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...
Eritrea: Woldeab Woldemariam, even after death they tried to silence him
Woldeab Woldemariam, a Visionary Eritrean Patriot, Biography By Dawit Mesfin Now I know why a monument has been erected for Alexander Pushkin, the renowned Russian poet, in...
Etnic backlash may desintegrate South Sudan in ungovernable places
By Peter Adwok Nyaba
The legendary riddle of ‘chicken and egg’ corroborates the current realities of South Sudan civil war, whose effects have rendered irrelevant...
Is nature conservation in Africa ‘a big white lie’
Colorful butterflies flutter in the few rays of sunlight that penetrate the bottom of the humid jungle. At a water hole where two days...