July 31
Africa: Cotton to Cloth - The Story Africa Has Always Needed to Tell [editorial]
allAfrica
Africa grows more than half of the world's finest long-staple cotton. It earns less than three percent of what that cotton is eventually worth. This is not a trade problem. It is a… Read more »
Liberia: Before We Lose Ourselves [editorial]
Liberian Observer
As Liberia closes another Independence Week, perhaps the most important question before us is not whether we celebrated well. It is whether we remember well. Read more »
South Africa: Reforming Prescribed Minimum Benefits Is the First Step to Affordable Medical Cover [opinion]
spotlight
With plans in motion to roll out universal health coverage in South Africa, Dr Katlego Mothudi, of the Board of Healthcare Funders, argues that revising the compulsory prescribed… Read more »
July 30
Nigeria: The Federalism That Promotes Productivity (1) [opinion]
Premium Times
In my last two articles, I argue that Nigeria's developmental challenge is less about the absence of ideas than the organisation of incentives. The first article contends that many… Read more »
Ghana: Beyond Convenience - What Constitutes a Political Prisoner? [opinion]
Ghanaian Times
The phrase "political prisoner" is used often in public debate, on social media, in news commentary, and sometimes in legal argument. Because it carries moral weight, people reach… Read more »
July 29
Africa: Hepatitis Is the Test of Africa's Health Sovereignty [opinion]
Health-e
This week, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) released the Operational Toolkit for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Management of Hepatitis B. It is a… Read more »
Liberia: Ghana Moved for Its People in Abidjan. Where Is Liberia? [editorial]
FrontPageAfrica
More than 400 Liberians are sleeping in schoolrooms outside Abidjan, three weeks after bulldozers took their homes. Ghana already brought 228 of its own citizens back from the same… Read more »
Kenya: Sifuna's Moment Has Arrived, but the Road to State House Is Much Longer [opinion]
Capital FM
Senator Edwin Sifuna's political star appears to be rising at a defining moment in Kenya's politics. It comes at a time when many Kenyans are searching for renewed hope following… Read more »
Rwanda: When Will Kinshasa Realize the Gods Must Be Crazy? [opinion]
New Times
In 1980, director Jamie Uys made cinematic history with the satirical comedy The gods must be crazy. The story begins with an act so ordinary that it appears insignificant. Flying… Read more »
Africa: The Bolle Jos Connection - How Sierra Leone's Alleged Protection of Europe's Most Wanted Drug Kingpin Threatens Liberia and West Africa [opinion]
New Dawn
The recent wave of unprecedented cocaine seizures across West Africa is no longer a series of isolated criminal incidents. Instead, the arrests, investigations, and intelligence… Read more »
Rwanda: In the Digital Age, Our Devices Carry Both Evidence and Livelihoods [opinion]
New Times
Over the past 32 years, Rwanda has built institutions centred on its people. Courts have become more accessible, banking services have reached communities, and government services… Read more »
July 28
Liberia: A Video Threatened the President's Son. Liberia Cannot Afford to Treat That As Social Media Noise [editorial]
FrontPageAfrica
Two-armed men on camera, invoking a father-son relationship with Jojo Boakai and demanding their cocaine back, is not a rumor investigator get to wave off. It is evidence.… Read more »
Ghana: Africa Must Confront Xenophobia Decisively [editorial]
Ghanaian Times
The confirmation yesterday by the Minister of Foreign Affairs that two Ghanaians have been killed in renewed xenophobic attacks in South Africa is both troubling and unacceptable. Read more »
Liberia: At 179, Liberia Must Build the Future It Deserves [editorial]
New Dawn
One hundred and seventy-nine years after declaring independence, Liberia stands at another defining moment in its national journey. Read more »
Liberia: The Death of Finality - Why Criminal Court 'C' Just Shattered the Liberian Constitution [opinion]
FrontPageAfrica
The Liberian judiciary stands at a terrifying constitutional precipice. In a move that has sent shockwaves through the legal community, Criminal Court "C" Judge Ousman Feika… Read more »
South Africa: Levy Failure - There Must Be a Total Ban On Single-Use Plastic Bags in SA [opinion]
Daily Maverick
Every year, South Africans pull eight billion single-use plastic carrier bags from supermarket counters - more than 100 per person. With less than 1% of these bags recycled, the… Read more »
Nigeria: Xenophobia, Tinubu and Ramaphosa, By Reuben Abati [opinion]
Premium Times
In the midst of the brazen, extra-judicial killings of Nigerians in South Africa, along with other Africans, on the grounds that these are illegal immigrants, the South African… Read more »
Rwanda: Marriage Clarity Should Come Before Family Court [opinion]
New Times
Many family disputes do not begin in court. They begin earlier, when two people enter marriage with love, hope, and excitement, but without enough clarity about the life they are… Read more »
Rwanda: Why Rwanda's Health Workforce Needs More Than Clinical Skills [opinion]
New Times
When most people picture a health professional, they imagine a doctor treating patients, a nurse administering medication, or a pharmacist dispensing prescriptions. These roles are… Read more »
South Africa: Is 'Sorry' Enough? the Mokwele Case and the Limits of Institutional Apology [opinion]
Daily Maverick
An arrest is not a tweet; it is a humiliation where no apology can restore a damaged reputation. Read more »
Rwanda: From London to the UK's Second-Largest City - Visit Rwanda's Journey Rolls On [opinion]
New Times
The 2026 FIFA World Cup reached its climax on July 19, when Spain defeated Argentina 1-0 in extra time at New York New Jersey Stadium. Yet the tournament's dramatic conclusion did… Read more »
July 27
South Africa: World Nature Conservation Day - South Africa's Natural Heritage Is Disappearing Quietly [opinion]
Daily Maverick
Most conservation losses do not begin with bulldozers, but with indifference - a landscape dismissed as 'just scrub', a patch of land assumed to have little value, a decision… Read more »
South Africa: The Myth of the Level Playing Field - Why SA's Wealth Gap Requires a Redress [opinion]
Daily Maverick
Where most countries wrestle with financial inequality through inheritance, in South Africa the legacy of apartheid means only a few South Africans see wealth pass from one… Read more »
Nigeria: Editorial - NNPCL's Reckless Disregard for Senate Oversight [editorial]
Premium Times
PREMIUM TIMES holds the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, responsible for NNPCL's litany of affronts on the legislature. Read more »
Uganda: Noeline Nassuuna, Defenders Protection Initiative - Inclusion Means Nothing If It Isn't Safe [opinion]
Nile Post
Uganda has spent years chasing digital inclusion, more people online, more mobile money accounts, more government services moved onto a phone screen. Noeline Nassuuna of the… Read more »
