Adwoa Adobea-Owusu

For six years, thousands of visa and passport applicants who turned to Ghana’s Embassy in Washington believed they were following standard government processes and paying the right fees. They filled out forms online, paid the service fees and paid extra money to have their documents mailed back to them. In many cases, that was where the official process ended. Some applicants never received their passports. Others waited for months. Unknown to applicants, a different system, which...

Ghana has moved up one place in the 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released by Transparency International, returning to a score of 43 out of 100. With this score, Ghana ranks 76th among 182 countries assessed in the 2025 CPI.