May 09
Kenya: Kenya Floods - As the Costs Add Up Pressure Mounts On a Country in Economic Crisis
There were early warnings that Kenya's long rain season - between March and May - was going to bring above-normal rainfall. The extreme intensity of the rain has resulted in… Read more »
May 06
Kenya: Kenya's Public Universities - Financing Model Overhaul Fails to Address Biggest Challenge - Funding
Kenya adopted a new approach to public university funding beginning with the 2023-24 academic year. Rapid student enrolment growth and declining state revenues have triggered the… Read more »
May 01
Kenya: Kenya's Devastating Floods Expose Decades of Poor Urban Planning and Bad Land Management
Floods in Kenya killed at least 169 people between March and April 2024. The most catastrophic of these deaths occurred after a flash flood swept through a rural village killing 42… Read more »
April 30
Uganda: Business and Management Graduates Can Become Climate Change and Sustainability Champions - Lessons From Uganda and Tanzania On How Universities Can Support This
There is no doubt about it: the world is in the grips of a climate crisis. The headlines are full of reports about extreme weather events and the negative effects of the fossil… Read more »
April 29
Uganda: Uganda's Tax System Isn't Bringing in Enough Revenue but Is Targeting Small Business the Answer?
Uganda, with a fiscal deficit of 5.6% in 2023, has increasingly turned to local resources to make up for its revenue shortfall since the World Bank suspended its funding on 8… Read more »
April 26
Kenya: Kenyan Doctors' Strike - the Govt Keeps Failing to Hold Up Its End of the Bargain
At least 4,000 doctors are employed in Kenya's public healthcare sector. Almost all of them went on strike on 14 March 2024, demanding the implementation of a labour agreement… Read more »
April 25
Sudan: Sudan's Civil War Is Rooted in Its Historical Favouritism of Arab and Islamic Identity
The current civil war in Sudan goes beyond a simple power struggle between two generals. It reflects a deep-rooted crisis within the country's governing structure that's been… Read more »
April 24
Rwanda: Rwanda's Post-Genocide Model Prioritises Security Over Freedom and Equality - a Risk to Future Stability
Rwanda, a small and landlocked central African country, has made remarkable socio-economic progress since the 1994 genocide in which an estimated 500,000 people died. But the… Read more »
April 23
Sudan: Civil War Stretches Into a Second Year With No End in Sight
In the early hours of April 15 2023, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) - a Sudanese paramilitary force - attacked the military airstrip in the town of Merowe and deployed troops… Read more »
April 21
Seychelles: Blue Whales - First Discovery Near Seychelles in Decades - What Our Study Found
Blue whales are fascinating animals. At 24-30 metres in length (longer than a basketball court) they are the largest creatures on Earth. They are also among the rarest. Estimates… Read more »
April 16
Kenya: Kenya's Shilling Is Gaining Value, but Don't Expect It to Last - Expert
Shortly after Kenya's 2022 elections, the shilling depreciated rapidly against the US dollar - the country's main currency for international transactions - fuelling a wave of… Read more »
April 15
East Africa: East Africa's 'Soda Lakes' Are Rising, Threatening Their Iconic Flamingos
Huge pink flocks of millions of flamingos - flamboyances of flamingos - are one of nature's great spectacles. But colleagues and I have uncovered worrying trends in the salty and… Read more »
Tanzania: Tanzanians Go to the Polls in 2025 - President Samia Has Changed the Landscape, but Magufuli's Legacy Persists
It's been three years since the death of Tanzania's president John Magufuli and the rise to power of current president Samia Suluhu Hassan. Read more »
April 14
Rwanda: Burundi-Rwanda Rivalry - RED-Tabara Rebel Attacks Add to Regional Tensions
The RED-Tabara armed group, based in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has renewed attacks in Burundi since late 2023. The group - which is an abbreviation of the French… Read more »
April 11
Rwanda: Rwanda Genocide - 30 Years On, Why Tutsis Are At the Centre of DR Congo's Conflict
The Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994 has in complex ways fuelled violent conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the past 30 years. At the centre of… Read more »
April 09
Rwanda: Rwanda's Genocide Could Have Been Prevented - 3 Things the International Community Should Have Done - Expert
As the world marks the 30th anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group in Rwanda, it is important to understand what the international community could have… Read more »
April 08
Tanzania: Diet and Nutrition - How Well Tanzanians Eat Depends Largely On Where They Live
Cities are growing faster in sub-Saharan Africa than elsewhere, with an annual urban population growth rate of around 4% compared to the world average of 1.5%. Read more »
April 07
Kenya: Young Kenyans Are Not Finding Work - How Universities Can Do a Better Job of Training Entrepreneurs
Kenya's long-term development blueprint, Vision 2030, envisions an empowered youth driving economic growth. The focus on its young population (aged 15-34) is apt given that the… Read more »
April 05
Rwanda: Rwandan Genocide, 30 Years On - Omitting Women's Memories Encourages Incomplete Understanding of Violence
The eruption of violence that Rwanda experienced beginning on the evening of April 6, 1994, continues to haunt the central African nation 30 years on - it has also changed the… Read more »
April 03
Kenya: Kenya's Wildlife Conservancies Make Old Men Rich, While Making Women and Young People Poorer
Kenya once had an exceptional abundance and diversity of wildlife. But as the country's population boomed, wildlife lost space to people, buildings, roads and agriculture. Read more »
Somalia: Turkey and Ethiopia Have Had Close Ties for Many Years - Somalia Maritime Deals May Shift the Dynamics
Ethiopia and Turkey, which have had cordial ties since the early 20th century, have drawn even closer in recent years as both battle criticism from the west over domestic policies.… Read more »
Rwanda: Children Born of Rape - the Devastating Legacy of Sexual Violence in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Trigger warning: this article contains accounts of sexual violence. Read more »
Rwanda: 30 Years After Genocide - Rwanda's Older Generations Fear a Return of Ethnic Tensions, but Youth Feel More United
It's 30 years since a genocide ripped through Rwandan society, leaving up to a million Tutsi and non-extremist Hutu dead. Read more »
April 02
Kenya: Kenya's Mission to Haiti - How the 1,000-Strong Force Is Preparing for Planned Intervention
Kenya has temporarily halted controversial plans to send a specially trained contingent of 1,000 police officers to Haiti, where armed gang violence recently took a turn for the… Read more »
March 27
Kenya: Kenya Has Tightened Its Laws to Stop Money Laundering - Why Banks Are the Focus
Kenya's banking industry has in recent years been in the crosshairs of national, regional and international watchdogs, given the country's role as a financial hub in eastern… Read more »