Journalist, Editor and authoritative commentator on African Affairs. Radio talk-show host and prominent guest speaker.
At a specially erected conference facility within the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, President Emmanuel Macron is hosting a summit on Tuesday of two dozen African leaders. Their agenda is topped by economic recovery from the COVID pandemic. The meeting, which will include international economic groupings, is unashamedly a French
It is back to the drawing board for the Musina-Makhado Special Development Zone. A meeting this week between the farmers in the region and Chinese developers backed by the Limpopo provincial authority was cancelled. The environmental impact assessment for what is South Africa’s largest special economic zone has been thrown
Like all the friends and supporters of the apartheid regime, the absolute monarchy that is Morocco hates being reminded of this. So I was not surprised when the envoy from Rabat Youssef Amrani walked up to the podium where I was speaking from at the Pretoria Country Club and yelled
The equitable distribution of COVID vaccine has seized the gathering in London of Foreign ministers from the world’s richest countries by the scruff of the neck. The practical issues of fighting the pandemic is best summed up in the assertion that no-one if safe until everyone is safe. The moral
The young General Mahamat Idriss Deby is learning that being handed the presidency of Chad is more like a poison chalice than winning the lottery of life. For the time being, the 37 year-old has the backing of former colonial power France. President Emmanuel Macron went to N’Djamena for Friday’s
There was not much talk at my running club this week about the climate summit being hosted by US President Joe Biden. We were concentrating on who would be getting in the next round and discussing the many ailments that runners tend to prattle on about. Swedish climate activist Greta
Not even the waters of Africa’s greatest river can cool the heat generated by the row over the dam that Ethiopia has built across the Nile. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will be filled with or without an agreement with the riparian countries Sudan
Trying to understand what’s happening in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado, I’m taking the sage advice of two of the best analysts on South Africa’s eastern neighbor. Jasmine Opperman and Joseph Hanlon are adamant that on this matter one should not believe everything one reads. Since what one reads
We don’t know exactly how Chad’s President Idriss Deby died while visiting troops in the north of his country on Sunday. Africa’s fifth longest service President who won Sunday’s election with 79,3% of the vote, elected to be with his soldiers rather than attend a ceremony celebrating his sixth term
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