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How Africa’s media covered Nigeria recent general elections and why it matters for the next coverage COMMENT | Azubuike Ishiekwene | Between February and March 2023, Nigerians went to the polls to elect a new President and parliament. This was the seventh national vote since Nigeria’s transition from military rule in 1999. …

Science, Solutions and Solidarity ensure the United Nations health agency remains central to protecting future health COMMENT | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus | Turning history’s page on its deadliest conflict, countries came together in 1948 to heal a bloodied world. After years of war, distrust and pain, nations across the globe forged a …

COMMENT | Elizabeth K. Patience | As we crossed over to 2023, nearly all of us had visions, dreams, goals, targets and prayer requests for the year well stated out. Over the years, this has been the norm for most people but to no fulfilment at the end of the year. While …

COMMENT | Judith Hope Kiconco | Ladies, can you remember of a time you got on your period out of home only to realise, you had not carried any pads? Or for women that experience a heavy flow during periods that you quickly run through what you had carried from home …

As Africa becomes more connected, more of its citizens are participating in the global digital economy. That means they are growing accustomed to a global experience, and African enterprises must offer that same experience. COMMENT | VINCENT MAHER |  Africa faces a reckoning when it comes to its relationship with …

Monetary authorities could introduce a digital currency to make the payments system more fluid COMMENT | Jan Eeckhout | Last year, the Nobel Prize in Economics went to two economists who study the dynamics of bank runs, as well as to former U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke for his work analyzing …

How Ugandan MSME can benefit from its focus on strengthening the institutional capacity of Chambers of Commerce & Industry COMMENT | David Bikhado Ofungi | The past decade has been associated with a revaluation of what corporate citizenry means. For a long time, companies were happy to park the Corporate Social Responsibility …

The national budget’s purpose should be to use fiscal policy to protect the least well-off from disruptive blows COMMENT | Robert Skidelsky | In 1969, the British financial journalist Samuel Brittan published a book called `Steering the Economy: The Role of the Treasury’. At the time, it was still widely assumed that …

COMMENT | Agarwal Rajesh | Farmers, teachers, and businesses have today incorporated digital support in their operations, which translates to timely and fast access to services for those who subscribe to them. Today, a farmer can operate an e-shop among other digital platforms, where they interact with suppliers and other stakeholders. …

Noncommunicable diseases are expected to overtake infectious diseases as the region’s leading cause of death by 2030, following a sharp increase in cancer-related mortality COMMENT | Miriam Mutebi | Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity, kill 41 million people per year, with 77% of these deaths occurring …