Browsing: East Africa

On 11 January, armed assailants broke into the home of the general secretary of the ‘Communist Party Marxist – Kenya’ (CPM-K). Booker Omole says they intended…

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has raised concerns about Kenya’s Operation Support Unit (OSU), accusing it of carrying out a wave of abductions similar to those perpetrated…

Civil-society organisations reported at least eight deaths across Mozambique as the country’s new president, Daniel Chapo, was sworn in on 15 January at a low-key ceremony…

The grim reaper is sweeping Kenyan social media – where a ‘funeral cortège’ of AI-generated images of a dead President William Ruto has gone viral. Some…

The Kenya Human Rights Commission, along with several other rights groups, has raised concerns regarding the rise in abductions in Kenya. In a recent case, five…

Kenya’s controversial policing mission to Haiti – launched mid-last year at the bidding of the US – has so far failed in its stated goal of…

Millions of Ethiopian Orthodox faithful celebrate Christmas almost two weeks after much of the rest of the world, in keeping with the Julian calendar. Christianity arrived…

Askari is a common word used throughout East Africa, but the word has dark origins. Askaris described native African soldiers and Indian soldiers, who served in…

Tourism and conservation have been designed to advance the White man’s agenda. That’s the verdict of Mordecai Ogada, an animal ecology and conservation policy expert who…

Everyone is familiar with the term “Karen,” but have you heard of the mother of all Karens? Her name is Karen Blixen. She was a Danish…