Across Africa, taxation is increasingly being repackaged as reform. The language is polished—efficiency, transparency, domestic resource mobilization. Yet behind the technocratic gloss lies a troubling reality:...
Something dangerous and dishonestly simple has been spreading across parts of Africa in recent years: the idea that the barracks are a legitimate answer to political...
Across Africa, millions are trapped in cycles of debt, excluded from mainstream finance, and left vulnerable to predatory lending. Yet a powerful alternative exists — Islamic...
The United Nations Security Council’s adoption of the latest resolution on Gaza has been heralded in some capitals as a historic turning point — a diplomatic...
As the 30th UN Climate Conference convened in Belém, Brazil, the planet itself delivered its most urgent testimony. In 2024, global temperatures rose to approximately 1.55–1.6°C...
When Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stood before a map marking four-fifths of the West Bank for annexation, he did more than unveil a policy plan...
Across the continent, elections have become coronations. From Tanzania to Guinea, power is recycled through manipulation, courts, and guns — not consent. The price is paid...
The ceasefire in Gaza arrives as a fragile, much-needed pause in a conflict whose human toll is unconscionable. When US President Donald Trump strode into the...
Sixty-five years ago, on October 1, 1960, Nigeria emerged from colonial rule amid great hopes. The world saw a promising union of hundreds of ethnicities, rich...
Donald Trump’s newly unveiled 20-point peace proposal for Gaza is, at first blush, a grand gesture. It speaks of ceasefire, hostage exchange, reconstruction, and a technocratic...
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