Beware! Health threats do not respect national jurisdictions Screening is not useless but screening alone is not surveillance.
Private capital and the lesson of Lamu for Africa The more important lesson may lie not in the refinery itself, but in how the investment is being brought to the ground.
Who really wins when Ethiopian factions fight? Even as the battlefield may settle who controls a piece of territory, it rarely accounts for the cost of destruction, the lives lost, and the divisions that may endure for generations.
Tshisekedi’s 3rd term bid reveals the constitutional malaise of Africa The two-term limit is not an arbitrary inconvenience but a mechanism intended to manage the concentration of power and encourage political succession.
Kicking out the neighbours may not create jobs for Kenyans Competition may be uncomfortable, but it is not the same thing as economic exclusion.
PRIME Refrain from weaponising the law against political dissent When political disagreement is routinely recast as treason, the distinction between defending the state and defending those who control it begins to disappear.
PRIME Somalia must not allow rivalry to waste partners’ timely sacrifices For a country that has spent nearly two decades fighting its way back from state collapse, a rushed or poorly managed drawdown of AUSSOM could jeopardise the security gains.
PRIME El Niño: East Africa governments must look beyond the next downpour East Africa may not be able to control the weather. It can, however, control how prepared it is when the weather turns against it.
PRIME NTBs: We must choose reason over rhetoric The deeper problem is that regional integration inevitably creates winners and losers in the short term.
PRIME Region’s shifting development visions need accountability New strategies should build on evidence from previous ones, not simply replace them because governments or political leadership have changed.
