The year 2025 did not mark the arrival of new global challenges so much as the consolidation of existing ones into a more demanding and less forgiving international environment. Across regions, ...

We first heard of Alice at a press conference on 19 January 1987, given by Yoweri Museveni, the man then relatively new to the Ugandan presidency. We’d been summoned to State Lodge in Mbale, at the ...

As we close out 2025, we reflect on a year marked by defining moments—significant wins, painful losses, and the passing of respected elders in the public sphere. In this conversation, our guest Zahid ...

Karura Forest, Nairobi’s iconic urban green haven, has recently become the focus of a management dispute between the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) and Friends of Karura Forest (FKF). The disagreement ...

In 1989, when he was the deputy speaker of parliament, Kalonzo Musyoka, the former vice president and now an opposition leader, was a man who would not brook criticism of the one-party state under ...

“Don’t tell me about the valley of the shadow of death. I live there.”- Mumia Abu-Jamal. Death has its truths. One of which is permanence. It signifies that the life gone is never returning. This is a ...

The territorial ambitions of Ethiopia – or, more accurately, Abyssinia (present-day northern Ethiopia comprising the Tigray and Amhara regions) – are deep-rooted. They emanate from the thinking that ...

This cross-border investigation follows ArcelorMittal’s steel route —from African mines to European plants and Latin American sacrifice zones— showing how the global pursuit of so-called “green steel” ...

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What the Russian military action in Ukraine and the Palestinian military action in Gaza have in common is the application of raw power. Russia has been able to impose its will on the Ukrainian ...

What happens after the protests? How do you translate protests into policy? In this episode, Shakira Wafula walks us through the various strands that give the active citizen a pathway to reform, even ...

Chidi Anselm Odinkalu teaches at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Massachusetts and can be reached at [email protected].