Kenya walks tightrope as finance minister allays fears over foreign debts, shrinking hard currency reserves
Njuguna Ndung’u was responding to a research note by US investment bank JPMorgan which said on Tuesday that the East African nation was “walking a tightrope” to avoid a crisis due to a maturing dollar bond and persistent currency weakness.
East Africa becomes world’s leading illicit arms market as conflict and terrorism peak
Save for Tanzania, all the other countries in East Africa – especially those closer to the Indian Ocean – had an index of 7+ in illicit arms trafficking with the Somalia, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan and Eritrea at the summit. The high incidence, the report says, is related to internecine civil strife that make it difficult to enforce domestic laws or police the countries with the help of international law.
It’s not just the economy, stupid! What was off-key about the Africa Climate Summit in Kenya
The fact that Africa suffers disproportionately from the crisis – 17 of the 20 worst-hit countries are located on the continent even though it accounts for less than 4 per cent of global emissions – was prominently repeated at the conference.
African Union announces second drawdown of its military mission in Somalia by 3,000 troops
Speaking at the handover, ATMIS Bio Cadale commander, Lieutenant Colonel Philippe Butoyi, called the transfer “a testament to Somalia’s leadership in rebuilding the country, protecting the population and ensuring security and stability”.
Kenya terms KDF joint patrols with South African army in eastern DR Congo ‘significant development’
What the Kenya’s Ministry of Defence termed “a significant development” saw soldiers from the East African country part of a joint patrol with colleagues in arms from South Africa on the Beni-Eringeti main supply route (MSR) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Congolese component of the Kenyan patrol...
Fountain of reason: Revisiting Uganda’s Age of Enlightenment when it was revered as the Pearl of Africa
Public intellectuals have long used and engaged with the arts to communicate ideas about power, identity and society. Public intellectuals have long used and engaged with the arts to communicate ideas about power, identity and society.
Kinshasa raises alarm yet again over Rwandan aggression as 2.3m people uprooted from homes
UN experts have also accused Rwanda of supporting the rebel force, and in July, the EU condemned the country’s military presence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Why ecological science should be a priority for Africans and their policy makers in 21st century
When I say leaders, I don’t mean political leaders, although what they do and say while blaming the people at the periphery of society, is the main reason why nature has deteriorated. Decayed and collapsed nature is now violating our very existence and survival everywhere on the globe.
President Museveni is adept at choosing opponents, Bobi Wine seems set to tough it out with his son Muhoozi
The president was certainly not sleeping, although acting normally: loving his son the same, only disarming him while coming close to him, and even making him the best man in his recent 50-year marriage. anniversary.
Are Allied Democratic Forces rebels an Islamic outfit or a bunch of rapists masquerading as mujahidin?
the public wrongly perceived FRONASA, RPF and NRA rebels to be Muslims, which was not true. People like Haji Abdu Nadduli were few in the rebel ranks. The overwhelming majority were Rwandese and Ugandan Christians. It was a good strategy. It earned the rebels enormous sympathy and moral and financial support domestically and internationally, although they were also strongly supported by the Anglo-American axis of global power
