There is no shortage of news from the UK, a major former colonial master in Africa, over whose former empire the sun reputedly never set. We...
The name of the organisation is as opaque as a name can get: World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA). I had never heard of it. And...
Why are the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RPF) engaged in a vicious struggle? It is not that they have ideological,...
Nigerian corporate influence and that of the West continue to collide. The rationale is straightforward: whereas corporate activity in Europe and America is part of their...
The following are stories that have dominated mainstream media in recent times. Fake fertiliser and attempts by powerful politicians to kill the story. A nation of...
The potential contestants in the approaching elections are already sizing themselves up and assessing their chances of fooling their people enough for them to believe that...
On January 27, Kenyan women flooded city streets to protest rising cases of femicide. These were the largest protests ever held against gender-based violence in the...
In an interview with NTV Keny, at the start of the week, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame painted a rather bleak picture of the East African Community...
The conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the future of the giant country, and that of President Felix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa could be dramatically...
When you see the East African Community wobbling around ineffectively and its rules and principles being casually flouted by member states, don’t you get the feeling...