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Northern Kenya’s disarmament dilemma
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 30th January 2024 Banditry and the proliferation of illegal small arms are critical drivers of insecurity in Kenya’s North Rift Region. Survey-derived baselines... →
Ruto under pressure? Verifying eight claims on Kenya’s economy and its population
By: Africa Check 30th January 2024 Kenya’s debt burden remains an issue of national debate, as picked up by the artificial intelligence (AI) tool Africa Check uses to monitor public... →
South Africa is failing people who aren’t poor, but aren’t middle class either
30th January 2024 Many South African households are trapped. They are neither poor nor middle class. As a demographic they hover above the indigence threshold... →
UN genocide ruling won’t change Israel’s behaviour: three reasons why
29th January 2024 South Africa took Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the latter’s military operation in Gaza, which South Africa calls acts of... →
Matric results: South Africa’s record school pass rates aren’t what they seem – what’s really happening in the education system
29th January 2024 South Africa’s matric (grade 12) class of 2023, which wrote final school-leaving exams late last year, has been hailed by the country’s minister of... →
Jacob Zuma, the monster South Africa’s ruling ANC created, continues to haunt it
29th January 2024 Former South African president Jacob Zuma is endorsing the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Party, the latest rival to the governing African National... →
Nigeria’s youth unemployment rate at 53.4%? Cryptocurrency firm goes wrong
By: Africa Check 29th January 2024 In January 2024, cryptocurrency company Pioneers shared a list of youth unemployment rates in different countries on X, the social media platform... →
Blinken’s Africa trip loops in new Atlantic Ocean partners
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 26th January 2024 United States (US) Secretary of State Antony Blinken has taken time off from his hectic shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East to visit four African... →
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel is the country’s proudest foreign policy moment in three decades
26th January 2024 On 11 January 2024, South Africa hauled Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the charge of violating the 1948 Genocide... →
Looser gun laws could deepen Nigeria’s security crisis
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 26th January 2024 Despite Nigeria’s strict gun ownership laws, the country remains the region’s largest illicit small arms market, adding to the nation’s dire... →
