On 27th November 2025, the High Court in Machakos struck down parts of the Seeds and Plant Varieties (Amendment) Act 2012, ending more than a decade of criminalizing...
Whoever controls the seeds controls the food. What does true Seed Sovereignty look like for the small-scale farmer? On this episode of #TheBigPicturePodcast, we discuss...
A government ban on the media in South Sudan is making it difficult to verify reports about the trial of opposition leader Riek Machar, and in the resulting information...
Can you hide from state surveillance? What happens when state surveillance is used on a nation’s citizens to restrict their freedom? Kenya had nationwide protests...
Protests erupted across major cities and towns in Tanzania after the 29 October 2025 elections. These protests were unprecedented in their scale, nationwide reach, and...
Rising temperatures and erratic rainfall have supercharged the breeding of sandflies that spread kala-azar, a neglected tropical disease, putting residents of Turkana...
A sophisticated Ponzi scheme masquerading as an electric scooter investment platform targeted 50,000 victims across the African diaspora, leveraging deepfake technology...
42 men from Gallari, a community in North East Nigeria, were arbitrarily detained by the military. Three of them have finally regained freedom. Two returned with severe...
Three Syrian cargo vessels have been accused of trafficking in grain stolen from Russia-occupied Ukraine. Newly uncovered documents link the Seychelles company behind...

