Botswana’s Directorate of Intelligence and Security has detained two senior journalists and three opposition party leaders in Gaborone for the past 10 days. Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) Spokesperson Lawrence Okidetsi, Acting President Lazarus Lekwanyana, and Dina Monti, Party Secretary for Gaborone South Region, For varying periods between July 12th and July 16th. Ookeditse was held … Read more
Twelve years after the Libyan revolution, the country remains fragile. The government has limited influence, with de facto power exercised by rival armed groups. The instability in Libya and the lack of state control has helped fuel the massive rise in illicit economies in the country. Fuel smuggling is endemic, with networks moving large quantities … Read more
Senator Jim Risch, the ranking Republican on the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, strongly objected to Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s invitation to last week’s US-Africa Business Summit, which was held in Gaborone, Botswana. Last month, Resch wrote to Florizel Lesser, president and CEO of the Council of Companies in Africa (CCA), the US business association … Read more
Ten months into his presidency, Kenyan President William Ruto is battling a powerful headwind. He won the position as the champion of “scammers” – youngsters struggling to make ends meet, in a country he said was being run for the family elite. However, these scammers and almost everyone else are now struggling as Roto imposes … Read more
news from Bangui reports that hundreds of Wagners have left over the past two weeks, presumably back to Russia. This may indicate that Russia needs every experienced fighter it can field to prevent the dam from collapsing in Ukraine. It might also explain why Prigozhin has been walking around Moscow, even taking his commanders to … Read more
In recent years, there has been increasing recognition of the need to reform and modernize the electricity sector in Africa. The traditional model, dominated by large, vertically integrated facilities, is being challenged by the fight against climate change, technological advances in renewable energy, and the need for competitive pricing. As a result, several African countries … Read more