A letter after visiting hyper-alert Nairobi
TENDAI MARIMA ponders how much has changed in Kenya as a result of the attacks by Al-Shabaab, and whether the increased security measures are...
Readers, authors show support for ill Binyavanga Wainaina
Beloved Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina is seriously ill following a stroke and has travelled to India for treatment. AAISHA DADI PATEL explains.
The author who...
For better or worse, Zimbabweans keep surviving
Zimbabwe may be in political and economic disarray but its people are still standing, and they owe their continued resilience to an unyielding entrepreneurial spirit,...
Banned in his own country and forced to leave SA under...
LEGESSE SEIFU, a 46-year-old Ethiopian asylum seeker, has been ordered to get out of the country before 28 May (tomorrow) by the South African department...
Africa Day: unity in a time of “legitimised xenophobia”
Members of government used Africa Day, which is commemorated on 25 May each year, to call for unity and an end to xenophobic violence...
#BringBackOurGirls: A year on and the Chibok girls are still missing
On 14 April 2014, 276 girls were kidnapped from their boarding school in Chibok, Nigeria, by the terrorist group Boko Haram. It has been...
Garissa: the Kenyan town attacked by Al Shabaab
Bodies are still being recovered from Garissa University College in Kenya, where Al Shabaab gunmen are holding students hostage. As the devastating tragedy unfolds,...
Saving lives – and limbs – on the DRC/CAR border
Shot in the leg by members of the Séléka militia troops, with a bullet that shattered her tibia, passed through her body and grazed...
Children fall victim to state ineptitude and capitalist land-grab in Kenya
Kenya found its way into the international media for all wrong reasons last week.
Images of Kenyan police brutally breaking up a demonstration by young children waving twigs,...
South African government condemns violence in Kenya
Government has denounced the violence in Kenya following the murder of 36 Kenyan workers in an attack at the Mandera quarry. The bodies were...
Kenyans wear miniskirts to protest woman’s assault over clothing choice [VIDEO]
Last week, a video of a Kenyan woman being attacked by a group of men went viral on social media. The footage shows the...
Zambians lay President Michael Sata to rest
Lusaka, Zambia - Zambia's President Michael Sata was given a warm sendoff by mourners at Heroes Stadium yesterday, when he was finally laid to...
Beau Blaise: The peacebroker or warmonger of Burkina Faso?
Over the past decade, France, in furtherance of its neo-colonial aspirations in West Africa, has portrayed Blaise Compaore, the recently-deposed president of Burkina Faso,...
10 reasons why mobile rocks in Africa
Mobile use in Africa is expected to increase 20-fold in the next five years. Despite unreliable electricity and a lack of physical connectivity, Africans...
Central African Republic: Africa’s forgotten conflict
A year ago, South Africa couldn't turn its eyes away from the Central African Republic (CAR). Fourteen of our soldiers had been killed as...
Editorial: Why should we turn the other cheek?
Between the deaths of 84 South Africans in the collapse of a building belonging to the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in Nigeria,...
The Westgate Mall attack: One year later, no less senseless or...
It was Saturday, 21 September 2013, and I had just finished presenting the midday bulletin at our Nairobi studios when I read the first...
