Politics & Policy

Politics & Policy

UK to cut asylum “golden ticket” with tougher restrictions

Britain will force asylum seekers to wait 20 years before they can apply for permanent residence, up from five years currently, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will announce on Monday
Shabana Mahmood, the UK's Home Secretary
ObituariesOpinionPolitics & Policy

Raila Odinga, Kenyan politician, 1945-2025

A perennial opposition leader and master tactician, Raila Odinga embodied both the hopes of reform and the compromises of establishment politics in post-independence Kenya
A man seated at a conference table delivers a speech. The camera is focussed on his face, while his background is mainly blurred. He is facing away from the partially blurred microphone and looking at someone in the audience. The man, Raila Odinga, passed away in India on 15 October 2025.
East African CommunityPolitics & Policy

Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan is as repressive as John Magufuli, her predecessor

President Samia Hassan, who is seeking re-election this month, increasingly resembles her predecessor John Magufuli, who banned media, censored journalists, stifled the opposition and rigged elections before his death in 2021
President Samia Suluhu Hassan of the United Republic of Tanzania inspecting the the guard of honour in during a state visit to South Africa in March 2023
Politics & Policy

Focusing on M23 allows ADF insurgents to expand in eastern DRC

The capture of Goma and Bukavu by the M23 early this year has put further strain on the DRC's already weak national army, creating a security vacuum that the ADF has exploited to expand its operations
UPDF combat vehicles and soldiers cross to Burasi in the Democratic Republic of Congo using the newly installed ferry at the Haibale landing point on the Semliki River in February 2022. Presiding over the opening ceremony at the Burasi landing site in DRC, the Operation Shujja commander, Major General Kayanja Muhanga, noted that the crossing into Congo using this access route marks the beginning of the second phase of the operation. Maj. Gen. Kayanja revealed that the road from Burasi to Boga, a stretch of about 50km that was previously impassable, is being worked on jointly by both the UPDF and the FARDC (Congolese national army)."
Politics & Policy

Uganda’s deal with the US to take asylum seekers: what is behind it, and what is at stake?

Uganda has agreed to accept an unspecified number of third-country nationals who have applied for asylum in the US, but who cannot return home due to safety concerns
A group of people, mostly women, watch a woman place a steaming saucepan on a stove.
Politics & Policy

Despite dwindling funds, Uganda continues to offer sanctuary to refugees

The UNHCR recently reported that, by the end of July, it only had sufficient resources to support fewer than 18,000 individuals with cash and essential relief items for just two months, at the current rate of new arrivals
Children attending school in a refugee settlement in northwestern Uganda in 2019. Some children are sitting on a mat at the front of the class, while others are seated at wooden desks. A female teacher is leading the crowded class.
East African CommunityPolitics & Policy

DRC’s latest peace deal is unravelling, and it isn’t the first. What is going wrong?

Despite almost three decades of peace efforts and interventions at local, regional and international levels, the mineral-rich east of the country remains unstable
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame meets with President Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo Ahead of the 74th UN General Assembly, 24 September 2019
Politics & Policy

What are the chances that African countries adopt a unified stance against Trump’s tariff assault?

Although some analysts and trade experts have called for a unified African response to Trump’s tariff assault, there has so far been no sign of one, either from the African Union or elsewhere
A golden bust of Donald Trump, with his eyes closed, faces a globe.
Politics & Policy

Land conflicts: do populist state measures actually fix problems?

Do populist state measures – especially when launched by a politically powerful leader – deliver improvements for the stated beneficiaries?
Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni, gestures, while smiling, and seated, in an October 2023 photo
CommoditiesPolitics & Policy

Why bartering Africa’s minerals for security is a bad idea

A US-brokered peace deal between the DRC and Rwanda binds the two nations in a worrying arrangement: one where a country signs away its mineral resources to a superpower in return for vague promises of security
Four men working in an open-pit mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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