Africa is cannibalising its own future. Rising xenophobia, political nationalism and geopolitical fractures are no longer just social problems — they are now documented threats to investment, expansion and economic survival across the continent. That is the hard truth emerging…
Armed conflict doesn’t stay where it starts. And if the Congolese community in Kenya is right, the war devastating eastern DRC has quietly extended its reach into Nairobi’s churches, streets and refugee spaces — right under the Kenyan government’s nose.…
The African Union is in crisis — and not just because of the wars, disease, and terrorism eating at the continent’s edges. The deeper crisis is one of dependency, and a few voices at last week’s AU Executive Council session…
The United States just made a move that every resource-rich nation, including Kenya, needs to pay close attention to. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding…
Picture a room in Toronto, Canada. Legal scholars and political thinkers sit around a table, debating the architecture of global justice. Among them is Makau Mutua — SUNY Distinguished Professor, international law heavyweight, and a man who has spent decades…
A Prison, a Nickname, and Years of Silence Before the International Criminal Court shut down his legal escape route, Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri was simply known inside Mitiga prison as “the angel of death.” That nickname was not handed…
Somalia is about to choose its next president, and the stakes could not be higher. Four names are dominating political conversations in Mogadishu right now — former presidents Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo and Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, former Prime Minister Abdi Farah…
Two activists vanish in Guinea. Their colleagues try to mark the two-year anniversary of their disappearance from the safety of Dakar. Then Senegal — long held up as West Africa’s democratic anchor — steps in and shuts the whole thing…
The War Nobody Expected Ukraine to Win Is Being Fought at the Pump Here is what the official Russian narrative will not tell you: Ukraine is not just surviving this war — it is now hitting Russia where it genuinely…
A Saudi Arabian real estate and construction powerhouse has planted its flag inside Kenya’s most ambitious urban development, with Mabani Aljazeera Holding Group acquiring a near-equal stake in the Jabali Towers mixed-use project at Tatu City — a move that…
