The Zimbabwean government believes that doctors and nurses share the blame for the country’s declining healthcare. Health workers in the country frequently embark on strike actions because of poor health infrastructures and poor pay. Lawmakers have amended the health services …
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Africa’s post-colonial landscape has not only been characterized by state-building and development efforts, but the efforts to promote democratic values and governance practices have been part of the new era of freedom since the late 1950s. While these efforts have …
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Zimbabwe may suffer an internet shutdown in the 2023 general election, just like Uganda and Zambia in 2021. In 2019, Freedom House rated Zimbabwe as a ‘not free’ country with a 28 percent Global Freedom score after the Mnangagwa-led …
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In February, the Heritage Foundation released its 2023 Index of Economic Freedom – it’s not good news. Even though higher levels of economic freedom are positively correlated with longer life expectancies, cleaner environments and more peaceful societies, governments around the …
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On the 7th to 19th of December 2022, delegates from 190 countries met in Montreal, Canada, to discuss the Global Biodiversity Framework agreement (GBF). The deal, though, felt like a setback to African countries as the amount of money committed …
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How can we trust South Africa’s development to the free market? While we can point to examples from elsewhere and from the history of free markets reducing unemployment and increasing prosperity, many South Africans are not yet convinced by this …
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A few days after the birth of 2023, Nigerian music sensation Olawale Olofooro, better known as Brymo, opened a can of ethnic bigotry when he took to Twitter to say that anyone from the Igbo ethnic group should not be …
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On January 6, 2023, fashion model Edwin Chiloba was murdered by his lover, Jacktone Odhiambo. Chiloba was a Kenyan fashion model and a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) activist. The ugly incident placed the issues affecting the LGBT community …
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Nigeria has successfully introduced new banknotes on about 10 occasions since independence in 1960. So why has the latest attempt been so controversial and traumatic? And what measures need to be taken to avoid a future debacle?
Nigeria’s central bank …
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A global reckoning is emerging in the international development sector. Donors and the wider public are recognizing the need for aid organizations to practice what they preach on diversity and inclusion.
Diversity is about recognizing the multitude of characteristics …
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