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Sudan: Burhan’s Dialogue Is Not a Path to Stability
General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has discovered dialogue again. After years of promises, a military coup, emergency rule, war rhetoric and political exclusion, Sudan’s army ... -
Africa’s Youth Employment Crisis Has a Curriculum Problem
When I worked for The Harvest Fund, I sat across from women-farmers who had just completed training in milling, business development, food safety. Competent ... -
The Coup Costs More Than the Corruption It Claims to Fix
Since 2020, soldiers have seized power in Mali, Guinea, Sudan, Burkina Faso (twice), Niger, and Gabon. In every case, the announcement has followed the ... -
Ethiopia Counts Coffee at the Wrong End
On July 7, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told Parliament that Ethiopia had earned a record $3.1 billion from coffee exports. Six days later, the ... -
Malawi’s economic crisis: Can recovery begin?
Almost nine months after Malawian President Peter Mutharika returned to power, his administration finds itself grappling with a severe and protracted economic crisis. The ... -
Tanzania’s VAT Refund Revolution: The Quiet Reform That Could Unlock Billions in Private Investment
When governments unveil annual budgets, headlines focus on the big numbers: spending, growth and tax collection. But sometimes the real story sits quietly in ... -
The Beijing of It All: Africa’s Development Terms Are No Longer Written in Washington or Brussels
In the period that followed decolonisation, Africa’s development landscape continued to be shaped by Western partnerships. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, this ... -
Walking with the Herd – Why Africa Must Rethink Its Oldest Economy
When pastoralists, researchers, policymakers and development practitioners gathered in Marsabit this year to mark the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP-2026), the conversations ... -
Somalia: A Government With One Foot Out the Door
Somalia’s foreign passport crackdown reveals a governance crisis hiding in plain sight On the afternoon of June 24, 2026, Somalia’s Second Deputy Prime Minister, ... -
A Century of Agricultural Investment in Sudan: Why Has Development Failed?
This article is translated and adapted from an Arabic article published in Sudanese Online. The ideas reflect arguments presented by the author in his ...
