Mar 13, 2026 | Nairobi, News, Research
By Jerry Okal, Rosebella Apollo and Jack Makau An estimated 300,000 children in Nairobi’s informal settlements attend school each day without the certainty of a reliable meal. While the Nairobi County’s “Dishi na County” programme has been hailed as a novel programme...
Mar 4, 2026 | Mogadishu, News, Research
By the Heritage Institute for Policy Studies, as part of the ACRC Mogadishu transition project An estimated 70% of Somalia’s population is under the age of 30. Young people living in the country’s capital city, Mogadishu, face a multitude of challenges – as explored...
Feb 4, 2026 | Nairobi, News, Research
In a new open access book, Peasants to Paupers: Land, Class and Kinship in Central Kenya, Peter Lockwood – former Hallsworth Fellow at The University of Manchester and now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Goettingen – tells the human stories behind...
Jan 23, 2026 | Action research, Lagos, News, Research
Safe streets make for safe cities, but a lack of lighting can exacerbate the everyday insecurity of urban residents. ACRC’s safety and security research in Lagos found the absence of streetlighting in low-income areas to be a key concern among residents, as the cover...
Dec 18, 2025 | Action research, Freetown, News, Research
“Kush is very easy to find here in Kolleh Town. People sell it openly, sometimes on the roadside, near junctions, and even close to our schools. You don’t even need to go far.” – Community member, Kolleh Town, Sierra Leone Kush is a type of synthetic drug that is...
