WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus commenting on the Ebola spread in DR Congo laments that “Just when we start to get control of the virus in one area, it appears in another.” T...

The unfolding scenario in South Africa, East Africa and the Horn brings to test the African Solutions to African Problems mantra. This week, riots broke out in South Africa after hundreds of...

We are pretty pre-occupied with politics.  Our life is consumed with political rumours. Social media posts are awash with ADP said this; Jawar Mohammed said that; Lemma Megersa said this: Ge...

Somalia’s coast has become home to illegal fishing and toxic wastes. It’s difficult to expose every illegal maritime activity in Somalia waters but I would like to shed some light on the luc...

There is a Setswana expression which goes, Bantlhoi ba kana ka banthati whose literal translation means, those who hate me are the same in number as those who love me. Hence the subject of t...

The idea that Africa’s youth bulge is the key to sustained economic growth—a so-called demographic dividend—is a popular talking point for aging African leaders who coopt such language in an...

Since the beginning of this century, the world is going from crisis to crisis. They are political, commercial, diplomatic, military. But also migratory, energetic, sanitary, or food related....

The key to raising economic growth is to stimulate potential needs and further provide goods and services for which people are willing to pay. According to Schumpeter, firms need to make inn...