of 12,000 direct jobs. But the plan goes much further than […]
Telecel Ghana has launched SME Month 2026, opening a month of free training, business support, digital tools, networking and growth opportunities for entrepreneurs across Ghana. The September campaign is being run under the theme “Connect to Growth: Unlock More.” This year’s focus is particularly practical: helping existing small businesses and early-stage entrepreneurs improve the way […]
Ghana has approved a major rewrite of its customs framework. President John Dramani Mahama assented to the Ghana Customs Act 2026 on August 26, 2026, after Parliament passed the underlying Customs Bill in late July. The simplest way to understand what happened is this: Ghana has spent years operating under the Customs Act, 2015 and […]
Ghana recorded more than half a million passenger arrivals during the first five months of 2026, adding another positive indicator to a year in which travel, international trade and several other measures of economic activity have strengthened. According to the Bank of Ghana’s July 2026 Monetary Policy Report, 515,530 passenger arrivals were recorded between January […]
President John Dramani Mahama signed 10 bills into law on August 26, 2026, in one of the broadest single legislative packages of his current administration. The measures cover cocoa-sector reform, customs administration, income tax, VAT, excise duties, energy-sector levies, community service, Regional Tribunals, maritime offenses and the legal establishment of the National Defence University. If […]
Ghana’s temporary shutdown of its Embassy in Washington, D.C., in May 2025 has developed into a much larger financial and administrative scandal after a special audit by Ghana’s Auditor-General put the estimated irregularities at approximately US$19.38 million. The audit examined operations at the Embassy from January 2017 through June 2025 and investigated visa and passport […]
Anyone trying to buy gold in Ghana legally now has another rule to understand. Beginning September 1, 2026, the Ghana Gold Board, commonly called GoldBod, is making X-Ray Fluorescence testing the standard basis for determining the purity of gold dore purchased by GoldBod and its licensed buyers. The change is more important than it sounds. […]
The United States is moving to revoke certain nonimmigrant visas held by foreign nationals who entered or sought entry as temporary visitors and subsequently applied for asylum in the United States. The developing policy is particularly relevant to holders of B-1 and B-2 visitor visas, the categories commonly used for temporary business and tourism travel. […]
Ghana Citizenship Team
