by The Fikiria Desk | Sep 9, 2019 | Content
A reform is only as strong as the evidence a reader can check on the day it is announced. On 9 September 2019 Ethiopia launched a three-year Homegrown Economic Reform Agenda to stabilise the macroeconomy, widen private participation and raise productivity across...
by The Fikiria Desk | Aug 5, 2019 | Content
Good reporting on a resource project is mostly the discipline of separating what is documented from what is hoped. A financing announcement invites a rush of projection — future exports, jobs, prices — most of which cannot be verified today. The more valuable exercise...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jul 7, 2019 | Content
In a moment of continental significance, the temptation is to reach for grand claims the evidence cannot yet support. Discipline demands the opposite: separate what is verifiable on the day from what is merely hoped for later. On 7 July, in Niamey, leaders launched...
by The Fikiria Desk | Feb 25, 2019 | Content
Some stories are best told as evidence rather than opinion, and a new law is one of them. Uganda has enacted the Data Protection and Privacy Act, establishing rules for the collection, processing, storage and transfer of personal data. The event is precise, the...