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Floods in Kenya: floodwaters don’t flow freely anymore

Floods in Kenya killed at least 169 people between March and April 2024. And in Tanzania and Burundi lots of life was lost as well. The...

The coming famine in Sudan is a decision by the warring generals

By Hajooj Kuka External communications officer for the Khartoum State Emergency Response Room One year into a devastating war that has killed tens of thousands of...

Why the silence? When will African elites apologise for their role in the slavetrade?

Fort Elmina, Ghana By Yoku Shaw-Taylor “The book Barracoon resolutely records the atrocities African peoples inflicted on each other, long before shackled Africans, traumatized, ill, disoriented, starved, arrived...

Hamdok can save Sudan by forming a government in exile

The military antagonists are meeting in Jeddah, while civilians actors are in Addis Abeba. To make peace in Sudan, Dr. Ahmed Gumaa Siddiek  argues...

“I refused to go back to Rwanda, so they will kill me. It’s not safe here, but it’s not safe anywhere.”

The Rwandan government engages in transnational repression by targeting and eliminating political opponents abroad, as well as intimidating their family members who reside in...

A call for military intervention in Sudan

By Dr. Ahmed Gumaa Siddiek The war that erupted in Sudan on April 15, 2023, has had devastating consequences for the country and its people....

Africa can no longer be lectured

Interview on Africa’s position in the world with Murithi Mutiga, head of programs with the International Crisis Group in Nairobi Africa hardly played a role...

Judges are trying to save Africa from lawlessness and greedy politicians

It is cheaper to buy a judge than to hire a lawyer. That saying has been true since Kenya's independence in 1963, but that...

Life style audits in Kenya a good idea to fight corruption

Lifestyle audits of state/public officers is a great idea. Our political elites are never short of great ideas. In every great idea coming from...

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