Haiti was largely food secure until mid-1980s when US and foreign agencies forced it to liberalise its economy
Hunger was never far away when Angeline Annesteus was growing up. The daughter of subsistence farmers in Bercy, southern Haiti, she remembers going for days without much food. That was more than 30 years ago. Food insecurity is even more pressing now. Around 4.3 million people, more than one in...
Planned 2023 elections is a remote hope in South Sudan where violence is the currency in which political power is traded
Loans from the International Monetary Fund over the last two years have helped stave off a total collapse of the government of South Sudan, but the state has nevertheless almost entirely withdrawn from the provision of services and wages for regional authorities. In Warrap, the government is conspicuous by its...
As world grapples with ever-mutating Covid, new highly virulent HIV variant found circulating in Europe
A highly transmissible and damaging variant of HIV has been circulating in the Netherlands for decades, researchers have found. An analysis of more than 100 infected people suggests that the variant boosts the number of viral particles in a person’s blood, making them more likely to transmit the virus. The...
South Sudan: We won’t get to elections, the only people who want elections are international community…it’ll be disaster
Keen to proclaim South Sudan as on the cusp of becoming a peaceful country, international actors have claimed that there has been a marked reduction in political violence since the signing of a peace agreement in 2018 and the formation of a power-sharing government two years later. But analysts, conflict...
Africa’s coup jinx: Democracy has produced elites beholden to nepotism, cronyism, corruption, opulence and highhandedness
The resurgence of coups in Africa is a matter that troubles and frightens all of us. Within nine months, West Africa has witnessed successful coups in Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso and a fourth apparent failed attempt in Guinea-Bissau on February 1, 2022, during a cabinet meeting and which Guinea-Bissau President...
New national women team’s coach Alimurah is confident Harambee Starlets will shine over Uganda
Kenya’s national women’s football team Harambee Starlets coach Alex Alumirah has expressed confidence that his charges will prevail over Uganda’s Crested Cranes in Kampala, Uganda, in the upcoming Africa Women Cup of Nations qualifier. Alumirah says that after the confusion that had affected Harambee Starts’ qualification was put to...
AFC Leopards quality of football is 30 years ahead of other Kenya Premier League teams – coach Patrick Aussems
AFC Leopards’ quality of football is 30 years ahead of other clubs in Kenya Premier League, says coach Patrick Aussems, who has been at the helm of football giants’ technical bench for two seasons. Speaking to Tell Television at the club’s training ground at Camp Toyoyo in Jericho Estate, Nairobi,...
World hits new milestone as 10 billion Covid vaccines are administered in remarkably short time
More than 10 billion doses have gone into arms in a remarkably short period of time, but scientists warn that woeful inequities in access remain. A health worker administers a Covid-19 vaccination to a teenage school pupil at a rural school in Zimbabwe In little more than a year, 10...
‘Future of Gor Mahia’ is assured’ Gor Mahia’s new coach Spier says and promises ‘big impact’
Gor Mahia’s new coach Andreas Spier has promised to transform the Kenyan giants into a cohesive and ‘big impact’ team capable of talking on the best in Africa. Talking exclusively to Tell, less than 12 hours after touching down in Kenya, the German coach said his initial assessment of the...
Cybercrime: More often in Africa, states crack down on whistle-blowers who use government data to report crime
Digital repression is on the rise in many parts of Africa. Over a dozen African countries have recently experienced politically motivated internet shutdowns. Roughly the same number have been identified as operators of military-grade spyware (such as Pegasus, RCS and FinFisher), which they use to track domestic political opponents and...
