By Kaymarlin Govender From aid dependency to health sovereignty — Africa’s urgent call to own its HIV response 7 min 0 6 May 2026
By Ezile Madlala Africa must set the terms of ‘green gold’ minerals boom and avoid historical extraction 4 min 0 21 April 2026
By Robert Kigongo Understanding the critical line between patriotism and political patronage in Africa 4 min 1 8 April 2026
By Jon Foster-Pedley Africa at centre of global supply chain realignment but at risk of economic capture 5 min 0 29 March 2026
By Robert Kigongo Africa’s turn to move as Washington and Beijing dominate the geopolitical chessboard 3 min 1 13 February 2026
ISS Today Why US intervention in Venezuela set off alarm bells across Africa 4 min 0 By Paul-Simon Handy
ENERGY SOVEREIGNTY OP-ED ‘Clean Energy for People and Planet’ must start with African realities 4 min 0 By Ekeminiabasi Eyita-Okon
MEGAFAUNAL AFTERMATH Part 3: Ecological Aftershock: The longue duree and the animals in our history 8 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
By Inge Herbert South Africa must decarbonise and diversify to save its vital German trade 4 min 0 28 January 2026
ESCAPE Where to next? The future of travel is all about hushpitality 5 min 0 By Bridget Hilton-Barber
WORLD ANALYSIS Reading the tea leaves for 2026 shows a world on the edge of disruption 9 min 1 By J Brooks Spector
By Wellington Muzengeza Firewalls and flags as Africa’s digital renaissance collides with a growing war on free expression 5 min 0 2 January 2026
ANALYSIS Is Israel’s recognition of Somaliland breaking the ice or breaking the region? 6 min 0 By Peter Fabricius
By Adam Cruise How chacma baboons became routine exports in a primate trade we don’t talk about 7 min 0 31 December 2025
ISS TODAY Offline and silenced: Africa’s quiet rise of internet repression 5 min 0 By Julia Baum and Michelle van Rooyen
FOREIGN AFFAIRS Trump’s National Security Strategy insults Europe and largely neglects Africa 8 min 1 By Peter Fabricius
ISS TODAY A triumph on paper, a battle ahead as SA’s Africa-driven G20 faces US pushback 4 min 0 By Peter Fabricius for ISS TODAY
By Sachi Satapathy Beyond the AI hype to what’s really happening inside Africa’s classrooms 4 min 0 3 December 2025