The tragic incident of mass "starvation suicide" in Shakahola, a secluded village in eastern Kenya near the popular tourist destination...
Read moreBarely seven months after leaving office, Kenya’s former president Uhuru Kenyatta is battling to keep together the party that won...
Read moreThere are close to 4 million people living in refugee camps across Africa. Of the more than 300 camps, nearly...
Read moreSudan is arguably the unluckiest country on the planet. Perhaps both unlucky and clearly damned. Not many countries have suffered...
Read moreIn July 2022, BBC Africa Eye released a documentary on gang activity in northwestern Nigeria. The programme, The Bandit Warlords...
Read moreSocial media has stories of people taking multi-country road trips and sharing their experiences, hospitality across different communities and the...
Read moreKidnapping for ransom has become a national security threat in Nigeria. How it’s done varies from targeted individuals, to indiscriminate...
Read moreThere was an event that took place at Nairobi's Radisson Blu hotel but missed the attention of both mainstream and...
Read moreSudan stands on the brink of yet another civil war sparked by the deadly confrontation between the Sudan Armed Forces...
Read moreIn recent months, Kenyan journalists have been harassed, intimidated and attacked by government officials, politicians, and members of the public....
Read moreMost folks grow up with certain hard-wired assumptions about the state. Omnipotent. Omnipresent. All-knowing. Cruel. Impenetrable. Permanent. The state is...
Read moreDonald Trump has been formally charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records after an investigation into hush money...
Read moreA failed state is one that is unable, or unwilling, to perform the basic functions of statehood. In the nomenclature...
Read moreReligion shapes some of the most controversial decisions that governments need to make: access to abortion, same-sex marriage, the death...
Read moreElection observers keep watch over polls throughout the world. Their job is to support efforts to improve electoral quality and...
Read moreFor decades, African states have grappled with numerous interstate border disputes, especially in resource-rich regions. In east Africa, most of...
Read moreIn the run-up to Kenya’s 2022 polls, economic issues, particularly public debt and joblessness, took center stage. The Kenya Kwanza...
Read moreIn recent years, there’s been a huge, rising demand for donkey hides in China, where they are used to make...
Read moreKenya has new rules for choosing the people who run its elections. President William Ruto has signed into law the...
Read moreUndeniable fact is that Africa's G5 Sahel (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger) and Central African Republic (CAR) have...
Read moreThe start of the 2023 school year in Kenya marks an important occasion: the first cohort of pupils to adopt...
Read moreUnderstandably more than three decades after Soviet collapse, Russia has few well-trained multipolar-oriented specialists and professionals to work seriously on...
Read moreIt is a sad state of affair to see universities that train professionals cannot exude the same in their operations....
Read moreIntern exploitation is a widespread issue that affects young people around the world. An intern is typically a student or...
Read moreA member of parliament in Kenyan president William Ruto’s governing coalition created a firestorm by suggesting that there was a...
Read moreConflict and insecurity are prevalent in northern Kenya. In recent weeks, cases of bandit attacks in the region have left...
Read moreBarely a month into office, President William Ruto of Kenya ordered the disbandment of a special police unit placed at...
Read morePakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan survived what supporters described as an assassination attempt on Nov. 3, 2022, as he...
Read moreKenya recently lifted a ban on the cultivation and importation of genetically modified crops amid the worst drought in 40...
Read morePeople’s responses to large infrastructure projects – railways, bridges, highways – are rarely neutral. To some, these projects represent powerful...
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