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…
There is a particular kind of scrutiny that attaches itself to a Chief Justice appointed during a change of government, a scrutiny that rarely concerns itself with the texture of actual decisions and almost always concerns itself with the politics…
Ghana’s Gold Board (GoldBod) CEO Sammy Gyamfi announced on 20 October at the Mining in Motion Conference that institutional, licensing, and value-addition reforms introduced by the board have generated 4,866 direct jobs in under two years, comprising 361 public-sector positions…
When Satya Prasad, Senior Trade Specialist at the World Bank Group, addressed delegates at the IMO–World Bank Group Workshop on Maritime Single Window and Port Community Systems in Accra, he opened with a disarming observation: procuring software is the easy…
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…
King Mohammed VI’s address at the opening of Morocco’s parliamentary year in Rabat was not a speech in the conventional sense. It was a diplomatic repositioning, one that inverted the familiar architecture of North-South negotiation by placing Morocco in the…
