PeaceA Public Appeal for Peaceful Dialogue, Democracy and the Rule of Law
Geo-politicsThe General Assembly voted 164 to one to draw the world closer to its true proportions. Only Washington objected — and the question Africa should put is not how the vote went, but why it was opposed at all.
Geo-politicsPresident Ruto’s Announcement on Foreign Retail Traders: What Does It Mean for the East African Community?
Geo-politicsFrom Nkrumah’s Unfinished Vision to a United Africa
Geo-politicsOne vote, 450 Years: Africa rewrites the world map
Episode 1Peace, War and the Search for a Political SolutionDr. Aldo Ajou Deng-Akuey reflects on South Sudan's journey from liberation to independence, the conflicts that followed, and the continuing search for lasting peace.Dr. Aldo Ajou Deng-Akuey
Episode 2Coming soonThe Constitution Before the BallotA permanent constitution was promised before the country votes. What is actually drafted, who is in the room, and what happens to the December timetable if the text is not ready.Rebecca Nyandeng Lual · Peter Garang Deng
Episode 3Coming soonWho Owns the River?Eleven countries, one river, and a set of colonial-era agreements nobody signed up to. How the Nile basin negotiates water now that the dams are built.Amina Tesfaye · Joseph LomoroListen on
Geo-politicsKenya’s Expulsion of Small Traders Exposes Africa’s Unpreparedness for Visa-Free BordersKenya’s President William Ruto has stirred considerable controversy across the region with an unprecedented directive targeting small-scale foreign traders accused of occupying…
GovernanceBeyond Majority Rule: The Case for Pan-African DemocracyLiberal democracy as a system of governance has long been championed by Western powers and their allies, and in many cases strongly imposed on African countries during and after…
Geo-politicsAfrica Must Not Be Caught in the New Cold War of SuperpowersThe African Continental Unity: The world is definitely changing. The Cold War came in 1945-1991, and went. The USA unipolarity emerged from 1991-2001 (9/11 or so).The Republic of South Sudan: We need, as South Sudanese, to avoid personal blames and counter blames.
The Republic of South Sudan: Present generation of the 20th and partly early 21st centuries of South Sudanese, were born, brought up and educated in war zones of Southern Sudan or…
The Republic of South Sudan: We are told, fake or true news, that a plan is underway to export Palestinians from Gaza to South Sudan; as settlers or refugees.
The Republic of South Sudan: Nationalism is not a choice, but a righteous obligation. South Sudanese, a resilient society, fought a National liberation together and got…
The Republic of South Sudan: We, the people, and the R-TGoNU, led by the President of the Republic, General Salva Kiir Mayardit, are nationally committed to R-ARCSS; no return to…
The Republic of South Sudan: No war anymore! Peace is the National Interest and necessary option.
In productionSouth SudanThe Land of HopeThe country at fourteen, told by the people who built it and the generation inheriting it, ahead of the first elections in over a decade.
In productionCongoPeople · Resources · TomorrowWho owns what lies under the ground, who decides, and what the arrangement has cost the people living above it.
In developmentBurkina FasoResilience · Culture · ChangeA country that keeps rewriting its own terms, and the artists, farmers and organisers holding the middle of it together.The Nile Festival brings the platform off the page and into the open: a week of culture, sport, fashion, food and music, and the long-term engine that keeps the newsroom independent.
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