NEWS ANALYSIS

  Harare, Zimbabwe | Linda Mujuru, Global Press Journal Zimbabwe |   Primrose Garande’s ancestors relied on the fertile pastures here to graze their cattle, and he followed in their footsteps. Now, a Chinese-funded quarry operation threatens the lush landscape. Garande no longer knows where his livestock will graze. When school …

PROFILE | THE INDEPENDENT |  When Calvin David Echodu steps into a room, he carries with him an air of assured calm and understated resolve. Tall, dark-skinned, and immaculately dressed—with a Uganda flag-striped tie and a pocket square in the NRM’s signature yellow—Echodu’s appearance is at once both formal and …

Five candidates vying to lead the African Development Bank shared their visions at a public forum ahead of the May 29 election, outlining priorities from infrastructure, debt reform, food sovereignty and private sector investment ANALYSIS | AYENAT MERSIE |  Five candidates vying to lead the African Development Bank made their pitches …

How AI, X and online platforms are shaping diplomatic relations in the region and globally ANALYSIS | IAN KATUSIIME | An unexpected post on X from Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Jan. 30 in reaction to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during the recent flare-up in eastern DR Congo caught many …

Vatican, Italy | THE INDEPENDENT | At exactly 7:10 p.m., white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney, signalling to the world that a new Pope had been elected. A wave of applause erupted among the thousands gathered in St. Peter’s Square and millions viewing from different means across the …

History is a mirror, and only by drawing lessons from history can the world avoid repeating past calamities. BEIJING | Xinhua |  Eighty years ago, the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War marked a turning point in human history, opening a new chapter in building a better international order and …

HANGZHOU | Xinhua | In a compact shop no larger than 10 square meters, Tao Yang, a vendor in Yiwu — a city in Zhejiang Province known as “the world’s supermarket” — keeps a well-used World Atlas on her desk. “I ask my customers to sign their names over their …

Communities in the Kenya’s and Uganda’s shores of Lake Victoria, Copperbelt Province in Zambia, Eastern Cape Province in South Africa, or Enugu State in Nigeria — have this vulnerability ANALYSIS | MONICAH OTIENO | In the west of Kenya, near the shores of Lake Victoria, where I come from, a tuberculosis outbreak is no different …

The hospital is the only one in Fangak County, which has a population of more than 110,000 people ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | At least seven people have been killed after a hospital and market were bombed in South Sudan, a medical charity has said, as fears grow of a return to …

The pigs will join a very short list of gene-modified animals that you can eat ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | Most pigs in the US are confined to factory farms where they can be afflicted by a nasty respiratory virus that kills piglets. The illness is called porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, or …