Comment & analysis

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through its missions, recently dispatched a circular requesting Kenyans to send suggestions to the diaspora desk and simultaneously register online as voters.

‘We are not masters of our political fate, but slaves of circumstance.

In the most recent incident, on 28 October 2015, the NGO Coordination Board announced the de-registration of these 959 NGOs for violating provisions of the Non-Governmental Organisations Act 1999 and for “breaching the terms and conditions attached to their certificates.” Those facing de-registr

After his election in April 2013, President Uhuru Kenyatta began a vicious campaign of profiling, vilifying and attacking independent civil society organizations especially human rights and governance groups.

For the third time in close to a year, Kenya announced plans to deregister civil society groups, this time including the well-respected Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) which pioneered human rights documentation work in Kenya in the early 1990s.

Well, the 2015 elections for Tanzania mainland are finally done. Of course, much cannot be said for the Island of Zanzibar (Including Pemba). It is not yet finally clear how things are going to go on that side.

The last two weeks have been politically eventful. I had the sheer opportunity to be in Canada at the time when a sweeping political transition occurred.

1 November 2015

We, as concerned scholars of Zanzibar, write to express our dismay at recent events following the elections of 25 October 2015.

We are all wives of men who came to South Africa from other countries. There are more than a hundred of us. Our husbands come from Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan and Zimbabwe. Most of us are Muslims.

Software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse’s call on the government to “apply Mugabe laws” to ensure Ghanaians own more companies raises questions about Ghana’s model of economic development.