Why has Kenya president obscured details of $3.8 billion railway contract with China?
As you are aware, in May 2014, the government of Kenya signed a $3.8 billion contract with China Roads and Bridges Corporation (CRBC) for the construction of the standard gauge railway from Mombasa to Nairobi and on to Naivasha. According to news reports, 85 per cent of the construction cost...
Race to militarise artificial intelligence is the biggest threat to world peace
A race to militarise artificial intelligence is gearing up. Two years ago, the US Congress created the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI). This March, it recommended that the United States must accelerate artificial-intelligence (AI) technologies to preserve national security and remain competitive with China and Russia. This will...
Take note: Whether we like it or not, working from home is here to stay
Working from home – formally known as telework – is here to stay. A 2021 survey of approximately 30,000 Americans concluded that, after the pandemic, 20 per cent of all work days may continue to take place at home, versus just five per cent before. This is likely welcome news...
We in Africa should just let women lead, focus more on managing our economies
.There is a big benefit when a country skips the social upheaval and goes straight to pro-women policies. We in Africa must take an aggressive shortcut through history. We can learn from Rwanda. I’m not saying life is perfect in any of these places, but they’ve moved in the right...
How long are we in Africa going to use our hardships as excuses not to move forward?
Over the last 30 days President Samia Suluhu Hassan has become the most important woman in the African energy industry. She has taken some of the most courageous steps in rebooting Tanzania’s energy sector and economy. The signing of the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline with President Yoweri Museveni of...
Total’s ‘force majeure’ action on Maputo calls for dialogue, firewall against terror
We are disappointed about Total’s recent decision to declare force majeure on its Mozambique LNG Project. While the African Energy Chamber stands in solidarity with Mozambique and Total all energy investors, we believe the declaration of force majeure could have been prevented and comes prematurely. We encourage all parties involved...
Oil pipeline: Uganda, Tanzania have new policies to protect national interests
Facts and truth can be stubborn for those who believe foreign aid, begging and immigration to Europe should be the only way out for African youth. Of course, these jobs won’t all last forever. Many of them will involve construction or related activities, and these will naturally come to an...
Greenpeace, Western anti-Africa energy groups wrong on EA crude oil pipeline
If someone were to put me on the spot and ask me to name an environmentalist group, I’d probably blurt out the first thing that comes to mind, Greenpeace. There are obvious reasons for this: Greenpeace has been around for more than 50 years, and it has done a masterful...
We owe early HIV fighters gratitude for changing how we respond to health crises
It’s been just over a year since the World Health Organisation declared a worldwide pandemic – on March 11, 2020 – and only a few months since Pfizer and BioNTech released data showing their vaccine was highly effective at preventing Covid-19, with other companies following soon after. Merely weeks after...
Dear Presidents Museveni, Suluhu: Your ill-advised pipeline project only benefit Total
As you were signing the long-awaited contract that will finally allow the construction of the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline – Africa’s longest crude oil pipeline – hundreds of young people, activists, environmentalists and ordinary citizens from all over the world, including representatives from East Africa, were gathered online for...
