A coalition of political parties from Ethiopia’s Tigray region has called on foreign governments and international organisations to pressure Addis Ababa to ease restrictions on the region and prevent what it warned could be a renewed war. In a letter addressed to governments including Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, the United States and Britain, as well as the United Nations, African Union and European Union, the Tigray Political Parties Forum (TPPF) said tensions were rising more than three years after a peace deal ended the two-year conflict in northern Ethiopia. The forum said key…
Flash floods have ravaged Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, killing more than 20 people as heavy rains continue to batter the city and other parts of the country. Kenyan President William Ruto on Saturday expressed condolences to families affected by the severe flooding in Nairobi and other regions, saying the disaster has caused “immense distress,” including deaths, displacement, and property damage. In a statement, Ruto said the government was taking immediate action to mitigate the impact of the floods, including “deploying a multi-agency emergency response team led by the Ministry of Interior and…
A New York–based rights group on Saturday said it was alarmed by reports that Kenyan authorities issued passports to a sanctioned Sudanese war financier and other individuals linked to Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, calling for international scrutiny of Nairobi. The Human Rights Foundation (HRF), which is headquartered in New York City, said the alleged move could help members or supporters of the RSF evade international sanctions. “HRF is alarmed by reports indicating that Kenyan authorities issued passports to a sanctioned Sudanese war financier and other individuals linked to…
The Sudanese Armed Forces announced that they had gained full control of the strategic city of Bara in North Kordofan State on Thursday, following a large-scale military operation carried out by army units supported by joint forces and local popular resistance groups. The recapture of the city came after intense fighting that resulted in the expulsion of Rapid Support Forces (RSF) units, which had been using Bara as a forward base for their operations in the region. Official army platforms circulated video footage showing troops deployed across the city’s main markets and entry points, as…
Since Israel recognized Somaliland on December 26, 2025, Hargeisa has faced a complex equation: a rare political and diplomatic breakthrough with commercial opportunities on one hand, and potential security risks on the other. While the Port of Berbera could benefit from Israeli engagement and related investments, it could simultaneously become a more exposed target in the already volatile regional environment surrounding the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Hargeisa appears keen to translate Israeli recognition into tangible gains. In an interview with Reuters on February 3, 2026, Somaliland…
As Addis Ababa turns to gold to stabilise a fragile economy, its attempt to suppress artisanal mining and promote industrial projects reveals a deeper paradox: the state cannot secure growth without stability, yet its pursuit of control often produces the instability it seeks to resolve.…
Behind the language of rescue, a transnational adoption industry has turned African children into commodities, exposing them to trafficking, abuse, and lifelong displacement.…
Turkey’s engagement with Ethiopia signals a bid to contain maritime tensions in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden through diplomacy backed by restraint. As regional rivalries sharpen, Ankara positions itself as a balancing power between Ethiopian ambitions and Somali sovereignty.…
Embedded in the legal architecture of colonial-era water allocations and shaped by rival visions of development, the Nile dispute reveals structural tensions within the regional order. Ethiopia’s invocation of developmental sovereignty and Egypt’s discourse of existential threat signal a deeper contest over who ultimately decides the future of the Nile’s waters.…
Israel’s recognition of Somaliland breaks a three-decade diplomatic deadlock. But in a volatile Red Sea moment, it may also raise the costs of recognition rather than lower them.…
The US-Israeli war on Iran is the latest expression of a long imperial pattern—one shaped by opportunistic intervention, Western alignment, and the enduring racialized logic of empire.…
Somalia’s parliament finalized a controversial constitutional review process, but the process -- overshadowed by haste, a lack of consensus, and a disputed approval threshold -- now risks undermining the federal balance that has anchored the republic since 2012.…
Welcomed in 1969 as a revolution of hope, Mohamed Siad Barre’s military regime swiftly dismantled constitutional rule and built a vast security state to crush dissent. Through censorship, imprisonment, and exile, it hollowed out the country’s intellectual class, leaving a vacuum that deepened national collapse.…
Across ports, pilgrimages, and centuries of movement, Africans became woven into the social and political fabric of Palestine. Their presence reveals a solidarity rooted not in ideology alone, but in lived history, memory, and resistance.…
Trump’s renewed offer to mediate the GERD dispute has been welcomed in Cairo, but with visible caution. Behind the optimism lies a deep-seated fear of miscalculation, shaped by history and doubts over Washington’s true intentions.…
From imperial rule to fascist occupation, Haile Gerima has made cinema a battleground over memory and truth. His latest work renews a lifelong struggle to decolonize the screen and restore Ethiopia to its own image.…
A redevelopment project in Nairobi’s Ngara district promises revival—but raises deeper questions about capital, memory, and who has the right to shape the city.…
More than a global pop wave, Afrobeats has become a language of identity shaped by the city, the diaspora, and digital circulation. Between rhythm and image, market and meaning, it repositions Africa as a producer of culture rather than a subject of nostalgia or crisis.…
Meja Mwangi wrote from the margins, giving voice to urban poverty, disillusionment, and post-independence Kenya without courting fame. His death invites a reckoning with how Africa remembers its writers and how many are only truly seen after they are gone.…
iShowSpeed’s Africa tour is widely celebrated as respectful and refreshing, yet it operates within a long tradition of racialized spectacle that turns Africa into content and Blackness into performance.…
Through one novel, two distant wars echo each other, exposing how hunger, fear, and internal division follow the same script across continents. …
As African fiction moved from rural worlds to urban centers, place began to reshape not just stories, but the form of the novel itself.…
David Elstein’s attack on David Olusoga’s docuseries on the legacy of the British empire reveals less about historical error than about the enduring impulse to rehabilitate British colonial rule.…
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Professor Hakim Adi, the first professor of the history of African heritage in the UK, speaks to Geeska about Pan-Africanism, Africa’s relationship with China, and his belief in history as a tool for change.Professor Hakim Adi is a prominent British-Nigerian pan-African. …
Why have I dedicated myself to this arduous task, you may wonder? Well, as Fanon himself eloquently stated in his treatise, “Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.” …
Stuart Reid’s new book, The Lumumba Plot, revisits Patrice Lumumba’s assassination, with strong insight into the role of the US in assassinating Lumumba and bringing down the government of one of Africa’s most iconic leaders. …
Leaders across the Horn of Africa have touted the innumerable benefits of building ports for their people, putting them at the heart of their projects to develop their regions. …
South Africa’s decision to take Israel to the ICJ on charges of genocide could cost his country, says former South African ambassador and anti-apartheid activist Ebrahim Rasool, but is an act of “enormous integrity” …
Somalia’s parliament has passed controversial constitutional amendments, triggering a new political crisis at a time of rapid regional and global change. Somalia’s former Foreign Minister, Mohamed Abdirizak, reflects on what this moment reveals about the country’s institutions, politics, and future.…
Troops and heavy weapons movements have been reported across northern Ethiopia as friction intensifies between Addis Ababa and Asmara, fueling growing fears that conflict could once again engulf Tigray. Geeska spoke with Michael DeAngelo about the developments in northern Ethiopia.…
A South Sudanese writer reflects on literary courage, advocacy in times of war, and the power of storytelling across Arab and African worlds.…
A conversation with the Sudanese novelist Amir Tag Elsir on writing as fate rather than choice, and the exhaustion that never quite becomes silence. From medicine to myth, Sudan to the world, he reflects on language, identity, and why the novel remains impossible to abandon.…
Somalia’s former national security advisor, Hussein Sheikh-Ali, speaks to Geeska about Houthi cooperation with Al-Shabaab.…