VICTORIA SABULA, Chief Executive Officer of the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) talks about the benefits and challenges of guiding and financing women-owned businesses that struggle to access commercial funding in high-risk economies. Why and when was AECF created why did it…
In June, Eritrea rejoined the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) after 16 years of political isolation. Eritrea had suspended its membership from IGAD in April 2007 to protest that the regional body was under the firm grip of Ethiopia—with whom Eritrea had…
A simple, one-room library at the heart of Mathare slums in Nairobi is gaining popularity for helping the poor youth study and gain focus in life amidst poverty and desperation. The Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) Library, founded in 2005 by the…
Peace monitors in South Sudan have issued five conditions that will enable the country to hold elections in the next 18 months amid challenges in the implementation of the 2018 peace agreement, and as simmering violence is yet to be fully contained. …
There is excitement in Mogadishu that Somalia could soon join the seven-member East African Community despite the country having not met some of the key criteria. Just like the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that was admitted to DRC, the process of…
An international human rights group is accusing the Ethiopian government of engaging in ethnic cleansing, torture, arbitrary detention, and expulsion of people who were displaced by the in Western Tigray, despite the war having ended on November 2, 2022—six months ago. A…
When Eritrean president Isaias Afewerki landed in Beijing for an official visit to China on May 14, it opened a new chapter in Eritrea’s relations with the world since the United Nations imposed economic sanctions on the country in 2009. The UN…
Kenya is experiencing a resurgence of organised gangs that were banned 20 years ago, but are back because of the divisive ethnic-based politics. A new report by ENACT-Africa wars that the country could find itself in a situation where it would not…
While most people all over the world believe that the conflict in Sudan is about the power struggle between the chairman of the Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman al-Burhan and his deputy, Gen Muhammed Dagalo,their several countries that are fueling the war…
Eritrea having a pariah nation for about 11 years is now making peace with its neighbours. Eritrea withdrew from the Inter Governmental Authority on Development, ( IGAD) in 2007 after Ethiopia and United Nations accused it supplying Al Shabaab with weapons in…
