ANALYSIS — DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA Kenyan voters need leaders championing equity and inclusivity rather than populist politics 4 min 0 By Guyo Chepe Turi for ISS Today
OUR BURNING PLANET OP-ED New breeding swarms of desert locusts pose major threat to food security in Horn of Africa and Yemen 6 min 1 By Monique Bennett
ISS TODAY: ANALYSIS Hopes of sharing a peace pipe with Kenya remain premature as Somalia polls loom 4 min 0 By Mohamed Gaas for ISS Today
OP-ED Stunted growth: Prioritise investment in nutrition, or risk robbing Africa of its future 4 min 0 By Goutham Kandru and Desta Lakew
OUR BURNING PLANET OP-ED Africa’s journey to COP26: The state of play on the continent’s road to meeting its climate obligations 11 min 0 By Peter Leon, Justine Sweet and Ernst Müller
OUR BURNING PLANET Nature’s Defenders: Wangari Maathai, the tree woman of Kenya who gave birth to forests 6 min 1 By Don Pinnock
ISS TODAY: ANALYSIS Kenya’s courts put a cork in Kenyatta’s Constitution amendment proposals 4 min 0 By Peter Fabricius
ISS TODAY: ANALYSIS Kenya’s charcoal bans continue to fuel a destructive smuggling crisis 3 min 0 By Mohamed Daghar for ISS TODAY
ISS TODAY: ANALYSIS Kenya’s valuable sandalwoods are being uprooted and stripped to near extinction 4 min 0 By Willis Okumu for ISS Today
OUR BURNING PLANET Kenyan forest defender Joanna Stutchbury assassinated in gangster-style slaying 3 min 2 By Don Pinnock
OUR BURNING PLANET Fishy Business: A web of local and international actors facilitates the depletion of Somalia’s marine resources 9 min 0 By Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
ISS TODAY: OP-ED Winning community trust may be the path towards ridding Kenya of al-Shabaab 4 min 0 By Roba D Sharamo and Guyo Chepe Turi
MAVERICK CITIZEN OP-ED Drug markets: A new strategy on collecting pricing data aims to improve this critical evidence base 7 min 0 By Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
ISS TODAY Kenya-Somalia dispute threatens to destabilise Horn of Africa 4 min 0 By Selam Tadesse Demissie for ISS Today
OUR BURNING PLANET As the climate crisis bites and droughts intensify, it’s time to go underground 5 min 0 By Yazeed van Wyk
MAVERICK CITIZEN Researchers highlight Africa’s Covid-19 innovations and work to spread them further 8 min 0 By Christi Nortier
ISS TODAY Wangiri scam targets millions of unsuspecting Kenyans 3 min 0 By Mohamed Daghar for ISS TODAY
Human Trafficking: SPECIAL REPORT Infants for sale: Buying a baby on Nairobi’s black market 12 min 0 By Peter Murimi, Joel Gunter and Tom Watson for BBC’s Africa Eye
