by The Fikiria Desk | Dec 19, 2022 | Content
The trouble with infrastructure announcements is that the claim and the evidence arrive on different days. The PEACE cable entered commercial service this week with a landing in Djibouti, adding a high-capacity route between Asia, Africa and Europe. A responsible...
by The Fikiria Desk | Oct 6, 2022 | Content
In a fast-moving story, the temptation is to report the future; the discipline is to report only what a document, a date and a data point can support. On 6 October 2022, Safaricom Ethiopia began commercial service, and this is an attempt to build the evidence pack for...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 29, 2022 | Content
In a story this large, the most useful thing a newsroom can do is separate what is documented from what is merely hoped. On 29 April 2022 the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia signed a cooperation agreement to build a shared electric-vehicle battery value chain...
by The Fikiria Desk | Mar 29, 2022 | Content
In a region where integration is often reported as spectacle, the more useful discipline is evidence, that is, what can be verified from primary documents and data on the day itself, and what must wait as a separately dated follow-up. East Africa has a long record of...
by The Fikiria Desk | Feb 26, 2022 | Content
The difference between reporting a launch and understanding it is the evidence pack behind it. On the day a national programme is unveiled, the temptation is to describe the ambition; the discipline is to fix what can actually be verified from primary documents, and...