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We are here: In memory of Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo

“Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a pre...

© Worker cleaning Kenya’s court of arms at Treasury Building during the budget reading 2020/2021./SOPAIMAGES

More or less borrowing?

Premium badgeFive questions on Kenya’s new debt policy As Kenya prepares to table the final budget for the upcoming fiscal year beginning next July, there are adjacent hasty plans to get parliament to chan...
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Dissenting voices

Kenya: Rebellion rocks ruling party over mandatory housing levy One resignation and open defiance by some ruling United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party MPs show cracks in President William Ruto’s proposal to increa...
© File photo of a Turkana warrior with cattle approaching a settlement in Ilemi Triangle, Kenya (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)

CENTURY-OLD PROBLEM

Premium badgeUganda – Kenya: Museveni gets tough on ngiTurkana rustlers Always positioning himself as a pan-Africanist, Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has been reluctant to take a tough stance against neighbouring countr...

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© Worker cleaning Kenya’s court of arms at Treasury Building during the budget reading 2020/2021./SOPAIMAGES

More or less borrowing?

Premium badgeFive questions on Kenya’s new debt policy As Kenya prepares to table the final budget for the upcoming fiscal year beginning next July, there are adjacent hasty plans to get parliament to chan...
© File photo of a Turkana warrior with cattle approaching a settlement in Ilemi Triangle, Kenya (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)

CENTURY-OLD PROBLEM

Premium badgeUganda – Kenya: Museveni gets tough on ngiTurkana rustlers Always positioning himself as a pan-Africanist, Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has been reluctant to take a tough stance against neighbouring countr...
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‘Africa led by Africans’

Premium badgeDow’s Sami Mainich places trust in African talents Since being appointed president of Dow’s Africa operations in late February, Sami Mainich has been on the lookout for partnership opportunities across...

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© Worker cleaning Kenya’s court of arms at Treasury Building during the budget reading 2020/2021./SOPAIMAGES

More or less borrowing?

Premium badgeFive questions on Kenya’s new debt policy As Kenya prepares to table the final budget for the upcoming fiscal year beginning next July, there are adjacent hasty plans to get parliament to chan...
© File photo of a Turkana warrior with cattle approaching a settlement in Ilemi Triangle, Kenya (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)

CENTURY-OLD PROBLEM

Premium badgeUganda – Kenya: Museveni gets tough on ngiTurkana rustlers Always positioning himself as a pan-Africanist, Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has been reluctant to take a tough stance against neighbouring countr...
© Sami Mainich (photo: supplied)

‘Africa led by Africans’

Premium badgeDow’s Sami Mainich places trust in African talents Since being appointed president of Dow’s Africa operations in late February, Sami Mainich has been on the lookout for partnership opportunities across...

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© Sami Mainich (photo: supplied)

‘Africa led by Africans’

Premium badgeDow’s Sami Mainich places trust in African talents Since being appointed president of Dow’s Africa operations in late February, Sami Mainich has been on the lookout for partnership opportunities across...
© Genetically engineered maize. (Photo by CRISTINA PEDRAZZINI / CPD / Science Photo Library via AFP)

future crops?

Blow to Kenya-US negotiations on GMO crops as Court of Appeal upholds ban Kenya’s Agricultural lobby groups have applauded last week’s Court of Appeal ruling that will stop the government from importing Genetically Modified ...
© At the Transform Africa summit in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, heads of state and policymakers discussed ways to ensure connectivity for the African continent. (Transform Africa)

political will

Premium badgeRwanda, Malawi, Zimbabwe…Ensuring connectivity on the African continent Connecting rural areas of the African continent to the IT grid and ensuring they will have access to services and care was a hot topic at the Transfor...
Workers are seen at Tullow Oil’s Ngamia 8 drilling site in Lokichar © Workers at Tullow Oil’s Ngamia 8 drilling site in Lokichar, Turkana County, Kenya, February 8, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Holding the Baby

Premium badgeKenya: Tullow partner pullout at South Lokichar highlights stranded fossil assets risk The decision by TotalEnergies and Africa Oil to withdraw from the South Lokichar oil project in Kenya shows the risk that new fossil-fuel investments ...
© Farmer Joseph Mhlanga stands over a pile of maize or corn cobs in his modest house at Malakata village, about 10 miles (16 km) from the Zambian capital Lusaka, June 20, 2011. Zambia is expected to have a crop over 3 million tonnes of maize, its life-blood crop, for its 2010/11 season compared to 2.8 million tonnes last year. Picture taken June 20, 2011. To match Feature ZAMBIA-AGRICULTURE/ REUTERS

regional deficit

Premium badgeZambia: Benchmark maize price raised to deter smuggling In an attempt to ward off soaring corn demand from countries in southern and East Africa, the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has raised by 51% its purchase...
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raising eyebrows

Kenya: Ruto accused of ‘tribal and political’ bias in state appointments President William Ruto is facing heavy criticism from the opposition and a certain religious leaders, who accuse him of ethnic favouritism and rewardi...