By Celestine Avi
Singapore, Aug. 26, 2025 – President John Dramani Mahama has unveiled a five-pillar blueprint to strengthen cooperation between Ghana and Singapore, positioning Ghana as Africa’s most reliable gateway for investors seeking scale, innovation, and sustainable growth.
Opening the 8th Africa-Singapore Business Forum as part of his state visit, President Mahama underscored Ghana’s readiness to partner Singapore in building efficient supply chains, modern agribusiness systems, renewable energy solutions, digital services, and value-added industries around critical minerals. He said the collaboration would not only drive trade and investment but also generate jobs, transfer technology, and promote shared prosperity across both regions.
In outlining the first pillar, President John Mahama pointed to the need for efficient and green supply chains that would modernise Ghana’s ports, inland waterways, and cold chain infrastructure. Singapore’s globally respected logistics standards, he noted, could reduce Africa’s trade costs and enhance export competitiveness.
The second area focused on agribusiness and food systems, where Singapore’s technological expertise in irrigation, processing, and packaging could help transform Africa’s vast farmlands into reliable suppliers for global markets including Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.
On clean energy and carbon markets, President Mahama highlighted Ghana’s frameworks for transparency and accountability in carbon trading. He invited Singaporean investors to explore opportunities in renewable energy, waste-to-energy projects, regenerative agriculture, and forestry, which would also contribute to resilience and climate-friendly growth.
The fourth pillar centred on the digital economy and services, with Ghana promoting itself as a hub for e-payments, cybersecurity, digital identification, and smart governance. The country is also developing the capacity to host business process outsourcing and shared-service operations that could provide round-the-clock support for Africa and beyond.
The fifth pillar outlined opportunities in advanced manufacturing and critical minerals. Ghana, endowed with lithium, manganese, graphite, gold, and rare earths, is pursuing a deliberate policy of value addition at home. The strategy is designed to power local industries with clean energy while producing globally competitive battery precursors, components, and downstream manufacturing.
President Mahama stressed that Ghana’s stability, reform-minded governance, and connectivity to the African Continental Free Trade Area make it the ideal entry point for Singaporean businesses into Africa’s US$3.4 trillion market.
The President concluded that deeper Ghana-Singapore cooperation across these five pillars would create jobs for Africa’s youth, diversify global supply chains, and drive sustainable economic growth.
