Nowinafrica Editorial board

East African governments are intensifying efforts to restrict the import of used clothing, a trade that has sustained millions of livelihoods across the region while simultaneously undermining efforts to build domestic textile industries. Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda have each pursued variations of import restriction policies over the past decade, with mixed results, and the current

Burkina Faso’s military junta has dropped all charges against a prominent journalist who was sentenced to three years in prison for what international press freedom groups called a politically motivated prosecution, in a development that has been welcomed as a positive signal even as concern remains about the broader trajectory of media freedom under the

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has mounted a legal challenge against a damaging report that could set in motion impeachment proceedings against him, in a political crisis that is testing the foundations of South Africa’s democracy at a moment when the country can ill afford institutional uncertainty. The challenge, filed with the country’s Constitutional Court,

Washington’s Quiet Geopolitical Gambit in the Horn of Africa A sitting United States senator has publicly endorsed the recognition of Somaliland as an independent state — a move that, if translated into official policy, would represent one of the most significant shifts in American engagement with the Horn of Africa in decades. Senator Ted Cruz