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According to estimates from the Cameroon Agriculture Ministry, the country produced 140,170 tons of rice in 2020. It experienced a local need of 576,940 tons, which gave way to a shortfall of 436,779 tons. This is not surprising as Cameroon …
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One of the major barriers hampering universal electrification in sub-Saharan Africa is the fact that national utility companies often find little incentive to extend the national grid to rural areas since it’s financially unfeasible. Indeed, expanding the grid to these …
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The jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso are not isolated from the insurrectionist attacks taking place in the larger Sahel region. In fact, a report by the International Crisis Group stated that Burkina Faso suffered more jihadist attacks than any other …
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Somalia’s attempts to achieve political stability has been a Sisyphean task. Driving this never-ending political crisis is a set of highly polarizing and pervasive political fault lines that make Somalia vulnerable to internal civil crises and influence from external actors. …
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Since South Sudan seceded to form the world’s youngest nation, the country’s military leadership has evolved into one of the most rapacious and nepotistic military regimes in Africa. Based largely on a bandit economy, the military elites are notorious for …
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Beyond the laudable efforts to clampdown on corruption, and the uncompromising state-led interventionist policies to improve their economies, many experts have observed that Rwanda and Tanzania may be overstating various economic indicators in an effort to omit certain inconvenient truths …
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For a keen political observer, here is an observation about the global political scene that you cannot easily repudiate. Populist demagogues with a tendency to poke holes at social conventions are no longer playing a marginal role in politics; they …
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Powerless in the face of, desertification, sporadic jihadist violence, decrepit state infrastructure, high rates of infant and maternal mortality, perennial farmer-herder conflicts, sluggish economies with little job-creating opportunities, unsustainable demographic growth, and general erosion of the democracy. Weak post-independent institutions …
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