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Extreme heat hurts human health. Its effects must be mitigated – urgently

Abdu Mohiddin, Christopher Jack, Evans Kituyi, Kristie Ebi, Matthew Chersich and Stanley Luchters
01 Dec

Industry mismanagement sweetening the illicit deals for sugar smugglers in Kenya

Willis Okumu for ISS Today
29 Nov

Islamic State insurgents could target South Africa, warns President Ramaphosa during Pretoria conference with Kenya’s Kenyatta

Peter Fabricius
24 Nov

We unpack what some African countries are doing about tobacco control

Corné van Walbeek and Zunda Chisha
21 Nov

Surveillance laws are failing to protect privacy rights: what we found in six African countries, including South Africa

Tony Roberts
08 Nov

It’s a Covid world: ‘We just want to meet people and be able to party again’

Street Talk
05 Nov

Kenya needs to address historical land injustices in warring Laikipia with action, not firepower

Guyo Chepe Turi for ISS Today
03 Nov

Debunking voter registration campaigns in Africa: Lessons for Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe 

Anotida Chikumbu, David Chikwaza and Tonderai Ndawana 
26 Oct

International Court of Justice draws the line in Kenya and Somalia’s troubled waters 

Timothy Walker and Mohamed Husein Gaas for ISS Today
14 Oct

Rewilding: conservationists want to let elephants loose in Europe – here’s what could happen

Harry Wells, Nora Ward and Ramiro D. Crego
10 Oct

Kenyan voters need leaders championing equity and inclusivity rather than populist politics

Guyo Chepe Turi for ISS Today
06 Oct

New breeding swarms of desert locusts pose major threat to food security in Horn of Africa and Yemen

Monique Bennett
27 Sep

Hopes of sharing a peace pipe with Kenya remain premature as Somalia polls loom

Mohamed Gaas for ISS Today
23 Sep

Stunted growth: Prioritise investment in nutrition, or risk robbing Africa of its future

Goutham Kandru and Desta Lakew
21 Sep

Africa’s journey to COP26: The state of play on the continent’s road to meeting its climate obligations

Peter Leon, Justine Sweet and Ernst Müller
16 Sep

Nature’s Defenders: Wangari Maathai, the tree woman of Kenya who gave birth to forests

Don Pinnock
14 Sep

Kenya’s courts put a cork in Kenyatta’s Constitution amendment proposals

Peter Fabricius
10 Sep

Kenya’s charcoal bans continue to fuel a destructive smuggling crisis

Mohamed Daghar for ISS TODAY
01 Sep

Kenya’s valuable sandalwoods are being uprooted and stripped to near extinction

Willis Okumu for ISS Today
30 Aug

The Oily Trinity: Big food, fast food and proximity

Malibongwe Tyilo
20 Aug

Kenyan forest defender Joanna Stutchbury assassinated in gangster-style slaying

Don Pinnock
20 Jul