Will Rwanda’s focus on special economic zones concept deliver?

Rwanda’s one-time plan to increase exports and reduce the country’s trade deficit through the Export Processing Zone (EPZ), has appeared to have lost ground. Instead, the focus has now shifted to the Special Economic Zones (SEZs), which [ … ]

South Sudan’s gun culture and traumatised youth explode in new violence

Six months after the world’s youngest country euphorically declared its independence; South Sudan is riven by conflict, killings and ethnic tensions as it stumbles along the path of nation building.

Two decades of war with for [ … ]

How can you try to right a wrong, when you have not spoken to those who were wronged?

Elizabeth Kemunto stares blankly at the mud walls of her tiny house at a crowded Kenyan camp, where scores of families still wait for resettlement and justice four years after horrific poll unrest.

“I had a beaut [ … ]

Kenya’s freedom scion in the dock

Uhuru Kenyatta, son of Kenya’s founding president, once carried his country’s aspirations in his name but has since come to symbolise many of its woes and now faces trial over election violence.

The International Criminal Court on Jan 23 ruled that Kenyatta should [ … ]