Bill Gates plays God in Africa’s agriculture and gets it wrong
Agra’s drive for a ‘green revolution’ has reduced crop diversity, created a dependency on commercial seeds and fertiliser and increased vulnerability to drought
Abiy Ahmed biography is an intimate, unsettling portrait of the man who would be emperor
Tom Gardner offers a compelling analysis of how the Ethiopian prime minister ruthlessly exploited tensions between regions and ethnic groups to gain power
This is (still) ANC country
The big takeaway from this election is less about the weaknesses of the ruling party and more about its enduring strength
Africa’s biggest-ever media deal opens the door to far-right nonsense
If the biggest-ever media deal in Africa is successful, a French billionaire with a track record of buying media to promote far-right ideologies will have access to tens of millions of African homes
Nobel peace laureate: ‘More money in lies than in truth’
Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa has taken up the fight against deepfake, a threat to journalism and democracy
World court agreed that Israel is on the wrong side of history
South Africa’s case against Israel’s actions in Gaza has boosted its international standing and secured its position as the moral voice of the Global South
Abiy’s port in a storm
Landlocked Ethiopia wants a port, any port. Somaliland has a coastline and wants someone to recognise the self-governing territory as a fully-fledged country. So a deal was made that could redraw the map. But everyone else objects
The world is brutally indifferent to the DRC’s democracy
The country’s future is inextricably intertwined with that of the planet itself. That is not necessarily a good thing
The arms dealer behind the African peace mission to Ukraine
A weapons manufacturer on a peace mission. What could possibly go wrong?
African researchers warn against AI hype
If anything, the programmes in their current incarnation are more like sophisticated parrots, incapable of original thought