Pope Leo XIV’s first official trip to Africa started with a fascinating stop in Algeria. Here, the pontiff’s visit to the Grand Mosque of Algiers was an attempt to strengthen Christian-Muslim ...

As turmoil grips the Middle East and tensions involving Iran deepen, global attention is shifting – rapidly and predictably – away from Sudan. This is familiar terrain. Sudan has long suffered from ...

The average Kenyan does not speak in policy. Most policies that are tabled, often, if not always, go over people’s heads, not because people can’t read, but because there is simply too much going on ...

Hungarian voters have overwhelmingly rejected the 16-year rule of authoritarian strongman Viktor Orbán, electing his one-time political ally, Péter Magyar, to replace him. Magyar’s Tisza party has ...

Kenya is facing its second wave of austerity measures, dictated by international lenders, chiefly the IMF and the World Bank. It is a reality so stark that younger generations of Kenyans have been ...

Not known for adhering to any particular lasting strategy, Trump sees each day in the White House as an episode in a reality show in which he seeks an advantage over his rivals, if not to vanquish ...

Out of a population of more than 36 million, only 22 million Kenyans were registered to vote, and just 14 million actually cast their ballots. Political apathy in Kenya is not a new phenomenon. As ...

Natasha W. Muhanji is a Kenyan writer and editor. Her writing has previously appeared or is forthcoming on Brittle Paper, The Kalahari Review.

On the afternoon of Tuesday, 6 September 2022, at exactly 1:40 p.m., a crowd gathered outside Terminal 1A at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). Under ordinary circumstances, one would ...

Banking in Kenya dates back to the pre-colonial periods. The first banks largely concentrated on financing international trade along the Europe-South Africa–India axis, but later diversified ...

The lack of a focused policy since the 1990s has pushed the cashew nut sector into perennial decline. The sector’s disintegration started when the state-owned Kenya Cashewnut factory ollapsed in 1997 ...

June marks six months since the East African Community Heads of State Summit agreed to send an East African Community Regional Force (EACRF) to the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo to ...