The political landscape in South Sudan is heating up as the two front-runners, Salva Kiir Mayardit and Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon, consolidate their power bases in Bahr-el-Ghazal and Upper Nile, respectively. Should it take place, this election will be a historic milestone—the first national ballot vote since South Sudan’s...
By John Kamau As the world commemorates International Fraud Awareness Week this week, it is important to take note of the strides we have made and the challenges that we are still faced with as a country and a region in our fight against corruption. The Eastern Africa region...
Post-war states in Africa are more often than not characterized by long, protracted wrangles and a common failure to live up to peace agreements, regardless of interventions made by both internal and external parties. This is the unfortunate story of South Sudan. The silent unease that characterizes the transient...
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Regardless of what angle you choose to take in trying to explain the recent happenings between Israel and Palestine,...
King Charles has acknowledged the “abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence committed against Kenyans” during their independence struggle. On...
By Maria de Dieu Since his rise to power a year ago, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the newly established leader...
After being re-elected in the disputed August 23, 2023 election, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has formed a cabinet that demonstrates...
Nairobi recently hosted the first-ever Africa Climate Summit, which will act as a precursor to COP28 to be held...
Emmerson Mnangagwa was this weekend declared as reelected to be Zimbabwe’s president. However, the election was highly contentious, with...
Winter during summer, summer during winter…climate change is taking the world on a super roller coaster ride and what...
The political upheaval that unfolded in Niger with the ousting of President Mohamed Bazoum has ignited a firestorm of...
King Charles has acknowledged the “abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence committed against Kenyans” during their independence struggle. On his state visit to Kenya, the King addressed the “wrongdoings” of Britain’s colonial era. He told a state banquet in Nairobi of his “greatest sorrow and regret” and that there...
Nairobi recently hosted the first-ever Africa Climate Summit, which will act as a precursor to COP28 to be held later this year in Dubai. The summit was held to develop an African position ahead of the Dubai summit when it comes to financing climate change mitigation and adaptation. At...
Kenya has seen a deadly wave of street protests over the rising cost of living. The demos that often turned deadly were called by the opposition movement – Azimio Coalition over what they claimed was the government’s high-handedness and insensitivity to the cost of living in the country. While...