, With Raila Odinga's path towards the African Union chair's job looking ever more clear, the race to succeed him as the voice of Kenya's opposition is hotting up.
Unleashing tens of billions of investment across Africa, the UAE and Saudi Arabia are buying critical minerals and political influence, The strategy of the oil-fired Gulf States in Africa appears to be modelled on a foreign policy dictum coined by Ghana's founding President, Kwame Nkrumah: 'We face neither east nor west – we face forwards.' Like Nkrumah, the Gulf monarchs alternate between cutting deals in Washington and Beijing and Moscow. Unlike him, they have trillions of dollars in sovereign wealth funds and face no immediate threats of coups d'état.
Botswana has an elephant problem — there are simply too many of them. That is why, when Germany proposed to enact stricter limits on import of hunted trophies, Botswana’s president clapped back.
Arts education and sensory theater projects are among five area campaigns selected for the 2024 cycle of Arts United's Amplify Art crowdfunding program. The campaigns begin April 8 and conclude