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JOHANNESBURG - From US President Donald Trump reacting to South Africa’s successful hosting of the G20 Summit to bags of…
Kenya’s new 5 per cent penalty on employers who fail to remit student-loan deductions has drawn criticism as an inadequate…
Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Burkina Faso: a shared history collides with political fractures | African Arguments …
In March 2026, Kenya flagged off the first consignment of Kenyan exports to China under the Kenya–China Early Harvest Agreement. …
Kenya has long possessed the ingredients needed to become one of Africa's leading economic powers. Its strategic position along…
Despite lacking political power themselves, refugees’ vulnerability has been converted into value by those with power, writes Yohannes Woldemariam. Refugees…
On a December morning in 2007, Kenyans woke up to one of the country's biggest financial scandals. Hundreds of thousands…
Africa steps into this new year standing at an inflection point, one defined not by what the world once promised…
Scenes during post-election violence in Kawangware, Nairobi on October 27, 2017.[File, Standard] Kenya has walked this dangerous road before,…
John Quinn‘s Majority State Ownership of Oil and Mining Sectors in Africa examines how nationalising natural resources shaped the economic…