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VULNERABILITIES OF AFRICA IN TERMS of the future of food are many and varied. Foreigners seem to see them more clearly than Africans do. Foreign investors, either private, corporate or even governments are projecting into the future, trying to figure out how to feed their people and make money without being bogged down by the […]

ZAMBIA AND ZIMBABWE ARE TWO COUNTRIES in the Southern Africa region. Earlier in the century, they both suffered serious climate events that impacted on their food production and food security. Both countries are fast urbanising and the growing populations means more mouths to feed. But both countries have had to depend on food donations from […]

GREEK ALPHABETS ARE NOT STRANGE to those familiar with sciences, especially those involving quantitative analyses and calculations. Their use as notations, symbols and formulae can be described as legendary and historic as they have been associated with breakthrough scientific solutions to many natural phenomena and mysteries.  Economists are also familiar with those alphabets in the […]

NEXT JANUARY, in about a month’s time, the commencement of trading on the platform of African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) would have run its course for one year. By now, we should be expecting to read big headline news about what has been achieved during the one year of implementing a trade agreement that […]

A DECADE AGO, East Africa was a region of hope in the midst of despair. Economic growth and social stability became the hallmarks of the region as Ethiopia began a consistent annual GDP growth, unbroken for a decade till 2020, very likely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For many years Ethiopia scored an enviable pass […]

GLOBALISATION IS A CENTRAL ISSUE of current and continual relevance to every country, region or continent because of its various contexts. Trade, tourism, technology transfer, pandemic, insecurity and migration are some of the key issues in these contexts with far-reaching, immediate and long-term impacts on livelihoods, economies, safety, and social security. These are also bedrocks […]

CHINESE PRESIDENT, XI JINPING, has just secured a mandate that will enable him go for a third term as the helmsman of China next year. At the weekend, a ‘crowd’ of about 400 insiders in the Chinese corridors of power, the Central Committee members, voted to pave way to re-elect Xi in a country with […]

TRUTH IS EASILY THE FIRST VICTIM in war as in politics. In Ethiopia right now, both war and politics have been dangerously enmeshed and these are driving the country down a precarious precipice, unless someone at the helm comes back to his senses and changes tactics. A year has passed since the war in Ethiopia […]

DICHOTOMY IN THE FIGHT AGAINST climate change is not difficult to find when the global north is juxtaposed with the global south. Even within countries on either side of the great divide, cleavages are apparent. Hidden hypocrisies, double standards, vested interests and limited commitment to a successful realisation of a safe environment are all too […]

CONTRADICTIONS, CRACKDOWNS, COERCION, COVID-19 and CORRUPTIONS are steadily becoming the defining features of China. Some incurable optimists still hold on to the viewpoint that China’s phenomenal rise would defy any law of gravity. How wrong!! And African countries would do better to be vigilant, watch out for the unpredictable and be wary of Chinese subterfuge […]