Uhuru Kenyatta, President of the Republic of Kenya and Alassane Ouattara, President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, will participate in the fourth edition...
Neuroscience offers hope for developing new treatments for Parkinson’s disease. Shutterstock
January 18, 2016
My life changed on a cold, dark, rainy January morning in...
January 15, 2016-The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned that journalists in Uganda are being prevented from freely covering Parliament and campaigning for next...
Burundi’s president (centre) on a visit in 2014. He would do well to meet now for peace talks. Ilyas A. Abukar/AMISOM Public Information
January 15,...
Supporters of South Africa’s governing ANC at the party’s 104 anniversary celebration in Rustenburg. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko
When language is alive and searches for new ways...
January 11, 2016
Many people aspire to live a middle class life. Once they attain it, sustaining it is a big challenge. Shutterstock
Many people are...
Ethnic tensions at Kenya’s universities are not new. But the intensity is increasing, and ethnicity is interfering with how universities are run. Reuters
There were high...
The world was surprised when the usually peaceful country of Mali suffered a coup in 2012. Reuters/Joe Penneyn
July 13, 2015
By Michael Bratton and...
By Stefan Wolff
In 2011 South Sudan became the 193rd United Nations member state. This was met by a great deal of local celebration and...
July 8, 2015
By Laura Czerniewicz
If the world were mapped according to how many scientific research papers each country produced, it would take on...