Daily Circular
The Daily Circular, 28 October 2026
Egypt dominated the region's news today, both as a diplomatic broker and as a state tightening its grip at home. Cairo's foreign…
Daily Circular
The Daily Circular, 27 October 2026
Egypt has moved closer to the conflict around the Red Sea. Egypt Independent reports that parliament has voted to let the president…
Daily Circular
The Daily Circular, 24 September 2026
The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s displacement crisis deepened as violence in the east forced thousands to flee toward Tanganyika, according to…
Africa
The story of how Swahili became Africa’s most spoken language
Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere, a Swahili advocate. Keystone/Getty Images John M. Mugane, Harvard University Once just an obscure island dialect of an…
Africa
There is good as well as bad news about the state of governance in Africa
image from the Mo Ibrahim Foundation: 2016 IIAG Index Report Yarik Turianskyi Declining safety and deterioration in the rule of law are…