Africa: 'One Finger in Clean Energy, Two Legs in Fossil Fuels' - TotalEnergies Accused of COP29 Greenwashing Offensive

TotalEnergies' charm offensive has ramped up, having been found guilty of making misleading claims about its commitment to sustainability this year. Read more »

Africa: 'A Robbery On So Large a Scale' - 140 Years After the Berlin West Africa Conference

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

Africa: 'The Worst First Week of a COP' - Frustrations Rise As Week Two Begins

Negotiators and activists from Africa say there has been very little positive progress at COP29 as well as a worrying focus on false solutions. Read more »

Africa: COP29 - Why Africa's $1.3 Trillion Climate Goal Makes Perfect Sense

Global leaders should keep in mind that the benefits of climate financing far outweigh the costs of implementing them. Read more »

Africa: Fudged Figures, Gas, and Debt - Digging Into MDBs' 'Climate Finance'

Half of all Multilateral Development Banks' climate finance goes to Europe. Just 4% is grants. We don't just need more but better climate finance. Read more »

Africa: The Real 'Gift From God' - Why the Africa Energy Bank Is a Bad Idea

A coalition of African oil-producers is set to launch a $5bn oil bank. This is not just environmentally but economically misguided. Read more »

South Sudan: Land Scarcity in Northern Bahr El Ghazal - Implications for Returns

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

Africa: 'Extremely Urgent' - an Interview With the Head of the Adaptation Fund

With the Global South hoping COP29 can bring progress on the $215-387 bn per year needed for adaptation, we spoke to the head of the Adaptation Fund. Read more »

Africa: COP29 - Setting a Climate Finance Target Is Only Half the Battle for Africa

New analysis finds that the average cost of capital for power projects in Africa is triple that of other parts of the world. Read more »

Africa: Smart Gamble or Foolish Risk? the Case for and Against Nuclear in Africa

Nuclear energy is low carbon, high intensity and consistent, but also expensive, hazardous, and perhaps simply unnecessary. Read more »

Mozambique: The Revolution Began When the Liberation Party Ran Out of Gas

Another stolen election has sent the people into the streets. The people await Venancio Mondlane, the leader of the protest movement. The old elite await a $50 billion resource… Read more »

Africa: African Philanthropy - Reflections On Equitable Giving

Western imperialism arrived in Africa, dubiously, as philanthropy. In the 21st century, what is the meaning and impact of African philanthropy? Read more »

South Africa: Harris or Trump? South Africa's AGOA Fate Hangs in the Balance

Facing Washington's wrath for her perceived anti-US foreign policy positions may not be as catastrophic as previously imagined. Read more »

Uganda: It's Time for Total and Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation to Clean Up and Go Home

A months-long investigation into the Kingfisher oil project in Uganda finds disastrous consequences for the environment and human rights. Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Children and the Coltan Wars in Eastern Congo

With at least 40,000 coerced into mining coltan, and several global tech brands directly implicated in funding conflict, pressure needs to bear on stopping the war as an imperative… Read more »

Zimbabwe: The Rise of the Mbingas

Commonly called mbingas for their penchant for luxury, many of Zimbabwe's richest men and women are vessels for the ruling party's looting of state coffers. Read more »

Africa: Mau Mau - Mukami Kimathi's Swansong to a City At War

72 years after the Declaration of Emergency in Kenya triggered one of the bloodiest anti-colonial wars in history, little has changed for survivors. Read more »

Africa: State Fragmentation and New State Imaginaries - Maritime Access in the Horn of Africa

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

Africa: How Traffickers Got Away With the Biggest Rosewood Heist in History

Ten years after officials seized $50 million worth of illegally harvested rosewood from Madagascar, the logs sit in limbo in a Singapore port. Read more »

Africa: Power Struggle in Tigray

As Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed continues to renege on the Pretoria Agreement that ended hostilities two years ago, infighting within the TPLF further threatens the tenuous stability in… Read more »

Africa: COP29 Must Kickstart Stalled Progress On the Lifeline That Is Adaptation

Targets for adapting to climate change are meaningless without the means to act. It's time for a clear adaptation finance goal. Read more »

Africa: Sci-Fi, Folklore, and Faith - Korede Azeez's Unique Lens As a Nigerian Muslim Filmmaker

Korede Azeez is one of the Nigeria's most prolific breakout filmmakers. Her journey sheds light on the broader landscape of women in Nigeria's expanding film industry. Read more »

Africa: Anti-Malarial Drug Resistance Is Making Malaria Normal Again

As Egypt is certified malaria-free, the parasite is developing resistance to treatments, costing the continent $127 billion in lost GDP by 2030, 600,000 lives a year and,… Read more »

Africa: What Must Happen After the Summit of the Future?

What would the manifesto for a more inclusive world look like if it were drafted by people with disabilities? It was, a few weeks ago at a UN Summit. But is it enough? Read more »

Africa: The Deepfake Is a Powerful Weapon in the War in Sudan

While still rudimentary - voice-cloning models can't yet relay convincing Sudanese dialects - the use of Deepfakes is now routinely used on Sudan's violent, if bloodless,… Read more »