A Kenyan think tank, the Kenya Institute of Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) has been ranked as the top think tank in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new report released last week. The…
The February 18 election in Uganda is President Yoweri Museveni’s to lose as he seeks to extend his 30-year stay in office, but with recent opinion polls showing his main rival Dr Kizza Besigye…
LSE alumnus Amma Aboagye examines the economic benefits that could emerge from children resulting from the mass exodus of African migrants to the West during the 1980s and 1990s.
On 29 January 1986 Yoweri Kaguta Museveni addressed Ugandans for the first time as national leader: “No one should think that what is happening today is a mere change of guard; it is a fundamental…
Last thursday an international conference on war-torn Syria in London pledged in half a day a record $10 billion; raising $7 billion in immediate humanitarian aid. For a watcher of international…
Even though most African countries enshrine principles of freedom of expression in their constitution, the practice often leaves much to be desired. The African Media Barometer (AMB) identifies and…
A country’s true strength is its people. To Africa’s dismay, the continent continues to suffer a brain drain where the highly educated and skilled leave for greener pastures. LSE’s Scott Firsing…
When then-President Bill Clinton visited Africa in 1998, he praised “a new generation of leaders” as champions of a dawning “African Renaissance.” Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni was one of them: Two years…
Questions have been raised about the legitimacy of Eritrean asylum seekers as Europe tries to find a pretext to rid itself of Eritreans. An example of such an effort is the sponsorship of a…
Election observers from the East African Community and elsewhere in the world are already trooping into Kampala. President Yoweri Museveni will be seeking a further five-year term in the coming…
