Tuesday’s polls were largely peaceful, although police said they were hunting a legislator who shot dead a rival’s aide outside a polling station. In the northern town of Eldas, where clashes prevented elections on Tuesday, polling stations opened peacefully on Wednesday, election officials said.

Kenya’s democratic trajectory has always been viewed by east African neighbours as the bellwether for being fairly participatory. The annulment of Kenyatta’s electoral victory on September 1, 2017 also offered crucial lessons to neighbours.

Sri Lanka has become a cautionary tale of misgovernment and misfortune as the sweeping impact of the pandemic crashed the vital tourism sector, and then came the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which disrupted global supply chains and accelerated the inflationary spiral that dragged Sri Lanka’s economy into an abyss.

Regional markets are battling to forestall mounting food deficits following a series of poor rainfall seasons, which were in 2020 compounded by pandemic induced supply shocks.

This follows several pledges by some African governments, European states and development agency pledged several amounts to fund the agency with South Africa making the highest payment of US$10 million during the Extraordinary Summit on Humanitarian Affairs and Donors Conference in Malabo.

In every African mass market, that is ironically shunned by the African middle class in preference for supermarkets, it is common to see Chinese nationals buying local food and taking samples for research.