Kenya

Faced with economic crisis and mass protests, Washington’s newest non-NATO ally has turned to brutal repression at home.

A tax bill sparked deadly protests. But a broken financial system has plagued the country for years.

President Ruto is valued by the White House but much less popular at home.

Closer ties to emerging economies are an insurance policy for Washington against geopolitical shocks.

The Bretton Woods institutions are due a revamp from their colonial roots.

The country risks becoming an “open-air jail,” Haiti’s former foreign minister warns.

Repeated interventions have done nothing to aid Haitians.

Worldcoin trades cryptocurrency for eyeball scans, creating a global ID database and scaring the willies out of privacy experts.

Capital punishment was a tool of white supremacy designed to instill terror and cement foreign domination. African governments should abolish it.

Examples from around the world show that restrictions can actually lead to more, not fewer, abortions.

An early declaration of the election result from a partisan network—on the left or right—could trigger violence in the United States.

Drought has disrupted the traditional way of life for pastoralists, pushing many women into business for the first time.

The president doesn’t have a clear chosen successor, and the unsolved killing of an election official shows that the country could be caught in another cycle of violence.

The handover of municipal services to military officers makes clear how the president wants to wield power.

With frustration rising over haphazard responses to the coronavirus, community networks are filling the void across the continent.