Sudan has been in crisis all along from the time of independence. Though there was a promising start in the immediate post-independence years, the Sudanese hope for a better future was quickly dashed. The 1980s...
William Ruto
Kenya’s supreme court declares William Ruto election winner
On 5 September, Kenya’s supreme court upheld results declaring William Ruto the winner of August’s presidential elections. The fifth time was still not a charm for Raila Odinga as he challenged his presidential...
Kenya comes full circle
Kenya African National Union makes a comeback In 2002, the Kenya African National Union (KANU), the ruling party in Kenya since independence from Great Britain in 1963, fielded a relative greenhorn as its presidential...
COVID-19: In Kenya, social media are aflame
One rule for the ruler… The Kenyan Twitterverse turned into a furnace on 15 June after the Kenyan opposition leader, Raila Odinga, displayed his Covid-19 test results on social media and appealed to the people to take...
Sudan: playing the anti-Western card
The International Criminal Court (ICC) charges against Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, have shaped Sudanese domestic politics and the country’s external relations for more than half a decade — sometimes in...
Divided since 1963
Ethnic factionalism in Kenya results in skewed allocation of resources and opportunities towards majority tribespeople Last year three Kenyan universities closed indefinitely after a poisonous division emerged between...
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