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Sep 4, 2024 | 
panafricanreview.com | Charles Onyango-Obbo |Mordecai Gisanura |Chinaecherem Thankgod Ugwu |Mohamed Omer
In a highly anticipated televised address to the country on the evening of 28 July 2024, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced sweeping economic reforms. The announcement was the culmination of years of economic policy changes since he took office in 2018, aimed at tackling entrenched economic challenges such as debt, inflation, unemployment and low productivity.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
panafricanreview.com | Charles Onyango-Obbo |Mordecai Gisanura |Chinaecherem Thankgod Ugwu
In recent weeks, barely a day or two has gone by without Al-Shabaab staging a major attack in Mogadishu or on its outskirts. The mass-casualty incident at Lido Beach on 2 August that left over three dozen dead has precipitated a wave of violence, including several improvised explosive device (IED) attacks on both civilian and military targets. To date, this has included the bombings of a tea shop in Dayniile, three markets near Mogadishu, and a security checkpoint in the capital.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
panafricanreview.com | Charles Onyango-Obbo |Mordecai Gisanura |Chinaecherem Thankgod Ugwu
Exit stage left the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) and enter stage right the African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM). Last month, after successive delays, the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) met to agree on the structure of the new peacekeeping mission.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
panafricanreview.com | Charles Onyango-Obbo |Mordecai Gisanura |Chinaecherem Thankgod Ugwu
Some years ago, the Uganda government rebuilt and widened the road from the western region city of Mbarara to Kabale onwards to the border with Rwanda. It was a beautiful road, but Uganda President Yoweri Museveni was disgruntled that he wasn’t getting a good return on his investment.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
panafricanreview.com | Mordecai Gisanura |Chinaecherem Thankgod Ugwu
The controversy surrounding Chidinma Adetshina, a finalist in the 2024 Miss South Africa pageantry, highlights the deep-seated problems of tribalism and ethnocentrism in Africa. Chidinma, a naturalised South African citizen, faced severe backlash because of her Nigerian heritage, despite meeting the competition’s criteria, as confirmed by the organisers.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
panafricanreview.com | Mordecai Gisanura |Chinaecherem Thankgod Ugwu |Lionel Manzi
Since the end of 2021, the Tshisekedi regime has been engaged in a deadly confrontation with the M23 rebels. Meanwhile, relations between the DRC and Rwanda have broken down. Kinshasa accuses Rwanda of supporting the rebels, while Kigali points to the integration of a genocidal outfit – the FDLR – into the Congolese army (FARDC) as an existential threat that must be neutralised.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
panafricanreview.com | Mordecai Gisanura |Chinaecherem Thankgod Ugwu |David Hundeyin
Thousands of years after the world’s most iconic buildings went up in Egypt, a new kind of megaproject is being built about 65 km outside the ancient capital of Cairo. The New Administrative Capital, as it’s tentatively known, has been under construction since 2015 and has already seen thousands of new residents move in after the first phase of construction was completed in 2023.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
panafricanreview.com | Mordecai Gisanura |Chinaecherem Thankgod Ugwu |David Hundeyin
In April 2024, more than 80 political parties and civil society groups in Mali issued two joint public statements calling for a presidential election “as soon as possible” and an end to the transitional military rule of Colonel Assimi Goita, which began after his coup in 2021.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
panafricanreview.com | Mordecai Gisanura |Chinaecherem Thankgod Ugwu |Geoff Iyatse
We are less than three months away from this year’s commemoration of #EndSARS – a series of online and physical demonstrations that began with a call for an end to a special unit of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) that had become synonymous with brutality. Nigerian youths have again poured into the streets of Lagos (the hotbed of social activism), the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and nearly 30 other states. Dozens of deaths have already been recorded in different parts of the country.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
panafricanreview.com | Mordecai Gisanura |Chinaecherem Thankgod Ugwu |Chika Esiobu
Human survival is dependent on food. Thus, conversations around Africa’s self-defined and self-directed existence should have healthy, accessible food consumption as their foundational feature. From this perspective, we know that imported, processed wheat flour, which dominates the baked food sector in East, Central and West Africa, is seriously damaging to the health of citizens and the economies of these regions.
