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ROSS HARVEY ANGOLANS will head to the polls on 24 August. On the surface, these will be the most competitive Angolan elections yet. In 2017, the incumbent...
GIDEON ABAGNA AZUNRE/FESTIVAL GODWIN BOATENG/OWUSU AMPONSAH/ STEPHEN APPIAH TAKYI AFRICAN leaders are increasingly aspiring to “modernise” their cities. That is to make them “globally competitive” and “smart”. The...
ODONGO KODONGO UHURU Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, ascended to Kenya’s presidency in March 2013. This followed a contested poll that they won with a slim...
ADEKEYE ADEBAJO THE African Union (AU) was born in the South African port city of Durban in 2002. Under its first chair, Thabo Mbeki (pictured), African leaders...
WESTEN K SHILAHO WILLIAM Samoei Ruto (55) has been declared the winner of Kenya’s presidential election. He is the leader of the United Democratic Alliance party under the...
DANNY BRADLOW IN most rich countries the news that a mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is coming to visit is met with indifference. But,...
THE incarceration of opposition legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole has come to symbolise not only the authoritarian excesses of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government but also...
JAMES D. LONG KENYA has held its seventh national election since the reintroduction of multiparty competition in the early 1990s. Elections in the country are never...
GILBERT M. KHADIAGALA UNITED States secretary of state Antony Blinken’s whirlwind visit to three African countries is the second in less than 12 months. In November 2021 he...
WHILE others are seeing greater opportunities for trade and trade finance, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will create an opportunity for rapid development of...