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The decline of the U.S. shipbuilding industry is, besides being an industrial failure, a strategic warning for emerging maritime nations, particularly in Africa. What we are witnessing is a stark…
Uganda’s decision to move forward with its $4 billion oil refinery is significant for a country that was dependent on imported petroleum for many decades. This move signals a deliberate…
The map of African continent and its trade patterns tell a story that is both encouraging and deeply unsettling. Across Africa, visible pockets of momentum exist—West Africa’s commercial corridors, East…
Few places on the global map illustrate the power of geography as decisively as Djibouti. Perched at the southern gateway to the Red Sea and astride the Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint,…
The admission of the first cohort of marine pilots from Mogadishu into the Technical University of Mombasa’s Institute of Maritime and Seafaring Studies marks a major routine academic milestone in…
Few public servants have seen their careers so perfectly mirror the evolution of a nation’s strategic consciousness as Nancy Karigithu has. Her departure few day ago as Presidential Adviser on…
In the turbulent and complex maritime domain, leadership is not merely a function of rank—it is a matter of readiness, judgment, and the capacity to act decisively when stakes are…
For many years, inland water transport across the Lake Victoria basin has been the sleeping giant of East Africa’s logistics network with huge potential, but it has remained underutilized. However,…
The quiet map of global trade is being redrawn—not in stock exchanges or diplomatic halls, but along Africa’s coastlines. Ports, once treated as passive gateways for imports and exports, are…
Few places in the world embody the promise and peril of natural resource wealth as starkly as Cabo Delgado Province. Beneath its offshore waters in the Rovuma Basin lies one…