Macron’s Remarks Reignite Tensions Over Colonial Legacy in West Africa
In early January 2025, French President Emmanuel Macron sparked outrage across West Africa after insinuating that countries like Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger h...
Category: Africa
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.
CNN Producer Nimi Princewell Discusses the Conflict in the DRC
This transcript comes from a written interview conducted in February 2025 with Nimi Princewill. Nimi Princewill is a news producer with CNN based in Abuja, Nige...
Framing the Rape Crisis in South Africa
“We’ve been standing here for 26 seconds, and nobody has been raped”. On the 2nd of February 2000, the late Minister of Safety and Security went on an American ...
Waiting on the World to Change in Cameroon
Cameroonians are in a waiting game. As elections approach this October, all signs point to an 8th term for president Paul Biya, now age 92. For decades, opposit...
Another War in Tigray? The Perpetual Cycle of Civil Conflict in Ethiopia
After years of political unrest and division, Ethiopia may be headed towards yet another civil war. The nation has faced instability and violence within its eth...
Affinity Africa Founder and CEO Tarek Mouganie Discusses the Important Impact of Banking on Socioeconomic Development in 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...
“Follow events. Write. Get your voices to be known.” 2024 Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellow Babra Bhebe on How to Make an Impact on the Future of Democracy.
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...
‘By not speaking out, you become complicit:’ Former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter on energy and corruption in South Africa
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...
Algerians Don’t Appreciate the Audacity
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...
Energy Apartheid: Planned Power Cuts Shine a Light on Electricity Inequality
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...