By Joy Makena

If you are alive then you have encountered some form of media or another. In fact, if you have access to the internet (which according to Internet World Stats is about 89.7% of Kenyans), then you have encountered digital media. Many of us use the media for information, for connection and just for laughs. But in the age of clout-chasers and fake news, how can we, as youth, be more responsible in our media use and production? The answer to that is Media Literacy.

Conflicts are believed to affect men and women in different ways. Women and children are considered the most affected and therefore the main victims in conflict situations. It is therefore believed that the specific needs of women and children for a long time where not considered until the year 2000. Women constitute the better percentage of the population of Africa and the world at large. The United Nations Security Council (2000) adopted resolution 1325 on women which recognized the damaging effects of conflict on girls and women.

The UK-Africa Investment Summit on 20 January 2020 laid the foundations for new partnerships between the UK and African nations based on trade, investment, shared values and mutual interest. Billions of pounds of new commercial deals were announced highlighting the strength of the UK’s offer and existing relationships with Africa.

When Regis Umugiraneza graduated from college in Rwanda he didn’t know what to do. Then he discovered that sweet potatoes, a popular harvest in his country, could be the answer.

In reviewing the decade, a recent Financial Times article, Ethiopia seizes crown as the fastest-growing country in the 2010s acknowledges this fact. The country’s focus on productive investment, industrialisation, and education continues to generate jobs and economic growth. Here I look at the growing impact of foreign investment across Africa and consider the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead for the continent.

Some argue that the solution is simply to impose fiscal discipline, cut expenditures, address policy failures, strengthen the rule of law, reduce red tape, curb corruption and other dysfunctionalities, as well as eliminate market failures and inefficiencies that are hindering progress.