Brandon Marc Finn and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah argue that in the DR Congo, industrial mining companies and political elites operate under the banner of decarbonization while perpetuating historic ...

On the Gates Foundation website, Ghanaian programmer Darlington Akogo talks about his mission to reduce the number of deaths in the West African nation, where there’s one doctor per 10,000 patients.

In April of 2023, two factions of the Sudanese armed forces, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), began attacking each other in the capital city of Khartoum ...

Argentina’s President Javier Milei has declared war—not just on the political “caste,” but on the very institutions that safeguard public welfare. In just over a year, he has slashed pensions, gutted ...

During the South Sudan independence celebrations on 9 July 2011 at Freedom Square, next to the John Garang Mausoleum, the unity of purpose and hope for the future was electrifying. One could hardly ...

The streets of Nairobi’s Central Business District are heavy with the smell of tear gas. It is July 11, 2024, and the youth are protesting against corruption and poor governance, the tail end of the ...

There is an oft-circulated photograph of a January 1968 copy of the Daily Nation with the banner headline: GOVT. PLEDGE TO CRUSH CORRUPTION. Above the headline, there is a strap that carries the ...

When Flora Wambeti and her husband James Mungai received news that unknown individuals had sent a breakdown truck to remove a container they had placed on their piece of land in Thika town, they ...

Retrogressive times and events have taken Kenya back to an all-too-familiar phase, sending shivers up the spines of citizens, funny guys, dissidents, and rights defenders. Social media enthusiasts ...

In 2016, AMU Power Company was granted plans to build East Africa’s first ever coal power plant as part of the mega-infrastructure project known as The Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport ...

On a December day in 2013, I witnessed a large group of people carrying firearms, which was a first for me. The group, known as Ng’iraia, had travelled from Southern Turkana to raid Nadome, an area in ...

Since independence, successive Kenyan governments have—even in the worst of times—relied on a few honourable men and women to sustain the civic public. More importantly, these men and women of honour ...