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PM Abiy Ahmed is prioritising grand projects designed to attract foreign direct investment to Ethiop...
Looting art in times of wars was not new. What made European colonial looting distinctive, though, w...
While creating space for self-reflection, it also gives voice to voiceless communities and concerns...
The outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern by the Africa Centres f...
Africa needs a concerted approach towards China and all of its so-called strategic partnerships. The...
There doesn’t appear to be an end to the conflict any time soon. Various efforts to hold peace talks...
No cases of paralytic polio have been reported in Gaza. But detecting the virus in wastewater is con...
In addition, children in any outbreak setting are already vulnerable given their immature and still-...
Local governments recognise the significance of migrants’ contributions. In an era of fiscal constra...
Kenya’s maize production between 2020 and 2022 averaged almost 3.4 million tonnes per year. To meet...
Since July 2024, cases of Clade Ib, linked (in the way it emerged and spread) to the outbreak in the...
The proposed vote follows years of delays: An election was due to take place in 2015 but was postpon...
Walking back the tax bill hasn’t solved Kenya’s problems, and on Aug. 19, Kenya’s new finance minist...
Africa’s experience of the UN system over the past 80 years has been one of misrepresentation and un...
The WHO has now declared the current upsurge of mpox in central Africa a public health emergency of...
Hong Kong is a prime example of effective land value management. It is often cited as a case study.
The process can be lengthy and complicated. However, as Kenya is a democracy, those who believe that...
Given the dire humanitarian conditions of the displaced and local populations, the truce is a most w...
Kipyegon is a shining example of Kenya’s global dominance in distance running.
Wycliffe W. Njororai Simiyu, a Professor and Chair of Kinesiology and Health Science at Stephen F. A...
Ruto on Wednesday while announcing his second batch of Cabinet nominees, picked John Mbadi, an ODM n...
The only vaccine against tuberculosis, the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, is more than 100...
Digital inequality in Kenya’s pastoralist communities is rooted in longstanding socio-political and...
The daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica, Harris began her career as a prosecutor, spending...
The DRC’s military spending had the highest increase in the world in 2023. Its US$794 million spendi...
Kenya’s conservationists face a monumental task: how to conserve a public good on privately owned la...
There is also a high risk of famine in multiple regions if immediate action is not taken. Famine is...
The Finance Bill, which Ruto has put on hold, was the trigger for the recent protests. But its roots...
The tough conditions attached to IMF financing have led the citizens of Kenya and other African coun...
This approach is informed by the fact that law enforcement bodies continue to do the bidding of the...
The proposed taxes would have been mostly felt by poor and working-class people, as they would have...
The police responded with force, using live bullets and lobbing teargas at protesters. More than a d...
The right to protest consists of a group of rights guaranteed by both domestic and international law...
This is the fourth most common cancer among women, claiming an estimated 350,000 lives globally in 2...
Digital activism enabled fast mobilisation of support, bridged gaps between diverse groups, and it h...
South Africa’s seventh general election since democracy in 1994, set for May 29, 2024, takes place u...
The governments of Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, South Sudan and Uganda, and three United Nations agenc...
As fish stocks delcine, some former fishermen, in collaboration with militias and unemployed youth,...
Instead of forcibly evicting communities that have already experienced great hardship, if the govern...
Amid diplomatic manoeuvres in the push for an end to the Israel-Palestine conflict, Middle East expe...
Death and destruction have occurred in several parts, a stark reminder of the persistent failure to...
The long-awaited RTS,S malaria vaccine vaccine was described as a breakthrough for science, child he...
In 2011 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who was then Turkey’s prime minister, became the first non-African lea...
The government accused Rusesabagina of supporting anti-Rwanda groups. He was charged with terrorism,...
Banks offer a gateway into the financial system. Once the funds are in the financial system, it is e...
Being on the grey list is typically seen as an indictment of a country’s ability to identify and eff...
In the last few months of 2023, the rainy season was much wetter than normal, bringing severe floodi...
