Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Communications Minister nominee
Last week, Ghana’s general public were taken by complete surprise by the revelation to Parliament by Minister-designate for Communications and Digitalization, Ursula Owusu-Ekunful, that the majority shareholders of AirtelTigo have decided to disinvest from their Ghana operations, less than four years after a merger between the erstwhile Airtel Ghana and Tigo Ghana had created a single entity with the second largest market share in the country’s telecommunications industry. Now Ghana faces one of the biggest disinvestments since it liberalized its economy back in the mid 1980s and subsequently evolved into one of the most attractive destinations for foreign direct investment in Africa.