Opinion

Sudan is arguably the unluckiest country on the planet. Perhaps both unlucky and clearly damned. Not many countries have suffered...

In July 2022, BBC Africa Eye released a documentary on gang activity in northwestern Nigeria. The programme, The Bandit Warlords...

Social media has stories of people taking multi-country road trips and sharing their experiences, hospitality across different communities and the...

Kidnapping for ransom has become a national security threat in Nigeria. How it’s done varies from targeted individuals, to indiscriminate...

There was an event that took place at Nairobi's Radisson Blu hotel but missed the attention of both mainstream and...

Sudan stands on the brink of yet another civil war sparked by the deadly confrontation between the Sudan Armed Forces...

In recent months, Kenyan journalists have been harassed, intimidated and attacked by government officials, politicians, and members of the public....

Most folks grow up with certain hard-wired assumptions about the state. Omnipotent. Omnipresent. All-knowing. Cruel. Impenetrable. Permanent. The state is...

Donald Trump has been formally charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records after an investigation into hush money...

A failed state is one that is unable, or unwilling, to perform the basic functions of statehood. In the nomenclature...

Religion shapes some of the most controversial decisions that governments need to make: access to abortion, same-sex marriage, the death...

Election observers keep watch over polls throughout the world. Their job is to support efforts to improve electoral quality and...

For decades, African states have grappled with numerous interstate border disputes, especially in resource-rich regions. In east Africa, most of...

In the run-up to Kenya’s 2022 polls, economic issues, particularly public debt and joblessness, took center stage. The Kenya Kwanza...

In recent years, there’s been a huge, rising demand for donkey hides in China, where they are used to make...

Kenya has new rules for choosing the people who run its elections. President William Ruto has signed into law the...

Undeniable fact is that Africa's G5 Sahel (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger) and Central African Republic (CAR) have...

The start of the 2023 school year in Kenya marks an important occasion: the first cohort of pupils to adopt...

Understandably more than three decades after Soviet collapse, Russia has few well-trained multipolar-oriented specialists and professionals to work seriously on...

It is a sad state of affair to see universities that train professionals cannot exude the same in their operations....

Intern exploitation is a widespread issue that affects young people around the world. An intern is typically a student or...

A member of parliament in Kenyan president William Ruto’s governing coalition created a firestorm by suggesting that there was a...

Conflict and insecurity are prevalent in northern Kenya. In recent weeks, cases of bandit attacks in the region have left...

Barely a month into office, President William Ruto of Kenya ordered the disbandment of a special police unit placed at...

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan survived what supporters described as an assassination attempt on Nov. 3, 2022, as he...

Kenya recently lifted a ban on the cultivation and importation of genetically modified crops amid the worst drought in 40...

People’s responses to large infrastructure projects – railways, bridges, highways – are rarely neutral. To some, these projects represent powerful...

South Africa’s major cities in the Gauteng Province – the country’s economic heartland – are experiencing major water shortages. In...

There are stories of colonialism in the annals of African history, then there is the story of colonialism in Eritrea....

Days before Russian President Vladimir Putin announced hasty referendums in the occupied regions of Ukraine and the conscription of Russian...