US President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to withdraw American troops from Somalia where the US military is fighting al-Shabaab, the local affiliate of the al Qaeda terrorist group. The move will unwittingly lead the US to cede strategic ground...
Despite major foreign players in the telecommunications sector making large investments in Sub-Saharan Africa, this market populated by 1.1 billion inhabitants remains a minefield. As regulatory inconsistencies including political interference from government functionaries linger on as intractable bogeymen, creating a...
Derek Chauvin, 44, a white police officer at the U.S Minneapolis Police Department has now been caught up in the labyrinthine issue of geopolitics involving Sub-Saharan Africa and the world’s largest economy at a time when China’s growing influence in...
Africa’s Sub-Sahara region’s burgeoning debt is creating a wedge between the Bretton Woods Institutions and other lenders with China singled out for perpetrating a debt–trap that has soared by nearly 150% in the past 10 years, making the continent’s debt...
U.S. sanctions that have strangulated Sudan’s economy for the past 23-years are likely to soon be lifted, after the impoverished northeastern African country grudgingly acceded to paying $30 million as compensation to 17 American sailors who died in 2000 when...
An American-brokered deal is now set to end a nine-year-old stalemate involving three regional powers in Africa that has delayed construction of the continent’s biggest hydroelectric power plant and dam. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Begun in 2011, the construction...
Former Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi was the embodiment of the African strongman, whose 24 year reign exemplified the excess associated with autocracy. But when he eventually died this February 4 in a Nairobi hospital, the jury was magnanimous, crediting...
Ethiopia, Africa’s oldest independent nation will this August 16 hold competitive national elections for the first time in 30 years. But the country’s fragmented opposition is casting aspersions on the putative exercise leading close Addis Ababa watchers to question whether...
It’s unlikely warring parties in South Sudan will beat a February 22 deadline by when the formation of a transitional government of national unity is expected after the country’s main opposition group said it would not participate in the exercise...
Twenty-one Kenyans have been killed by the Al-Shabaab terrorist group since December last year, a telling indication that the Somali-based criminally inclined group has rebooted its murderous streak, leading the Administration of President Uhuru Kenyatta to change track in countering...
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