We first heard of Alice at a press conference on 19 January 1987, given by Yoweri Museveni, the man then relatively new to the Ugandan presidency. We’d been summoned to State Lodge in Mbale, at the ...

As we close out 2025, we reflect on a year marked by defining moments—significant wins, painful losses, and the passing of respected elders in the public sphere. In this conversation, our guest Zahid ...

In 1989, when he was the deputy speaker of parliament, Kalonzo Musyoka, the former vice president and now an opposition leader, was a man who would not brook criticism of the one-party state under ...

Karura Forest, Nairobi’s iconic urban green haven, has recently become the focus of a management dispute between the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) and Friends of Karura Forest (FKF). The disagreement ...

On Thursday, 4 December, President William Ruto signed a US$2.5 billion five-year US-Kenya health cooperation framework on behalf of the government of Kenya. The framework is the first to be signed of ...

The territorial ambitions of Ethiopia – or, more accurately, Abyssinia (present-day northern Ethiopia comprising the Tigray and Amhara regions) – are deep-rooted. They emanate from the thinking that ...

An old map of Africa showed me how calmly power redraws the world. The Kenya–US health pact does it again — using soft language to mask a new extraction, this time of African health data in the global ...

During the recent Dutch election debate in October, populist politician Geert Wilders, leader of the extreme right-wing PVV party, made a controversial remark. While making a case for zero percent VAT ...

In this blog post, Thelma Arko and Kattia Moreno critically examine South Africa’s emerging green hydrogen sector, arguing that contemporary partnerships with European nations risk reproducing ...

This cross-border investigation follows ArcelorMittal’s steel route —from African mines to European plants and Latin American sacrifice zones— showing how the global pursuit of so-called “green steel” ...

What the Russian military action in Ukraine and the Palestinian military action in Gaza have in common is the application of raw power. Russia has been able to impose its will on the Ukrainian ...