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Raging resentment against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was evident on the streets of Kenya’s cities and towns and in social media posts during recent protests that swept across the country. As Danny Bradlow writes, the IMF isn’t the only cause of the economic crisis facing Kenya. But it seems more intent on ensuring that Kenya remains current on its debt obligations than on meeting the needs of its long-suffering citizens. He suggests some steps the IMF can take to make sure it manages its limited resources in a more transparent way, and one that is more accountable.
Despite a global ban on international buying and selling of rhino horn since 1977, South Africa has a massive stockpile of rhino horns. The government and owners of private rhino reserves continue to store horns gathered from harvesting, natural rhino deaths or confiscations. Ecologist Jason Gilchrist argues that this creates a problem: even though they’re meant to be safely stored, they’re fuelling the illegal trade.
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Danny Bradlow, University of Pretoria
Kenya is not an isolated case. Twenty-one countries are receiving IMF support.
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Jason Gilchrist, Edinburgh Napier University
In South Africa, huge stockpiles of rhino horn are kept, even though there’s a global ban on trading it.
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Chigozie Obioma, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Road to the Village is the acclaimed Nigerian author’s third novel and is about ‘a young man seeking redemption in a country on fire’.
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Wandile Sihlobo, Stellenbosch University
South Africa’s agricultural sector’s potential can only be realized if new government focusses on implementation of existing policies rather than coming up with new ones
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From our international editions
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Claire B. Wofford, College of Charleston
The Supreme Court’s decision has major implications for the criminal prosecution of Trump and for the country and how it is governed.
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Nicolas Forsans, University of Essex
As the dust settles on the attempted coup in Bolivia, people are pointing the finger at the country’s president.
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Bernard Steen, National Centre for Social Research
Navigating the 21st-century electoral map is not straightforward for political parties and the politicians asking for people’s votes.
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Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Energy experts – and even Greenpeace – underestimated solar power’s rapid global growth. As this chart shows, solar’s now set to become the world’s biggest power source within the next decade.
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Michiel van Elk, Leiden University
There are fundamental flaws in psychedelics research. But I’m still intrigued by their potential.
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