by The Fikiria Desk | Nov 24, 2023 | Content
In a week of celebratory statements, the discipline is to separate what is documented from what is merely declared. When the East African Community admitted Somalia as its eighth partner state on 24 November 2023, the temptation was to narrate the future. The more...
by The Fikiria Desk | Oct 26, 2023 | Content
On a day of announcements it is easy to confuse what was declared with what was delivered. The Democratic Republic of Congo has an interest in keeping the two apart, because corridors are financed on promises and judged on evidence. On 26 October 2023, in Washington,...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jul 17, 2023 | Content
The discipline of covering a programme like this is separating what is documented today from what will only be knowable later. On 17 July 2023 the IMF approved a 38-month Extended Credit Facility of US$271 million for Burundi, built on macroeconomic stabilisation,...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 20, 2023 | Content
In a season of AI announcements, the scarce commodity is not ambition but evidence. Claims travel faster than the documents that would verify them, and a policy becomes a headline long before anyone assembles the record behind it. Rwanda’s national...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 19, 2023 | Content
In a story this consequential, the discipline that matters most is knowing what can actually be verified today, and refusing to report the rest. As of 19 April 2023, the verifiable core is narrow and firm: CMOC and Gécamines have reached a settlement over royalties at...