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 …
What Happens in Sudan Doesn’t Stay in Sudan
Will Khartoum Become the Center of a New African Order or an Appendage of the Gulf? Michael Woldemariam and Alden Young |July 19, 2019 | Foreign Affairs Sudanese demonstrators wave flags at a rally in Khartoum honoring fallen protesters in July 2019/Mo …
The world before this coronavirus and after cannot be the same
Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah | March 27, 20200 | The Conversation “Living next door to Corona”/The conversation.com With COVID-19 infections now evident in 176 countries, the pandemic is the most significant threat to humanity since the second world wa …
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 …
Learning to Live With Despots
The Limits of Democracy Promotion Stephen D. Krasner |March/April 2020 Issue | Foreign Affairs No James Madison: Bolsonaro in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, July 2019/Pilar Olivares / Reuters Throughout its history, the United States has oscillated between tw …
The Weakness of the Strongman
Power Grabs by Putin and Xi May Bode Well for Democracy’s Future Adam E. Casey and Seva Gunitsky |March 23, 2020 | Foreign Affairs Xi and Putin shake hands in Moscow, June 2019/Li Xueren Xinhua / eyevine / Redux Earlier this month, Russian President V …
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 United States Must Not Pick Sides in the Nile River Dispute
Ethiopia and Egypt are at odds over a Nile dam. Washington should be helping them compromise, rather than doing Cairo’s bidding. By Addisu Lashitew | March 14, 2020 | Foreign Policy The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile Egypt and …
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 …
Fresh Prince: The Schemes and Dreams of Saudi Arabia’s Next King
F. Gregory Gause III | May/June 2018 Issue | Foreign Affairs MBS in Mecca, June 2017. Handout / Reuters It is not often that a Ritz-Carlton becomes a detention facility. But last November, when a large slice of the Saudi elite was arrested on accusatio …
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 …
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