Long reads on African history, governance, economics, culture, and what comes next.
The Mouvement du 23 Mars (M23) — the armed group operating in North Kivu province whose 2022–2025 offensive captured substantial territory including Bunagana, Kibumba, and the approaches to …
The Algiers Metro opened in 2011 after 30 years of stop-start construction. The Casablanca tramway opened in 2012. Both are the largest urban rail systems in their respective …
Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has, since its 2003 launch under President Kufuor, included a partial integration with the registered herbalist sector through the Ghana Federation of …
Entreprise du Métro d'Alger (EMA), the Algerian state-owned operator of the Algiers metro, has run the system since the 2011 opening under a delegated-management contract with RATP-Dev (the …
The EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542, which entered force in August 2023 with due-diligence reporting requirements phasing in from 2025–2027, requires downstream battery manufacturers selling into the EU market …
Agricultural research funding has, for the last sixty years, concentrated on three cereals: maize, rice, wheat. Together they receive roughly 75% of global crop-research funding and account for …
The Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit (AA-LRT) opened in September 2015 — the first metro system in sub-Saharan Africa outside Johannesburg's Gautrain. Two lines, 32 kilometres, 39 stations, …
The Lagos Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor opened in 2008 along Ikorodu Road, the first operational BRT in sub-Saharan Africa, and was for a decade a reference case …
The Mukuru Special Planning Area (SPA) was gazetted by the Nairobi City County Government in August 2017, suspending normal development control over an area of roughly 689 acres …
The *Pfumvudza* (Shona: 'new season' or 'rebirth') conservation agriculture programme was launched by Zimbabwe's Ministry of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement in 2020 and has now run through …
The 1994 transition committed the new South African state to three land-reform tracks: *restitution* (returning land dispossessed under the 1913 Natives Land Act and successor legislation), *redistribution* (transferring …
M-KOPA — founded in Nairobi in 2011 by Jesse Moore, Nick Hughes (of M-Pesa fame), and Chad Larson — pioneered the pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar-home-system model that has now …