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On Dennis Pritt Road in Nairobi’s Kilimani district, long queues formed outside the Burundian embassy on 7 September. People were waiting for laissez-passers, temporary travel documents enabling them to return home without valid passports. The embassy had offered to issue them free of charge…
On 21 August, armed men entered a mosque in Dekara village in Niger State while Friday prayers were underway. At around the same time, nearby settlements were also raided. A few days later, a video circulated on social media showing hundreds of people, including women, children and elderly people…
By the time Nigeria puts together all of the policies needed to regulate artificial intelligence, elements of the technology might have already been implemented. In May, Nigeria’s federal government unveiled an open-access, multilingual voice and text assistant called GovGuide Nigeria, built by…
Since 2023, 14 African countries have introduced export restrictions on unprocessed critical minerals, requiring “local beneficiation” – or in-country processing and manufacturing – prior to export, and demanding technology and financing. Wealthier countries are also supporting the idea of local…
Congo already has electricity it cannot deliver. Inga’s problem is not the dam. Everyone is arguing about who will finance 44 gigawatts. Almost nobody is asking why the 1,775 megawatts already built runs at half output and reaches almost no one. One refurbished turbine explains it. Inga I was…
Four Algerian Su-30 fighters touched down in Niamey on 30 August 2026, trailed by an aerial refueling aircraft. A day earlier, mutinous soldiers — some drawn from units worn down by heavy losses fighting jihadist groups — had stormed a military base next to the capital’s airport and moved on the…
Africa is facing its 17th Ebola outbreak, and this time the continent is meeting it with the most capable response architecture it has ever assembled. The outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was declared on 15th May 2026, and both WHO and Africa CDC have classified it as a public…
This piece was a shortlisted finalist for the Canon Collins 2026 essay competition. The annual competition invites essays that demonstrate thought leadership and offer fresh perspectives on issues affecting southern Africa. Some of my earliest memories are not of places but of words. One of those…
Somali political life is intensely debated across towns, households, media platforms and diaspora communities. Yet this energy does not consistently produce the power to compel answers, reverse failed policies or remove officials whose conduct has become unacceptable. The distance between…
The question of why 70,000 Moroccans migrated to the Spanish-governed territories of Ceuta and Melilla within hours on 30 July – ‘Throne Day’, which is one of the most respectable celebrations of the Morocco Kingdom – still lingers in international media and haunts inquisitive minds. Commentators…
Across Africa, assisted reproductive technology (ART) is expanding at an unprecedented pace. Fertility clinics are opening in countries where, until recently, couples had little choice but to travel abroad, often to Europe, India, or within the continent South Africa—to access in vitro…
The year 2026 marks the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Women’s March against extending the dompas to the black women of South Africa. Every August, the commemoration of Women’s Month highlights the inheritances and unfinished legacies of women’s anti-apartheid resistance. This Women’s Month, it is…
