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Sylvia Chebet
Senior Editor, TRT AFRIKA English
Senior Editor, TRT AFRIKA English
Articles from author
Mauritius vs UK: The hidden story of Chagos Islands
While colonial rule in Africa appeared to have formally ended with South Africa’s triumph over the apartheid regime, Mauritius has yet to achieve full decolonization, and the US-Iran war has thrown its sovereignty dream into further disarray.
10 min read
River blindness: How Congo-Brazzaville is tackling the neglected tropical disease along Congo River
The debilitating disease presents with intense itching, skin rashes, thickening, and can ultimately lead to blindness.
4 min read
Sudan war: After 1,000 days of fighting, women bear the brunt of world's worst humanitarian crisis
Friday, Jan. 9, marks the 1,000th day of war in Sudan. The UN says majority of female-headed households are suffering acute hunger crisis.
5 min read
How the first quarter of this century changed the world
From imagining a telephone as a bell in the 1960s to teaching over Zoom in a borderless digital village, each generation proves how technology keeps widening the radius of human possibility.
7 min read
Community to crisis: How Africa became the world's loneliest continent
A WHO report states that loneliness claims 100 lives globally each hour while strong social ties promote health, longevity and productivity, proving that human connection is as vital as medicine.
5 min read
Butcher of Al Fasher: How Sudan's agony became his spectacle
The "Butcher of Al Fasher" has become the face of crimes against humanity in Sudan, highlighting how RSF's turf war with the military has descended into militia savagery as the world watches from the sidelines.
5 min read
Elie Minema: Ebola survivor on the cusp of medical history
From surviving Ebola to potentially becoming the last known patient on record, this young man's recovery after the recent outbreak in DRC marks a turning point in the country's long battle against the virus.
3 min read
City under siege: Why Al Fasher might be the endgame in Sudan's war
Al Fasher is now the epicentre of Sudan's unending internal conflict, with the paramilitary RSF raising an earthen wall that has trapped civilians, blocked aid, and reignited ethnic violence in a fight for control.
5 min read
Mapping a lie: How cartographic distortion and colonial bias shrunk Africa
A retired cartographer confronts the world map that shaped her career, and the untruth it perpetuated about Africa's true size.
6 min read
Why there can be no pan-Africanist future without a free Palestine
The struggle for Palestinian freedom and the pan-African quest for liberation remain bound by a shared history of colonial oppression, each unable to be realised whilst the other is denied.
5 min read
