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| Oct 20, 2026 | Africa's Cybersecurity Gap Is Not a Treaty Problem. It Is a Readiness Problem | Africa's digital economy is expanding faster than its ability to protect it. INTERPOL's African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026, drawing on information from 36 countries, found that artificial intelligence was involved in 55 pe... |
| Oct 2, 2026 | Africa: Cybersecurity Is the Infrastructure Africa Is Forgetting to Build | In June 2024, a ransomware attack on South Africa's National Health Laboratory Service rendered patient records inaccessible, disrupted diagnostics and forced hospitals to cancel surgeries. The incident was a stark reminder that when e... |
| Sep 23, 2026 | Africa: China's Humanoid Robots - a New Test for African Technology Sovereignty | For African governments, the significance of China's humanoid-robotics programme is not that robots may one day appear on African battlefields. It is a diagnostic case of how a dual-use technology can move from commercial deployment to... |
| Sep 1, 2026 | Africa's Assisted Reproductive Technology Boom Needs Public Governance, Not Just Private Investment | Across Africa, assisted reproductive technology (ART) is expanding at an unprecedented pace. Fertility clinics are opening in countries where, until recently, couples had little choice but to travel abroad, often to Europe, India, or within... |
| Aug 28, 2026 | Africa: When AI Explains African Crises, Local Knowledge Is Barely Visible | Ask any AI tool about the humanitarian situation in Africa, and you will get all sorts of answers in seconds. Then check closely where those answers come from, and you will be left mesmerised.
That very question led me to examine 1,083 veri... |
| Jun 16, 2026 | Kenya: The Algorithm Will See You Now - Deepfake Doctors and the Commodification of Care in Kenya | A few months ago, I was scrolling through TikTok when I came across a video. In a brightly lit room with brown décor, a doctor in a checkered shirt was discussing PCOS, a common condition that affects many women globally. As he shared medic... |
| May 23, 2026 | Africa: AI and the New Machinery of African Repression | Artificial intelligence is lowering the cost of authoritarian control in Africa. The danger is not only mass surveillance, but a state that can abort reformist change before it is even born.
Dictatorship used to be expensive. It needed info... |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Africa: When Digital Lending Feels Like Financial Colonialism | Hustlerfund, a mobile lending application in Kenya advances a 20-year-old woman named Khamba to stock up her fruit stall in Nakura. In another seven days, it has almost doubled. In a case where she is a day and a day late in paying, the pla... |
| May 23, 2025 | The Dual Faces of Knowledge: Open Access and Entrepreneurial Struggles | In the vast landscape of knowledge and innovation, two narratives emerge. One celebrates the democratization of information through open access publishing. The other reveals the harsh realities faced by young entrepreneurs in Ghana, caught ... |
| May 22, 2025 | Africa: Digital Start-Up Nightmares - Failure and Fractured Families in Ghana | Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debates and e... |
| Dec 16, 2024 | South Africa: Artificial Intelligence Regulation in South Africa - Prioritising Human Security | Next year's G20 Summit could be an opportunity for leaders to address AI concerns regarding transparency, accountability and human oversight.
Just months after the European Union's (EU) landmark Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act ca... |
| Oct 23, 2024 | Africa: The Deepfake Is a Powerful Weapon in the War in Sudan | While still rudimentary - voice-cloning models can't yet relay convincing Sudanese dialects - the use of Deepfakes is now routinely used on Sudan's violent, if bloodless, alternative battlefield: social media.
In April 2024, an im... |
| Apr 15, 2023 | Africa: Inclusion and Innovation Key to African Media Sustainability | Forced to adapt to the political establishment, and financially beset by Big Data, what is the future of Africa's media?
This year started on a high note for African media with the recent African Media Festival in February. Hundreds of... |
| Mar 23, 2023 | Nigeria's Curious Voter Turnout Problem | Why do Nigerian voters disappear when new technology is introduced at the polling booth?
Four presidential candidates have now filed petitions at the presidential election tribunal sitting in Abuja, meeting the 22 March deadline. They inclu... |
| Mar 12, 2023 | Is the Democratic Republic of Congo Considering a Pivot to Russia? | Editor’s Note: As U.S.-Russia hostility grows, their competition is spreading around the world. Kristof Titeca of the University of Antwerp examines how this rivalry is playing out in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There, growing anger a... |
| Mar 2, 2023 | Nigeria: Did Nigeria's Election Tech Fail or Was It Sabotaged? | Young voters put their faith in digital technology. But at polling units nationwide, many were transported to an elections twilight zone.
Victor Madu, a 25-year-old part-time student at the National Open University of Nigeria, always believ... |
| Feb 24, 2023 | Nigeria: Will Technology Deliver a Clean Election for Nigeria? | Voter registration is up, as confidence in election technology grows, but trust in the electoral commission continues to flounder.
