Faced with increasing pressure on urban mobility, the Ghana is accelerating the strengthening of its public transport. The Minister of Transports, Dorcas Affo-Toffey, has announced the reception next March of 100 new buses for the public company Metro Mass Transit (MMT). This delivery is part of a larger program involving the acquisition of over 300 buses by the end of the year.

The objective is clear: to restore capacity to a operator weakened by years of operational constraints. Fleet aging, spare parts shortages and maintenance difficulties have progressively reduced MMT's capacity to meet urban demand by strong expansion.

In November 2024, a first batch of 100 electric buses had already been received. But this effort proved to be insufficient in view of of the extent of the needs. According to statements relayed by the Vice President of Ghana, the company's operational park would have passed from around 1,000 buses to nearly 400 in a few years, illustrating erosion structural structure of the public tool.

In this context, urban transport is largely based on the private sector. In and around Accra, the “Trotro” minibuses, classic taxis and VTC platforms like Bolt, Yango and Uber ensure most of the trips. This fragmentation of supply contributes to chronic congestion on the axes connecting Accra to Tema, with impacts significant economic and environmental impacts.

Beyond the immediate response by increasing the fleet of buses, the ambitions of structural transformation of the transport system remain pending. Under the presidency of Nana Akufo-Addo, a program A 4,000-kilometer railway had been announced, including links strategies to Burkina Faso in order to strengthen logistical competitiveness from the port of Tema. To date, nearly 75% of this network is still in build.

Between urban emergency and long-term vision, Ghana is thus trying to reconcile the immediate modernization of public transport and profound restructuring of its national mobility system.