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 »

Africa: Introducing Parselelo and a New Climate Focus

African Arguments is excited to announce two big changes. Read more »

Africa: Why 30×30 Would Be the Worst Possible Outcome of COP15

The plan to turn 30% of the earth into Protected Areas is based on a deeply unscientific and racist logic. Read more »

Africa: Agroecology Is the African-Led Solution We Need From COP27

Industrialised agriculture is big driver of emissions. Agroecology is sustainable, resilient, high yield, and gives farmers sovereignty. Read more »

Africa: COP27 - It's Africa's Time to Lead

Four lessons for African leaders as they head into the climate talks. Read more »

Africa: What African Governments Must Fight for At COP27

African delegations must demand loss and damage reparations, that fossil fuels stay in the ground, and that false solution are abandoned. Read more »

Uganda: 'The Rich Are Untouchable' - Country Struggles to Protect Its Wetlands

As communities and small businesses are cleared from environmentally precious zones, big companies expand unabated. Read more »

Mauritius: A Class Action Lawsuit Bubbles Two Years After the Oil Spill

1,800 people have filed a motion demanding to be heard in a court case regarding the MV Wakaisho's liability for the devastating spill. Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Congo's Oil Auction - Foiling Climate Colonialism or Filling the Coffers?

The DRC has two main goals in selling oil blocks that overlap with the world's second largest rainforest. Neither involves developing oil. Read more »

Africa: Fortress Conservation Is Heading for a Crisis That Can't Come Soon Enough

Governments "protect" wildlife from the very people who have conserved it for centuries, while allocating mining concessions in the same areas. Read more »

Ghana: A Year After the Violent Demolition of the Agbogbloshie Scrapyard

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 »

East Africa: The Bold Campaign to Defund the East African Crude Oil Pipeline

Activists have convinced 20 big banks not to finance the controversial oil project leaving its fate in the balance. Read more »

East Africa: Why Lake Victoria's 'Saviour Fish' Is Now the One That Needs Saving

Despite local measures to combat pollution and overfishing, stocks of the once bountiful Nile perch have fallen by at least three-quarters. Read more »

Cameroon: The #AfricaClimateCrisis Tinderbox in Northern Cameroon

Amid growing resource scarcities, dozens have died and tens of thousands have been displaced by fighting triggered by a cow drowning. Read more »

East Africa: Lake Victoria Locals Blame Companies for Mysterious Mass Fish Die-Offs

Governments blame a range of factors for tonnes of dead fish washing up. Local fisherman and environment officers blame polluting industries. Read more »

Africa: Caring About Conservation Is Not Enough. We Need to Make It Pay #AfricaClimateCrisis

Local groups know how to protect nature and support local communities, but they need help with realistic funding and commercial expertise. Read more »

Africa: Code Red for Continent's Blue Economy #AfricaClimateCrisis

Coastal and marine resources will be central to the food, energy, and jobs, so long as the right strategies are put in place. Read more »

Africa: Why What's Good for TotalEnergies Is Bad for the Rest of Us

The oil and gas major's record-breaking profits will do little to comfort the people of the Global South. Read more »

Africa: People With Disabilities Have Been Forgotten. Not Any More

This is the year to take real action on disability rights in Africa, starting by ratifying the ADP. Read more »

Madagascar: The Forgotten, Cascading Crisis in Madagascar #AfricaClimateCrisis

The world's first famine caused by climate change rather than conflict continues amid insufficient domestic and global attention. Read more »

Africa: 2022 Is Africa's Year to Lead the World On Climate Change

The COP27 climate summit on African soil will be the continent's chance to put the needs of vulnerable nations above the interests of rich countries. Read more »

Africa: We Need a People-Centred COP26. Instead, We Have an Elite Marketplace #AfricaClimateCrisis

COP26 is full of big boys in small rooms. It needs to be led by the people, not Northern elites with the financial interests in maintaining the status quo. Read more »

Africa: Please Don't Fall for COP26's Empty Rhetoric #AfricaClimateCrisis

COP26 is not the solution to climate change. It needs to be a catalyst for action. Read more »

Mozambique: The Farmers Navigating Conflict, Climate Change and Covid #AfricaClimateCrisis

Despite facing a triple threat with little government support, female farmers have proven surprisingly resilient. Read more »

Zimbabwe: 'We Cannot Co-Exist' - Locals Decry New Coal Project in Zimbabwe #AfricaClimateCrisis

As delegates discuss the future global impact of coal use at COP26, Dinde villagers fear immediate displacement and environment degradation. Read more »