[John Githongo, CEO, Inuka Kenya Trust, and a former Permanent Secretary in the last government, made these remarks at the opening of the 4th Human Rights Watch Film Festival, 10 – 14 November 2014, Nairobi.">
Ladies and gentlemen, all protocols observed...
“How do different interest groups define and protect their diverse interests?” – Sufian Bukurura and Donald Mmari on ‘Hydrocarbon Resources in Tanzania’
[Dr Pamela Caro is a director of the Program of Labor Citizenship with the Women’s Development Research Center (CEDEM), a Chilean non-governmental organization that supports peasant women in Latin America as they join the international feminist movement
Do the rich and poor eat the same? Do our incomes determine our diet? Today, who is overweight?
Rather than enhance the newly-created institutions which facilitated his march to the presidency, Ernest Koroma is actually destroying the country’s newborn democracy, thanks to his proclivity for acting like the president of a one-party dictatorship.
It is easy to dismiss Moses Kuria.
Those following South Sudan’s political developments in the news will likely have become aware in recent weeks of a controversial new bill relating to the National Security Service (NSS).
There are instances when I agree with the ideals, principles and vision of pan-African activists that include, but are not limited to, the late Libyan strongman Muammar Gadhafi, former South African president Thabo Mbeki, and Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe on African renaissance.
At the time of writing this article, 29 October , the official death toll from the Ebola epidemic, mostly in part of West Africa (Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia), is 4,922. The actual death toll may be substantially higher as many people are being sent home to die.
Eastern African politicians and bureaucrats owe their citizens at least one thing this decade: to prioritize and fast track the formation of the East African Community. They killed it in 1977; they shouldn’t take another generation to revive it. Why?