by Contributed | Jul 18, 2022 | Blog
Douglas Lucas Kivoi, The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) At least one person gets killed every two days in Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi. Most of these cases are never resolved. Only 94 murder cases were registered in Nairobi courts in...
by Contributed | Jul 14, 2022 | Blog
By Emmet LIVINGSTONE At dawn in a working-class district of Kinshasa, a driver slows to a halt and hands a fistful of small bills to a traffic cop. The sight is common in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s bustling capital, where ill-paid officers are notorious...
by Contributed | Jun 30, 2022 | Blog
By Pierre-Henry DESHAYES With its ghost towns and armed men taking on a vast wilderness, one could almost mistake the Svalbard archipelago for the Wild West. But a tiny Arctic police force on these islands halfway between Norway and the North Pole keeps outlaws...