If Africa lags behind in the fight against corona, it will give mutations of the virus a tailwind
“Without a job, you die here” says Martin Maina (38) in the Kibera slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. Leaning against the earthen wall...
COVID-19: The 1 to 9 Dilemmas facing Africans
The Corona Virus Disease 2019 better known as COVID-19, finally landed in Africa. This is after its debut in China, brief and deadly sojourn...
Epidemics are never far away in Africa
Sierra Leone 2014"Have any rats been spotted here?", Dr. Lendunga asked the residents and pointed to a grove of banana trees and a smelly...
Eritrea shows off its military hardware
By Asmarino.com 25 years ago the controversial National Service Programme was launched. That was reason for the Eritrean regime of president Issaias Aferworki to show...
If elections changed anything, they would have abolished them
A scholarly piece by Kenyan JUSTICE (RTD) WILLY MUTUNGA AT THE MALAWI LAW SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE, NKOPOLA, MANGOCHI, MALAWI, 22ND FEBRUARY 2019. AFRICA’S ELECTORAL CONDITION:...
How foreign aid has become unwanted
Photo Petterik Wiggers Immediately upon arrival in the South Sudanese capital Juba, the sight of white relief workers is overwhelming. At the airport there are...
The difficulty of South Sudan’s transition to statehood
By Peter Adwok Nyaba South Sudan has gone from Arab to Dinka domination. The dire situation may vindicate those who had doubted the ability of...
Hands off the Judiciary! Will the Kenyan elite ever grow up?
By Willy Mutunga, Former Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court The Kenyan elite and its variants in the political, corporate (licit and illicit),...
How fear and violence became part of elections in Kenya
Women of the Nandi and the Luo no longer want to wash their clothes together in the River of Lions, the river dividing their...
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