When a Kenyan industrial energy firm scores 87.5 points on B Lab’s rigorous B Impact Assessment, clearing the 80-point certification threshold, the result is more than a badge of corporate virtue. It is a data point in a live experiment:…
Ghana’s Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, has staked out a governance position on artificial intelligence in the country’s classrooms, arguing that the technology must be subordinated to pedagogical goals rather than permitted to reshape learning outcomes by default. His remarks,…
What actually happened in Rabat on Sunday? Kenya’s Harambee Starlets opened their 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) campaign with a 4-0 defeat to hosts Morocco in a Group A fixture played at the Moulay El Hassan Stadium in…
The headline figure looks reassuring: Ghana’s two sovereign petroleum funds closed the first half of 2026 with a combined balance of US$1.64 billion, up from an opening balance of US$1.55 billion at the start of the year. Yet the underlying…
When the football federations of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger formally submitted a joint bid to host the 2032 Africa Cup of Nations, they did more than enter a continental sporting competition. They placed a direct institutional question before the…
A single public statement from a presidential candidate cannot halt a criminal prosecution in Ghana. That is the institutional reality at the centre of a case that has drawn unexpected attention to the boundaries between political will and prosecutorial independence…
Kenya and Ghana have opened formal discussions on a bilateral health partnership covering Universal Health Coverage architecture, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and digital health infrastructure, with both governments signaling intent to translate diplomatic engagement into concrete institutional programmes. The talks took place…
Kenya Reinsurance Corporation’s move to establish physical offices in Dar es Salaam and Kigali signals a concrete institutional bet on East African market integration, one that carries implications for how reinsurance capacity is built, regulated, and distributed across the region.…
What exactly has the Dangote refinery achieved, and why does it matter beyond Nigeria? In August 2025, a tanker loaded with 300,000 barrels of finished gasoline departed the Lekki port complex in Lagos and sailed to the United States. The…
Kenya minted more dollar millionaires in 2026 even as ordinary households absorbed a punishing cost-of-living crisis, raising pointed questions about the structural drivers of wealth distribution across East Africa’s largest economy and what this bifurcation signals for regional economic integration…
