Ghana’s Supreme Court on April 29 unanimously upheld a five-year voting ban for people convicted of electoral offenses, ruling that Parliament may restrict the constitutional right to vote beyond the limits written into the Constitution, 1992. The decision in Fred Akweter v. Attorney General & Electoral Commission rejected a challenge by Akweter, a Ghanaian lawyer, [...]
No amount of money can pay for slavery and colonialism—and offering it, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. argues, is itself an insult. That was the premise the Ghanaian journalist and Pan-Africanist—widely known as “Comrade Kwesi Pratt”—brought to the University of Cape Coast’s Faculty of Law this month in a public lecture on reparations for the transatlantic slave [...]
“Justice delayed is justice denied” is more than a familiar maxim. It is a lived reality for countless clients navigating the courts today. In Ghana, the backlog of cases and procedural delays have become defining features of the justice system, eroding public confidence and placing heavy burdens on litigants. For clients, these delays translate into [...]
Violence against children and other persons in Nigeria has become one of the most pressing human rights concerns in West Africa. From the attacks by Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in the North-East to clashes in the Middle Belt involving armed gangs, the toll on lives, livelihoods, and religious freedom [...]
Editor’s Note: This explainer is published ahead of the November 12, 2025 Supreme Court hearing on the constitutionality of Ghana’s deportation agreement with the United States. In mid-2025, Ghana entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Repatriation and Temporary Hosting of West African Nationals with the US, to accept deportees and host certain West [...]
Ghana’s bodies of water are being poisoned by mercury and cyanide. Babies are being born with severe health conditions. And now a chorus of voices is demanding the president invoke emergency powers to stop it. The culprit is galamsey—a local term for illegal small-scale mining that has transformed fertile farmland and pristine rivers across Ghana [...]
