Our Sub-Saharan Africa desk covers the regions of the African continent that lie south of the Sahara. These include Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa.
As part of a series of conversations with the 2024 Class of the Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program, Abla Abdulkadir, Sarah Jeddy, and Owen Haywood of th...
Last month, the YRIS Interview and Events Team sat down with Babra Ontibile Bhebe, a member of the 2024 Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program. A native Zim...
André Marinus de Ruyter is a South African businessman who in December 2019 was appointed CEO of Eskom, South Africa’s largest state-owned electricity com...
For decades, Algerians have proudly chanted the slogan “One, Two, Three – Viva l’Algerie!” in the face of adversity. Yet even this slogan, which has...
Scheduled power cuts, commonly known as load-shedding , have threatened the political and economic stability of South Africa since 2008. The state-owned power u...
Citizens of Chad awoke, on the morning of October 21, 2022, to carnage in the streets. The stains of a bleeding democracy could not be washed out overnight. Onl...
Amid the Green Revolution of the mid-20th century and the growing voice of global actors, innovations across the agricultural sector gave hope to the idea of en...
Introduction: “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government” (Jefferson 1809). Th...
Moroccan protestors gathered outside of parliament in Rabat with hundreds of signs that read “We are all Meriem.” Meriem was the latest victim of Morocco’s stri...
Combating physical threats is challenging enough, but how do you defeat an idea? This is precisely why countering extremism and terrorism is so difficult....
