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Cult and politics

The discovery last month of mass graves bearing the bodies of more than 130 people near the popular tourist town of Malindi has shocked Kenyans. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul...


What does Raila Odinga want?

The opposition leader has got the talks he demanded but that may not keep his supporters off the streets

After weeks of insisting that there would be no compromise and no 'handshake'-style deal with veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga, President William Ruto followed his two immediate predecessors...


How the generals blew up the transition

The outbreak of all-out war in Khartoum has produced an indelible conclusion – that the armed forces are incapable of governing the country

In full view of diplomats and international organisations in Khartoum, the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had been preparing for battle for several...

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Ruto's credit slumps amid cash flow crisis

Public sector wages arrears have exposed the scale of the government's debt burden and revenue problems

The failure to pay the March wages of civil servants, teachers and politicians has blown a hole in the economic management record of President William Ruto's government after...


The price of peace

Following the successful November peace process in South Africa between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the Zanzibar talks due to start...


Mediators proliferate as fighting intensifies and more flee Khartoum

Efforts to end the conflict are struggling amid the humanitarian crisis and communications breakdown in Khartoum

An abundance of mediators – including the African Union (AU), the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the UN, the Gulf States, the United States, the European Union and...


Abiy disarms regional forces and riles his old backers

Having fought as allies during the war with Tigray, federal forces are now clashing with Amhara nationalists

Growing local suspicions of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's ties with Tigray and Oromo nationalists have coalesced into a mutiny against the federal government's efforts to rein in the...


Abiy tries to exploit Orthodox schism

Many Copts see the government's hand in the split of Oromo priests from the mainstream Church. But the Church’s Amhara leaders are fighting back

A religious division that threatened to deepen the ethno-nationalist conflicts already threatening the federation began in January and has been waxing and waning, with more arrests and protests...


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