On 2 November 2026, Ethiopia declared six Sudanese consular staff in Asosa, in the Benishangul region, persona non grata and gave them 48 hours to leave its territory. Within days, Khartoum responded in kind, ordering Ethiopian diplomats out of the…
At the 9th World Investment Forum in Doha, Lesotho’s Prime Minister Samuel Matekane delivered an address that reframed the development finance debate, arguing that productive private investment, anchored in local capability-building and regional supply chain integration, must replace the structural…
What exactly is Fuliza Ya Pochi, and who does it serve? On 22 October 2026, Safaricom launched Fuliza Ya Pochi at Makongeni Market in Thika, extending overdraft credit directly to micro-merchants operating through its Pochi La Biashara digital wallet. The…
When Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration, Kithure Kindiki, landed at Bahir Dar International Airport on Saturday to be received by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the optics carried weight beyond diplomatic protocol. His arrival for the Tana…
Nairobi’s Global Trust Summit has forced a precise institutional question onto the table: under what conditions do public bodies earn legitimate authority, and what governance mechanisms make that authority durable? Running from 21 to 23 October under the theme “Weaving…
A new industry benchmark report reveals that seven in ten Kenyan workers are not on track for a financially secure retirement, a finding that cuts to the heart of a governance failure shared across West Africa: the persistent inability of…
When King Mohammed VI presided over the swearing-in of Morocco’s restructured cabinet at the Royal Palace in Rabat on Friday, the ceremony carried weight beyond its ceremonial form. At its centre stood Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, appointed Head of Government…
The shooting deaths of two Egyptian truck drivers at a market south of Khartoum in May 2025 set off a chain of institutional responses that now threaten one of the few functioning land trade corridors between North Africa and the…
Walk through the graduate halls of the University of Ghana’s Legon campus on any given afternoon, and the scene carries a particular tension. Students clutch freshly printed CVs, rehearsing interview answers for roles that, in many cases, barely existed when…
A Governance Failure Hidden Inside a Health Crisis Kenya’s first confirmed Ebola fatality is not simply a public health emergency. It is a diagnostic test of the country’s institutional capacity to manage cross-border disease surveillance within a region where human…
