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So, what’s in the bag today?
Economic: Dr. Ato Forson to bondholders: “Relax, we’ve got GH¢20bn on the way.”
National: Looks like Ghana’s passport just made four new besties. Mozambique, Dominica & Co. can now enter without the paperwork wahala.
Crime: Sammy’s drawing the line: no be every rumour you go run your mouth on.
Economic: Ghana’s government just ghosted the dollar harder than your situationship did last December.
Regional: Imagine waking up and finding your entire hustle in the mud.
Fact of the Day: Can you guess how many people in the world are drunk right now?
Regional: Two shootings. One week. Kumasi’s Asawase is starting to feel like a Netflix crime doc.
National: Patricia Appiagyei basically said, “Don’t add me, I didn’t ask for this ECOWAS life.”
QUICK BYTE
Ghana’s finance boss, Dr. Ato Forson, just did the budget version of “I swear on my mum’s life” to assure bondholders that Ghana won’t ghost them. Man stood in Parliament and basically said, “We will pay ooo.” First half of the year, GH¢9.8 billion went out like rent money. Second half? Another GH¢10.2 billion is coming.
The man is on his “financially faithful” arc. After last year’s DDEP stress and everyone checking their bond statements like suspicious girlfriends, Forson is saying, “Baby, it’s you. I choose you. We’re paying everything. Read more
Imagine waking up and finding your entire hustle, cocoa trees, cassava mounds, and even your goats literally in the mud. That's the heartbreaking reality in Santrokofi, a farming community in the Oti Region, where a brutal landslide hit on July 10 after heavy rainfall decided to go WWE on their mountainside. Get the full deets in the Deep Dive section.
Sammy Gyamfi, CEO of the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod), has taken Afia Schwarzenegger to court over what he describes as false, malicious, and calculated attacks on his name. According to Gyamfi, Afia allegedly claimed he was splashing big money on UG side chicks, cars, properties, the full sugar-daddy starter pack. She even threw in some U.S. property tea involving his wife and a so-called sister-in-law named Vida. But Gyamfi clapped back:
No girlfriends at UG
No cars or houses bought
No Vida anywhere in the family WhatsApp group. Read more
Ghana just told four countries, “No visa, no problem.” If you’re from Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Colombia, or the Commonwealth of Dominica and you’re holding a diplomatic, service or even ordinary passport welcome, come inside. No stamp drama. No visa queues. Just vibes and bilateral bromance. Read more
FACT OF THE DAY
At any point in time, 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.
As you are reading this, 50 million people are drunk!
Ei. Another man has been gunned down in Asawase, and the plot is thicker than your auntie’s groundnut soup. Just days after a Kusasi chief was shot at home, unknown riders on a motorbike pulled up and shot a man dead, twice, just as he was entering his pickup after eating at a food joint. Nobody knows if the two cases are linked, but Asawase residents are now on full “eyes open” mode. Read more
You walk into a chop bar and the woman says, “₵150 or $10, choose your fighter.” Wild, right? That’s basically been Ghana’s economy lately, everything from school fees to rent to that plot of land you’ll never build on has been priced in dollars. Like bro, where are we? But Ato Forson said “not on my watch.” Going forward, No more contracts awarded in USD. Not from ministries, not from agencies, not even if the money’s coming from overseas. From now on, it’s local vibes only. Read more
Parliament tried to swap out Minority Leader Afenyo-Markin from the ECOWAS Parliament crew and slide Patricia Appiagyei into the mix. But she was like, pause. First of all, no one told her. Secondly, she said this whole replacement stunt smells a little off. She made it crystal clear in her memo: there was an understanding that Afenyo-Markin was staying on the ECOWAS delegation. Dude has a four-year term, he hasn’t resigned, and nobody fired him. So… why the sudden change? Patricia’s not buying the plot twist. She’s not here to be used as the poster child for “Look! Gender inclusion!” if it means trampling over process. Read more
DEEP DIVE
Hustle in the mud
For context: the Tondza mountain range didn't just shed some soil. It went full disaster-mode, five sections gave way, washing away hectares of farmland, endangered trees, and anything that dared to stand in its way. Some farms are now buried under four feet of sand. That's like trying to find your harvest under a beach.
One farmer, Enoch, said they only realised the damage when folks sleeping on their farms called in with “the road is gone” vibes. Dzidzor, another farmer, returned days later to find her plantains, cassava and pineapples wiped clean, left with just a 10m² plot and a few cassava tubers to feed her grandkids. Brutal.
And it didn’t spare the OGs either. Simon lost his 15-year-old cocoa farm and his palm wine stash (yes, even the palm wine cried that day).
Now there's talk of looming famine. Locals say this is the biggest agricultural loss since the infamous 1983 drought.
Pascal from ARDO (the Accelerated Rural Development Organisation) stepped in to assess the mess and didn’t mince words: “Climate change did this.” He threw shade at global carbon emitters and asked the government and international orgs to step up, fund recovery efforts, and give farmers a fighting chance. Read more
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