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What happens when court orders are ignored, titles mean nothing, and land cartels operate with impunity? In the next episode of #TitleDeals, we follow two families fighting to reclaim what was taken ...
In the early days of his second term, President Donald Trump picked up on a promise he had made on the campaign trail. In January 2025, he issued an executive order for the declassification and ...
In 2019, 50.1 per cent of Kenyans were under the age of 19. That equates to half of a country the size of approximately 47.5 million people. Now, in 2025, these Gen Zers are entering adulthood and in ...
Growing up on a farm in South Africa’s Free State, the idea of transforming the world into something more sustainable, more equitable, consumed my thoughts. But when those ideas met the real world, ...
Fifty years ago this April, Dr Johnstone Muthiora, who, barely six months earlier, had taken on one of the most powerful men in Kenya at the ballot box and won, died mysteriously. His death, coming as ...
The Horn of Africa remains one of the most volatile regions on the continent, plagued by persistent conflicts that threaten its stability and development. The region has experienced decades of unrest, ...
Brandon Marc Finn and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah argue that in the DR Congo, industrial mining companies and political elites operate under the banner of decarbonization while perpetuating historic ...
On the Gates Foundation website, Ghanaian programmer Darlington Akogo talks about his mission to reduce the number of deaths in the West African nation, where there’s one doctor per 10,000 patients.
In April of 2023, two factions of the Sudanese armed forces, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), began attacking each other in the capital city of Khartoum ...
Last month, Kenya’s president William Ruto offered to host the second biennial African Climate Summit later this year, should no other African country be willing to take on the task. Ruto made this ...
The clash between progress and cultural heritage often results in painful outcomes, particularly the loss of family land and historical homes. The question remains: At what cost are we changing our ...
Apart from those very directly involved at the heart of the recent bout of fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), nobody will ever know the full story. Wars being what they are, ...