Covid-19 remains a lethal threat; requires continuous vigilance and engagement in a region battling threats and dire structural deficiencies.

It would be a lie to say Africans are voracious readers. However, it would be equally wrong to claim they don’t like books.

East Africa’s treasury secretaries are probably going for the telecommunications sector because it is tantalisingly low-hanging fruit.

With a ratio of one person for every 10 square kilometres of land, more livestock than the human population, South Sudan is sitting on a lot of...