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CAF is failing Africa’s World Cup fans

The confederation’s silence on US travel bans and visa restrictions for African fans is shameful.

Senegal fans cheer before the FIFA World Cup Round of 16 match against England at Al Bayt Stadium in Qatar, December 2022

Can Kenya emerge as a role model on refugees?

Its new law – if implemented well – could improve access to education, work and movement for half a million refugees.

South Sudanese volunteers prepare food for refugees at Kalobeyei Primary school within Kalobeyei Settlement outside the Kakuma refugee camp in Turkana county, northwest of Nairobi, Kenya, January 31, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Further militarisation will not end Mozambique’s insurgency

Sending more soldiers and weapons to northern Mozambique would only serve to exacerbate the problem.

Mozambican army

Why the results of Somali elections are crucial for the region

Somalia’s most recent political impasse will have significant consequences for its neighbours, Kenya and Ethiopia.

Supporters of different opposition presidential candidates demonstrate in Mogadishu on February 19, 2021. [AFP]

Abiy’s efforts to unify Ethiopia could lead to its disintegration

Abiy Ahmed’s quest to bring all Ethiopians together through increased centralisation is tearing the country apart.

Tigrayans who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region are seen at Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, on November 27, 2020 [AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty]

Somalia: Kenya’s foreign policy failure

Major foreign policy mistakes Kenya has made threaten to unravel its relations with Somalia and endanger its security.

Somalia''s Sheikh Ahmed Madob

Are Ethiopians blinded by Abiymania?

African nations have heard talk of democracy before from the likes of Museveni and Afwerki. Will Abiy be different?

Abiy Ahmed Reuters

Is African football talent finally coming back to Africa?

More and more European-born players of African descent are returning home, but Africa’s ‘muscle drain’ is far from over.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Reuters

The ugly truth about wildlife conservation in Kenya

Kenya’s colonial wildlife conservation system is displacing native pastoralist communities from their historic lands.

Kenya conservancy

The trap of insecurity: Extrajudicial killings in Kenya

Kenya’s failed security policies have led to a string of extrajudicial killings in the past decades.