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‘Insult’ arrest kicks off poll race in Kenya

Africa Patrick Gathara - 25 Sep 2020

MPs’ detention may signal the silencing of dissent and a bid to railroad changes to the Constitution

Kenyan cops cash in on Covid-19

Africa Muthoni Gitonga - 5 Sep 2020

The ‘unmasked’ are arrested during early morning patrols, taken to police stations and charged a ‘bond’

Pandemic-induced human rights violations a double tragedy to humanity

Africa Webster Zambara - 6 Jul 2020

The conflation of human rights violations and a pandemic leave the most vulnerable marginalised. Equitable and democratic societies are needed to fight against this

Meet refugee camp’s ‘Corona Guy’

Africa Ismail Einashe - 18 Jun 2020

One radio presenter is using the airwaves to bring vital facts about the virus to Dadaab’s 217 000 residents

On the road with East African truck drivers

Africa Simon Mkina, Godfrey Kimono & David Mono Danga - 1 Jun 2020

In East Africa, truck drivers are being attacked, robbed and used as diplomatic footballs

How coronavirus is affecting Kenya’s hearing impaired citizens

Africa Njeri Kimani - 5 May 2020

A deaf man in Kenya spread the message of Covid-19 when he realised a million hearing impaired people were left out of the conversation

Covid-19 in Africa: The good news and the bad

Africa Judd Devermont & Simon Allison - 2 May 2020

What might Africa look like in the wake of the pandemic? There’s enough change happening to keep both optimists happy and pessimists glum

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Dramatic changes are coming to newsrooms across Africa

Article Christoph Plate - 29 Apr 2020

The pandemic could deliver a crippling blow to media houses across the continent

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Covid-19 and the call for solidarity: Challenges for informal settlements

Article Hloniphile Simelane - 12 Apr 2020

It is difficult for residents of informal settlements to follow guidelines to prevent Covid-19 transmission, such as hand-washing, in the absence of access to water. It is governments’ responsibility to provide these basic services

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Kenya’s government can’t tackle the pandemic alone. It needs civil society

Africa Patrick Gathara - 3 Apr 2020

Kenya’s government has excluded nongovernmental organisations and other groups such as churches from its emergency decision-making. This is a mistake

Hand washing, emergency loans and panic buying: How one Kenyan city is preparing

Africa Njeri Kimani - 20 Mar 2020

There have been no reported cases of the coronavirus in Nakuru, Kenya’s third-largest city. But life here has already changed

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Why courts can’t save democracy in Africa

Africa Nic Cheeseman - 19 Mar 2020

Recent judgments in Kenya and Malawi are encouraging. But democratic reform is impossible unless presidents and electoral commissions play their part

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Higher-education institutions around Africa close as the world combats Covid-19

Article Bongekile Macupe - 17 Mar 2020

Several countries, including Kenya and Senegal, have ordered their tertiary education institutions to shut down in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus

How opposition parties in Africa can make friends and influence people

Africa Nic Cheeseman - 3 Mar 2020

Only by demonstrating that it would perform better in office while building trust within the wider population can the opposition force improvements in the electoral system while also growing the party

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Kenya’s finance minister pleads not guilty to graft charges

Africa Agency - 23 Jul 2019

Henry Rotich handed himself over to police on Monday after the country's top prosecutor ordered he and 27 other officials be arrested

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