The State Released Dangerous Offenders. Now It Can’t Find Them. South Africa’s Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has admitted to Parliament that 29,320 parolees and probationers have absconded — and remain untraced. Among them: convicted murderers, rapists, and armed robbers.…
Hormuz Is Closed — And Kenyans Will Pay the Price Since March 4, 2026, Iran has shut down the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway through which a quarter of the world’s oil and a fifth of its liquefied…
South Africa’s Parliament Has Drawn a Clear Line — No President Is Untouchable South Africa’s sub-committee on the Review of Assembly Rules has adopted new presidential impeachment procedures, creating a structured, legally grounded path to remove a sitting president from…
The Government Finally Admits Mass Culling Wasn’t Working South Africa’s Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen has announced a landmark policy shift that will allow poultry farmers to vaccinate their birds against highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) — ending a brutal, costly…
The Left Is Regrouping — And It Has Names to Name Boksburg, Ekurhuleni — MK Party second deputy president Tony Yengeni stood before leftist delegates on Friday and said what many in South Africa’s political left have long believed: the…
Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Crisis Is a Warning for the Whole Continent In February 2026, Zimbabwe’s ruling party ZANU-PF did something that should alarm every young African who believes their vote matters: it gazetted Constitution Amendment Bill No. 3 (CAB3) — a…
A Election Built on Exclusion Ethiopia held a general election on Monday, but for millions of its citizens, the ballot box was never an option. Voting was suspended across parts of the Oromia and Amhara regions due to active insurgencies,…
The Most Dangerous Moment of Ramaphosa’s Political Life Is Here Cyril Ramaphosa has survived everything — Marikana, Phala Phala, coalition chaos. But the Constitutional Court just handed parliament a weapon his charm and willpower may not be able to deflect:…
America Is Dumping Its Deportees on Africa — And Our Governments Are Taking the Money Sierra Leone just became the latest African country to do Donald Trump’s dirty work. On Wednesday morning, a Boeing charter flight touched down at Lungi…
A Deadly Virus Is Spreading. Your Government’s Response Could Determine Whether It Reaches You. Fifty-five people are already dead in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ebola has been confirmed in Uganda’s capital, Kampala. And African Union Champion on Pandemic…
