Economic inclusion of women is good for business, good for Africa

With nearly two million young Ghanaians estimated to be outside employment, education or training, the question is increasingly shifting from how many young people can be educated to whether education can translate into jobs, productivity and sustainable livelihoods.

Absa Bank Ghana LTD’s InspireME 2026 conference brought together women entrepreneurs, business leaders and professionals to explore business growth, innovation, access to opportunities and sustainable enterprise development.

The Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF) has called for stronger cyber resilience across Ghana’s mining sector, stressing that the protection of Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) is critical to ensuring safe, secure and sustainable mining operations.

Asharami Ghana has inaugurated a 6,000-metric-tonne Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) storage facility at the Tema Oil Jetty, expanding Ghana's LPG storage capacity by approximately 10 per cent and strengthening efforts to improve energy security and access to cleaner cooking fuel.

Traditional leaders in the Nzema area have called on the government to ensure that the planned revival of Adamus Resources Limited translates into jobs, investment and improved livelihoods for communities in the mining area.

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has urged fintech companies to move beyond expanding access to digital wallets and focus on increasing their actual use for payments, as SaoPay begins operations as a new Dedicated Electronic Money Issuer (DEMI).

Ghana’s annual inflation rate rose to 5.2 percent for September 2026 from 5 percent in August, with locally produced goods and services causing the bulk of price pressures.

Ghana is seeking to attract more private capital into biotechnology by making regulatory processes clearer and more predictable, as government positions the sector to support projects in healthcare, agriculture and industrial production.