Taylor Luck Amman, Jordan | October 17, 2018 | The Christian Science Monitor Leah Millis/AP The disappearance and alleged murder of Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi has done more than strike fear in the hearts of Arab jour …
Gambia launches truth commission to shed light on Yahya Jammeh’s tortured rule
Agency Staff | 16 October 2018 | Business Day Ousted Gambian president YahyaJammeh. Picture: REUTERS The West African state of The Gambia on Monday launched an 11-member truth commission tasked with shedding light on summary executions, disappearances, …
‘They have taken our beautiful sand from us and left nothing’
Robert Shivambu, David Matsinhe | 17 Oct 2018 | Mail & Guardian Children playing on the streets of the abandoned village of Nagonha. A devastating flood in February 2015 destroyed most houses and people left fearing new flooding. (Amnesty Internati …
Zimbabwe: troubled nation now faces tough foreign policy choices
Stephen Chan | October 3, 2018 The Conversation New Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa delivers a speech during the swearing in of the new members of his cabinet at the State House in Harare. EPA Images The toxic presidency of Mugabe may be over, …
Ethiopia to Mauritius: how will Africa match jobs to its population boom?
Peter Beaumont in Port Louis and Tom Gardner in Addis Ababa | Thu 27 Sep 2018 | The Guardian As Africa seeks new ways to tackle high debt, low pay and inequality, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz believes two countries offer an alternative to the ‘Asian …
Showdown: SA takes on the US for cheaper drugs
Laura Lopez Gonzalez | 28 Sep 2018 | Mail & Guardian When the US went to bat for Big Pharma in the fight against this killer disease, South Africa wasn’t having any of it. Here’s what happened next. Face-off: South Africa argued for patients over p …
Looks like Angola has its own problems with presidential progeny
Candido Mendes and Henrique Almeida | 25 September 2018 | Business Day While former president Jacob Zuma’s son, Duduzane, has not been arrested on corruption charges, he has been named at the state capture inquiry as one of those who helped the Guptas …
Eritrea has slashed conscription. Will it stem the flow of refugees?
Cristiano D’Orsi | August 8, 2018 | The Conversation Eritrean refugees in Israel. Rudychaimg/Wikimedia Commons Ethiopia and Eritrea have signed an historic agreement to end the 20-year conflict between the two countries. The breakthrough has been widel …
Beyond the Red Sea: A new driving force in the politics of the Horn
Alex DeWaal | July 11, 2018 | World Peace Foundation This essay was published by African Arguments on July 11, 2018, and is the first part of The Thin Red Line, an African Arguments series focusing on dynamics around the Red Sea. The opening of the Su …
The pop star vs the president: Uganda’s generational fight
The Independent | September 13, 2018 Bobi Wine (left) celebrates with MP Basalirwa (middle) after a recent election victory. PHOTO BOBI WINE FACEBOOK Kampala, Uganda | AFP | “We used to be scared,” said Josephine Katumba, a 30-year-old hairdresser in K …
Africa’s aviation industry captains chart new course
Julius Bizimungu | September 13, 2018 | The New Times Delegates at the fourth Ground Handling International Stakeholders’ Conference in Kigali yesterday. The meeting seeks to devise new ways to unleash Africa’s aviation potential. Sam Ngendahimana. Afr …
Hydropower is Africa’s big gamble
Sipho Kings | 14 Sep 2018 | Mail & Guardian There isn’t enough electricity in sub-Saharan Africa. Industry can’t grow rapidly and many people have to use paraffin and firewood for cooking and heating. To change this situation, the African Developm …
VW mulls Ethiopia in Africa foray
Siseko Njobeni | 10 September 2018 | Business Day Economic recovery gives car maker Volkswagen the green light for expansion Volkswagen (VW) is considering a component assembly plant in Ethiopia, in addition to the two recently announced assembly plan …
Russia’s scramble for influence in Africa catches western officials off-guard
Peter Beaumont | Tue 11 Sep 2018 | The Guardian Kremlin officials are offering arms and military services deals in exchange for diplomatic support and mineral extraction contracts Russia’s intervention in Africa has included arms sales, military servic …
Shadowy U.S. Drone War in Africa Set to Expand
Lara Seligman | September 4, 2018 Foreign Policy Deployment of armed drones in Niger coincides with a new U.S. plan to withdraw some troops. A French soldier involved in the regional anti-insurgent Operation Barkhane stands guard next to a Reaper drone …
Eritrea to trim the size of its military as détente opens future
Agency Staff | September 2018 | Business Day FILE PHOTO: An Ethiopian military officer stands guard in the outskirts of Badme, a territorial dispute town between Eritrea and Ethiopia currently occupied by Ethiopia June 8, 2018. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/Fil …
China Is Loaning Billions of Dollars to African Countries. Here’s Why the U.S. Should Be Worried
Grant T. Harris | August 30, 2018 | Time A flower parterre is set to welcome the upcoming 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) at Dongdan on August 26, 2018 in Beijing, China. The 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on Chin …
Kenya’s dairy farmers use solar rays to keep milk cool
Kagondu Njagi Kibumbu, Kenya – | August 29, 2018 | Christian Science Monitor There are nearly 1 million dairy farmers in Kenya but only a small percent can connect to the national electricity grid to refrigerate their milk. Some of the rest rely on 5 …
I am a revolutionary, says warlord
Agency Staff | 31 August 2018| Business Day General Bosco Ntaganda addresses a news conference in Kabati, a village located in Congo’s eastern North Kivu province, January 8, 2009. A dissident commander who is challenging General Laurent Nkunda’s leade …
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