Africa: Homegrown Approaches to Achieving Quality Education for Girls

Education is so much more than an opportunity to go to school; it is an opportunity to determine one’s future, to establish a voice within and outside of one’s… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Secretary Tillerson's Visit Unlikely to Cut Much Ice With African Leaders

The visit to Africa by United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, his first since taking office 14 months ago, will do little to shore up the Trump administration's relations… Read more »

Kenya: A Divided Kenya Should Alarm Its Friends

Kenya is sliding towards political chaos and possible inter-communal violence - or towards an authoritarian crackdown that could cripple its young democracy. The urgent need to… Read more »

Africa: Top Trump Administration Diplomat Addresses Africa's Toughest Issues

The current U.S. administration's top diplomat on African affairs, Acting Assistant Secretary Don Yamamoto, recently completed a 10-day trip to Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Rwanda… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Health Challenge is a Human Rights Issue

Access to health is a human right. The Constitution of the World Health Organization states that "the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the… Read more »

Africa: 'Guptagate' Hits Businesses Across Africa, China, India

The corruption scandal engulfing South Africa's state-owned companies has triggered a ban by one of the world's leading software companies on the payment of commissions on… Read more »

Kenya: As the Nation Prepares to Vote...

It is the eve of the much-anticipated October 26 poll and hopes of a successful, peace and credible poll are slim. Read more »

Kenya: Kenyatta vs Odinga - Who's Been More Presidential?

On 11 August, Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairman Wafula Chebukati declared Uhuru Kenyatta the winner of the highly contested August 8 presidential… Read more »

Africa: Faster, Better and Together - the Road to Inclusive E-Commerce in Africa

“Small is beautiful, small is powerful”. This is the creed embedded in the foundation of a global e-commerce giant: Alibaba. But the creed not only defines the genesis… Read more »

Kenya: Outrageous Accusations Odinga, Kenyatta Have Made About Each Other

As the August 8 general election draws near, tensions are flaring and the war of words between the leader of the main opposition, National Super Alliance, Raila Odinga, and the… Read more »

Kenya: The Week That Was

The political week in Kenya began with all eyes on the National Super Alliance, in which a sometimes-tense coalition has to come to some agreement about who they will put forward… Read more »

Africa: SICPA's Solution Must be Declared "DOA" Dead On Arrival.

For years now, Kenyans have been following with great interest the controversy around Swiss firm SICPA Security Solutions SA Limited. As the saga unfolds, the general public comes… Read more »

Africa: Vote for an African in Athlete of Year Awards!

The International Association of Athletics Federations has announced the names of athletes nominated for the World Athletes of the Year Award. Read more »

Africa: 'China-Africa Cooperation Must be Mutually Beneficial'

A China-Africa Symposium was held on 11-12 August, 2016 in Mombasa, Kenya, on the theme "Win-Win Cooperation for Common Development". It was co-hosted by the Institute of African… Read more »

Africa: Japan-Africa Summit Gives Continent New Leverage

When the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) was launched in 1993 by Japan in co-operation with the World Bank, the United Nations and the UN Development… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Top Public Opinion Survey Under Threat

The consortium which runs Africa's most authoritative public opinion surveys faces funding difficulties. Writing for AllAfrica, Johnnie Carson says that coming at a time when… Read more »

Africa: Panama Papers Probe Exposes New Secret Deals Across Africa

International journalists' networks investigating the use of offshore bank accounts which enable wealthy clients to reduce the level of scrutiny of their dealings have published… Read more »

Africa: Indian PM Modi's African Safari

Nearly nine months ago the third India-Africa Forum Summit, and the first that included all African states, was held with much fanfare in Delhi. Read more »

Africa: Continent Can Accelerate Growth Despite Commodities Slowdown

The apparent end to the commodity super-cycle has sent shock waves across the global economy. It has sparked turbulence in world stock markets, put pressure on currencies, and… Read more »

Ethiopia: Ethiopian Runners Dominate Boston Marathon

Ethiopian runners have broken the world record after sweeping both men's and women's Boston Marathon titles. Read more »

Kenya: Watch the Advert That Kenya Banned

The Film Classification Board in Kenya has asked Coca-Cola to delete a kissing scene in a television advertisement because it "violates family values", according to the BBC. Read more »

Africa: Nairobi Trade Talks Made History - Kenya Foreign Minister

At the start of 2015, the prospects for a successful outcome for the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Nairobi were dim. The pundits were forecasting… Read more »

Africa: Trade Talks in Nairobi Can Deliver a Transformed World

After a long and winding journey that started when the World Trade Organization first chose Nairobi as the venue for its 10th Ministerial Conference, known by the acronym MC10, the… Read more »

Africa: Trade Can Beat Poverty - Starting With Nairobi Conference

Travelling the globe for the World Trade Organization (WTO), I get asked the same questions everywhere I go: what is my view of the global economy and what is the next big trend? I… Read more »

Africa: How Africa Can Fix the International Criminal Court

The demand of South Africa's ruling African National Congress that the government should pull out of the International Criminal Court is defeatist, naïve and reactionary, says… Read more »