Senior correspondent covering West African politics and business from Lagos, Accra, and Dakar. Amara has over eight years of experience reporting on governance, trade, and economic policy across the ECOWAS region. She previously contributed to Premium Times and The Africa Report, specializing in investigative journalism on public finance and infrastructure development.
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BusinessA $2 billion private infrastructure deal will fund a high-speed rail network across three West African countries, marking the largest private investment in African transport this decade.
PoliticsConfidential financial documents reveal a senior advisor to Ghana's president operated a network of offshore accounts worth $45 million through shell companies in the BVI and Dubai.
OpinionA new African Development Bank report quantifies the continent's housing gap at 56 million units, growing by 4 million annually, with urbanization outpacing construction by a factor of three.