East Africa
- Politics, Power & Governance
Primacy of the law has been asserted in Kenya – but the aftermath is unpredictable
On Friday 1 September, Kenya’s Supreme Court delivered a surprise. Against the expectations of many, the court ruled – in…
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'They're like the mafia': the super gangs behind Africa's poaching crisis
Late on 6 June 2014 Kenyan police, acting on a tip-off, raided a used car lot in Mombasa’s industrial area.…
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'It's Hard to Remove a Seating African President'
Another election, another win, another loss, another dispute, another positive endorsement by the ‘international observer teams,’ and another litany of…
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Encountering the promised land: Rastafari in Ethiopia and Shashamane
Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie would have been 125 this year. Perhaps coincidentally — and indeed meaningfully for Rastafari repatriates in…
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Loss of Fertile Land Fuels ‘Looming Crisis’ Across Africa
Climate change, soil degradation and rising wealth are shrinking the amount of usable land in Africa. But the number of…
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Who’s afraid of the giant African land snail?
The giant African land snail is seen as an invasive species throughout much of the tropics, but is it really…
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Meet Kenya’s Ex-Pig Farmer Turned Politician, the Only Person to Turn Up for TV debate
With less than a month before Kenya’s anticipated general election, the stage was prepared for a six-person debate at a…
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South Sudan's Women Deminers Brave Danger to Change Their Children's Future
A growing number of women deminers are clearing up bomb and unexploded ordnance – most of them mothers wanting to…
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The right to ‘eat’
Politics in many parts of Africa is often understood through a metaphor of eating – a point to which Jean-François Bayart drew…
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Rwanda: More Evidence Pins France On Genocide
RECENT reports in the French media have been awash with damning evidence about France’s complicity in the 1994 Genocide against…
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Ethiopia vs Kenya – The Chinese standard gauge rails compared
East Africa plays host to two of the continent’s most modernized rail transport system. Regional economic giants, Kenya and Ethiopia…
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Tanzanian farmers are facing heavy prison sentences if they continue their traditional seed exchange
In order to receive development assistance, Tanzania has to give Western agribusiness full freedom and give enclosed protection for patented…
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Malaria-Free Africa Within Sight – Former President of Tanzania
Former President of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete Interview. Are we making progress in the fight against malaria? There has been tremendous…
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Slave Labour? Death Rate Doubles for Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon
A woman with a pink cloth wrapped around her head climbs out of a window on the fourth floor of…
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