
Zimbabwe’s shift to biometric e-passports masks a critical vulnerability: digital sovereignty. With foreign firms building the state's digital identity infrastructure,...




We celebrate Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o an influential Kenyan writer who died aged 87. We remember Ngũgĩ with these 10 quotes...

















Our continent’s economy needs to be extricated from the colonial peonage maintained by African and foreign elites. We need an economy that centers Africa’s self-determination, our...

The picture seems hopeless, but with mitigation and adaptation strategies and policies driven through COP26, southern Africa can reduce the impacts of climate change on local...

Sudan has needed and will require compromise and principled political goodwill to realise a difficult transition from military rule.

The time has come for African leaders to amplify their voices in a combined effort to demand that G20 leaders prioritize global vaccine access for the...

The AU should do more to pre-empt coups by sanctioning bad governance and attempts by presidents to extend their terms.

African countries cannot be ignored, or just listened to. Their needs should shape the agenda.

Kudakwashe Tagwirei, who is close to Zimbabwe’s president and his inner circle, leveraged his privileged access to fuel and mining markets to strike a lucrative partnership...

On October 14 and 15, Hivos’ African Crossroads will organize its fourth edition. The theme of this year's gathering is ECOEXISTENCE. At the end of Crossroads...

WHO’s safeguarding failure in the DRC has re-focused attention on the sexual misconduct that surfaces with disgraceful regularity in humanitarian, development, and peacekeeping operations worldwide.

Criminalising suicide directs resources towards punishment which has no significant deterrent effect.