Journalist, Editor and authoritative commentator on African Affairs. Radio talk-show host and prominent guest speaker.
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
headline: South Africa sends troops to evacuate nationals in Mozambique President Cyril Ramaphosa is in an urgent meeting with his Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapsia-Nqakula today following his announcement that he’s sent troops to Mozambique to evacuate South Africans trapped there by ISIS-affiliated jihadis fighting government forces. At least on South
So Bafana Bafana are out of the Afcon Cup to be played in Cameroon next January and February. Losing 2-0 to Sudan in last week’s qualifier was the final nail in the coffin. The team slunk home and very little has been heard from them. I will spare their blushes
A disturbing piece of television during national women’s month. A female student talking-to a television reporter is bearded by a male colleague. “We are protesting,” he says. “No interviews” and with that he pushes her in the small of her back into the throng of toy toying youth. She doesn’t
They currently number among the bravest people on the planet. The hundreds of thousands who have taken to the streets protesting against the military coup in Myanmar. The railway workers who are ensuring the trains don’t run-on time, the bank employees who are watching the the ATM dispensers run out
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