Nairobi’s Balancing Act: Kenya Courts the IMF and Beijing at Once The Trial Tanzania Cannot Win: Tundu Lissu and the Politics of a Stalled Treason Case Three Million Shillings for a Dead Child: Why Ruto’s Compensation Fund Backfired El Fasher Has Fallen. El-Obeid Is Next. And Africa Is Still Looking Away Ol Kalou Is Not a By-Election. It Is a Referendum on Who Owns Mt Kenya AGOA’s Countdown: Africa’s Duty-Free Lifeline Is Slipping Away A Year After Washington, the Congo Peace Is Running on Fumes Uganda’s First Oil Is Flowing, and East Africa’s Balance of Power Is Shifting Nairobi’s Balancing Act: Kenya Courts the IMF and Beijing at Once The Trial Tanzania Cannot Win: Tundu Lissu and the Politics of a Stalled Treason Case Three Million Shillings for a Dead Child: Why Ruto’s Compensation Fund Backfired El Fasher Has Fallen. El-Obeid Is Next. And Africa Is Still Looking Away Ol Kalou Is Not a By-Election. It Is a Referendum on Who Owns Mt Kenya AGOA’s Countdown: Africa’s Duty-Free Lifeline Is Slipping Away A Year After Washington, the Congo Peace Is Running on Fumes Uganda’s First Oil Is Flowing, and East Africa’s Balance of Power Is Shifting

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By-Passing Diplomacy? Zelensky Appeals Directly to Putin in a New Open Letter

Abel Omasete / June 5, 2026

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has directly challenged Vladimir Putin to a face-to-face meeting to negotiate an end to the war. In an open letter to the Kremlin, Zelensky argued that peace requires direct engagement rather than waiting for the US attention to shift back to Europe.