From tomorrow, 25 February, and over the next two weeks, 93 million registered voters are expected to go to t... |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Questions linger over Facebook, Twitter, TikTok’s commitment to uphold election integrity in Africa, as countries head to polls | A dozen countries in Africa, including Nigeria, the continent’s biggest economy and democracy, are expected to hold their presidential elections next year, and questions linger on how well social media platforms are prepared to curb misinfo... |
| Dec 22, 2022 | France, football, colonialism: Take the best, leave the rest | As the Qatar 2022 World Cup saw formerly colonised peoples take on former colonial powers on the football field, conversations about “scars of the present’s past” inevitably erupted both online and offline. France, in particular, which play... |
| Oct 25, 2022 | Tanzania: 'Gone Like It Was Nothing' - the Irrepressible Rise of Mobile Scams | Despite Tanzania making SIM card registration mandatory, people still receive daily texts from fraudsters trying to trick them into sending money.
Out of the blue last year, Sauda Nyange received the kind of news every parent dreads. Accord... |
| Jun 2, 2022 | African Creator Economy - A Socioeconomic Renaissance of the Continent? | The creator economy may well be a global phenomenon but to me Africa is positioned to profit the most from it compared to other continents. This sentiment is informed by a confluence of factors that are shaping the future of Africa's l... |
| May 30, 2022 | The positive side of UN peacekeeping missions in Africa | The positive side of UN peacekeeping missions in Africa: Image: Adobe stock
Media headlines often make it seem as if peacekeeping is not going well; they tend to highlight violence, displacement and abuse. The quantitative data, however, te... |
| Mar 17, 2022 | Africa: Challenges of Fingerprinting - Will Digital IDs Revolutionise Service Delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa? | Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and be... |
| Jun 8, 2021 | Twitter taught me, a young Nigerian journalist, that you're never alone. Now the government has banned it, threatening my livelihood. | Nigeria announced Friday it would ban Twitter, threatening anyone who used it with prosecution.
The platform, which played a key role in anti-police brutality protests, was barred within hours.
Zainab Onuh-Yahaya describes the disappearance... |
| May 16, 2021 | The Islamic State Is in Congo. What Now? | Editor’s Note: The Islamic State has suffered numerous body blows since it declared its caliphate in 2014. The group has lost its territory in Iraq and Syria, and the United States and its allies have killed or captured many of its leaders.... |
| Jan 15, 2021 | Bobi Wine Has Shaken Up Ugandan Politics: Four Things Worth Knowing About Him | wp_booster error:
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| Nov 29, 2020 | Kenyan Entrepreneur Warns US To Invest In African Health & STEM Talent | Dr. Lydiah Kemunto Bosire, Founder/CEO, 8B Education InvestmentsLydiah Kemunto Bosire |
| Nov 22, 2020 | No Shortcuts to Negotiating With al-Shabaab | Editor’s Note: The United States recently attempted to negotiate with al-Shabaab, a Somali terrorist group tied to al-Qaeda. Negotiations appear to have failed almost as soon as they began, but was it a mistake to try? Tricia Bacon, a profe... |
| Nov 9, 2020 | Nigeria's #ENDSARS Campaign is About More Than One Police Unit | On Oct. 20, thousands of peaceful protesters gathered at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos, Nigeria. Nigerian citizens had been demonstrating for nearly two weeks, advocating for an end to the country’s infamous Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)... |
| May 1, 2020 | Al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia is sitting on a coronavirus powder keg | An armed member of the militant group al-Shabab at a rally on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, February 13, 2012. Associated Press
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The Somali government in Mogadishu has announced a number of measures to contain the spread of... |
| Dec 14, 2019 | Politics And Fashion: The Rise of the Red Beret | Ugandan opposition politician Bobi Wine takes a selfie with Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Nelson Chamisa Aaron Ufumeli/EPA-EFE |
| Dec 14, 2019 | Politics And Fashion: The Rise of the Red Beret | Ugandan opposition politician Bobi Wine takes a selfie with Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Nelson Chamisa Aaron Ufumeli/EPA-EFE
by Carla Lever
Bobi Wine has come a long way in two years. The self-styled “Ghetto President” of Uganda used to be... |
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| Aug 14, 2013 | Will blocking international money transfers really prevent organised crime? | Recently a petition signed by 25,000 people was handed in to UK’s 10 Downing Street urging British bank Barclays to reconsider its decision to close the bank accounts of scores of money remitters.
A remitter that loses access to a bank acco... |
| Hamdok’s deal with military puts Sudan’s future in the balance | Tom Collins
November 23rd 2021 •
North Africa, Sudan •
Trade & Investment
“We basically signed this agreement for us to save the lives of our people, avoid bloodshed and be able to put the country back on track,” said Sudan’s prime mini... |
| ‘White hands’: The rise of private armies in African conflicts | Ahead of the holy month of Ramadan every year, traders from neighbouring towns flock to the popular cattle market in the central Malian town of Moura. That ritual continued this year.
But on March 27 – one of those market days – military he... |
| ‘Stateless’: The politician disowned by South Sudan and Uganda | On December 22, 2021, Animu Athiei was leaving a café at the airport road of the South Sudanese capital Juba when members of the country’s secret police grabbed and put her into their van. That afternoon was the beginning of two months in d... |
