Author: Dennis Kahohi

Talk of US involvement in Somalia, and the first images that come to mind are drones, firefights, bombs, death and destruction. ‘Black Hawk Down,’ anyone? Yet,…

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has long claimed that his country’s military forays into the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are necessitated by security concerns. Kagame…

Following a people-backed 2022 military coup d’état that ousted a Western-aligned leader, Burkina Faso ramped industrialisation to put food sovereignty at the forefront of its development…

Following the 1884 Berlin Conference, European powers went on a brutal rampage, claiming African territories for themselves. Part of Italy’s piece of the pie was modern-day…

In this 14 February interview with Netherlands-based NGO The Rights Forum, Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, explained why…

A sombre mood engulfed the Namibian capital, Windhoek, on Friday, 28 February, 2025, as thousands gathered to give a final salute to the nation’s founding father…

This week marks 140 years since European colonial powers divided Africa. For three months, starting on 15 November 1884, colonialists from almost every European country, the…

A grenade explosion at a rally organised by M23 rebels in eastern DRC’s second city of Bukavu has reportedly killed dozens and injured around 60. The…

Niger is reclaiming control over its natural resources by granting mining permits to two local companies, the Research and Exploitation Mineral Company (Comirex SA) and Aïr…

Over the past two weeks, two French officials visited the disputed territory of Western Sahara as guests of Morocco, enraging many, including the Algerian government and…