Mehari Taddele Maru | 24 Mar 2020 | Mail & Guardian A medical staff member washes her hands at the Wilkins Infectious Diseases Hospital in Harare on March 11, 2020, as they demonstrate their state of preparedness to treat the COVID-19 coronavirus i …
Rwandan man who breached coronavirus lockdown order eaten by crocodile
ANA Reporter | Mar 26, 2020 | The Independent Online File photo: Bongani Mbatha/African News Agency(ANA) Johannesburg – A Rwandan man who breached government’s instruction to stay at home during the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown to go fishing, has been …
In Africa, social distancing is a privilege few can afford
If you live in a township, make a living in the informal sector, or travel on a crowded bus, how do you self-quarantine? Karsten Noko|22 Mar 2020 | Aljazeera Women walk in the streets of Abidjan, Ivory Coast following the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID …
The coronavirus and Africa: Exposing our vulnerabilities and inequalities
Ayesha Jacub | 22 Mar 2020 | Mail & Guardian As Africans we are no strangers to large-scale human loss. Memories of the HIV epidemic weigh heavily on our collective psyche. We remember what it was like to lose large groups of our community to a vir …
Zimbabweans’ survival strategies
Kudzai Mashininga |12 Mar 2020 | Mail & Guardian People jostle for a chance to buy a loaf of bread from a vendor at a market in Bulawayo on January 16, 2019, as shops and offices remain closed for business in the central business district following …
More African countries confirm first Covid-19 cases
Thirty African countries are now treating nearly 400 patients with Covid-19 David Lewis |16 March 2020 | Business Day Health workers wearing protective equipment disinfect a minibus in Nairobi, Kenya, March 14 2020. Picture: Picture: YASUYOSHI CHIBA / …
The Digital Dictators: How Technology Strengthens Autocracy
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz, and Joseph Wright, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2020 I’ll be watching you: outside a mosque in Xinjiang, China, June 2008 Kadir Van Lohuizen / Noor / Redux The Stasi, East Germany’s state security service, may ha …
Africa’s Democratic Moment? The Five Leaders Who Could Transform the Region
By Judd Devermont and Jon Temin | June 11, 2019 | Foreign Affairs Five guys: Abiy, Lourenço, Ramaphosa, Tshisekedi, and BuhariLeft to Right: Reuters / Tiksa Negeri, Pool, Sumaya Hisham, Olivia Acland, Afolabi Sotunde In the 60-plus years …
African praise of Saudi Arabia highlights diplomatic pressures
Sam Mednick, Elias Meseret, and Ahmed Mohamed Salem Associated Press | October 24, 2018 | Christian Science Monitor In the weeks after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, five African nations made statements in support of Saudi Arabia. The statements are an exam …
Mo Ibrahim: Africa’s decade of ‘lost opportunity’
Simon Allison | 30 Oct 2018 | Mail & Guardian The 2018 African governance index was released this week. It’s not good news. ‘Africa has a huge challenge ahead. Its large and youthful potential workforce could transform the continent for the better, …
Villagers win landmark case against mining company
Allan Seccombe | 25 October 2018 | Business Day Constitutional Court judgment sets precedent for how mining companies should deal with land owners A man walks past the tribal headquarters of the Bakgatla Ba Kgafela tribe in Pilanesburg in the North We …
Ethiopia gets female president as it commits to reforms
George Obulutsa | 25 October 2018 | Business Day Primer Minister Abiy Ahmed reshuffled cabinet has 10 female ministers Sahle-WorkZewde. Picture: REUTERS/NOORKHAMIS Addis Ababa — Ethiopia’s parliament has approved senior diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde as th …
Cameroon’s Paul Biya Gives a Master Class in Fake Democracy
Jefcoate O’Donnell, Robbie Gramer | October 22, 2018 | Foreign Policy One of the world’s most experienced autocrats has clinched another seven-year term by bending the rules of the game in his direction in ways both old and new. Members of the Cameroon …
DP World eyes Eritrean ports in region strategy
Agency Staff | 22 October 2018 | Business Day Containers waiting to be loaded. Picture: THINKSTOCK Addis Ababa — The Red Sea state of Eritrea may play a key role in DP World’s plans in the Horn of Africa, where a dozen ports could be needed to service …
When Ye met Yoweri, and worlds collided
Simon Allison | 18 Oct 2018 | Mail & Guardian Rapper Kanye West (L) and Kim Kardashian (R) pose for a photograph with Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni when they paid a courtesy call at State House, Entebbe, Uganda October 15, 2018. Presidential P …
Abiy Ahmed’s Ethiopian exceptionalism
Simon Allison | 19 Oct 2018 | Mail & Guardian Ethiopia’s new prime minister is trying to do things differently. If he succeeds, the consequences will be felt beyond his borders A streamlined Cabinet is one of the many changes Prime Minister Abiy Ah …
At stake in Khashoggi affair: control of the Arab world’s narrative
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, …
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