Africa: 'Economic Bondage' - East Africa Farmers Worry Over What GMOs Might Mean

While proponents of genetic modification say it can increase yields, researchers point out that Africa already grows enough food. Read more »

Mozambique: The Return to Cabo Delgado - Gas, War, and the Emergence of Total Land

While TotalEnergies remains coy about restarting the $20bn gas project, Mozambicans are coming home in the conspicuous absence of the state. Read more »

Botswana: Botswana Has Always Driven a Hard Bargain With De Beers

Botswana is not following a trend of African state negotiating more aggressively with corporations. It has long set this trend. Read more »

Tanzania: 'They Wish We Didn't Exist' - Tanzania School Goers Speak of Transport Woes

In the daily sharp-elbowed jostle to board daladalas, school students find themselves at the back of the queue. Read more »

Botswana: Why Is Botswana Rethinking Its Deal With De Beers?

Christened 'Debswana', its 50-year-old mining pact with de Beers is showing signs of strain - for some rather unexpected reasons. Read more »

Africa: Is the World Bank Really Going Green?

The Bank invests billions in fossil fuels, including through various opaque channels. Unless this changes, its public soul-searching will count for little. Read more »

Africa: Inclusion and Innovation Key to African Media Sustainability

Forced to adapt to the political establishment, and financially beset by Big Data, what is the future of Africa's media? Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria's Curious Voter Turnout Problem

Why do Nigerian voters disappear when new technology is introduced at the polling booth? Read more »

Africa: The Loud Part the IPCC Said Quietly, Global North Needs to Use Less Energy #AfricaClimateHope

You can't replace fossil fuels with renewables like swapping out a battery. The Global North will also have to drastically reduce its energy use. Read more »

Africa: The Invisible Labour of Africa in the Digital Revolution

Is it surprising that the unequal global division of labour that built Western capitalism is being reproduced on the world wide web? Read more »

Djibouti: Djibouti Fiddles Amid the Scramble for the Red Sea

Gateway to the Indo-Pacific, Djibouti is becoming the site of a 21st century scramble for ports, military bases, and economic models. Read more »

Africa: Why France EACOP Case Might Embolden, Not Discourage, Activists

Though the legal claim against TotalEnergies was dismissed on technicalities, it set some bold precedents. Read more »

Africa: Why's the AfDB Siding With the Agrochemical Industrial Complex?

Against the wishes of hundreds of millions of farmers, the bank is backing a model that can push economic dependence, soil depletion and pollution. Read more »

Nigeria: Did Nigeria's Election Tech Fail or Was It Sabotaged?

Young voters put their faith in digital technology. But at polling units nationwide, many were transported to an elections twilight zone. Read more »

Nigeria: Will Technology Deliver a Clean Election for Nigeria?

Voter registration is up, as confidence in election technology grows, but trust in the electoral commission continues to flounder. Read more »

Nigeria: Oligarchs, Oil and Obi-Dients - the Battle for the Soul of Nigeria

The end of the oil-fuelled patronage system may pose the greatest threat to the nation since the Civil War. Therein may lie its salvation. Read more »

Nigeria: "People Want to Be Rich Overnight" - Nigeria Logging Abounds Despite Ban

In Cross River state, home to much of Nigeria's remaining forest, locals and officials accuse the state government of profiting from illegal logging. Read more »

Liberia: The Unaccountability of Liberia's Polluting Miners

The government's reports and fines have not yet been sufficient to stop communities suffering from poisoned rivers. Read more »

Kenya: The 'Hustler' Fund - Kenya's Approach to National Transformation

Debating Ideas aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing… Read more »

Somalia: Berbera - The Making of a Global Port, and the Unmaking of a People

Having survived centuries of successive governments, colonialism and war, have Berbera's dockworkers finally met their match? Read more »

Chad: Chad Social Media Ban Reaches One-Year Mark

Why have Chad's internet restrictions, which started amid anti-regime protests a year ago today, endured for so long? Read more »

Africa: Why Africa Should Be At the Heart of the UK's Brexit Strategy

The UK will miss out on a huge opportunity if it neglects Africa in its Brexit plans. Here are three actions it should take. Read more »