Uganda: 'An Ecological War Is Going On' - Uganda Charcoal Booms Despite Ban

Our undercover investigation highlights how easily corruption and unclear borders continue to undermine the charcoal ban in Uganda. Read more »

Africa: Cop or Con? How Big Conservation Captured Biodiversity Protection

There are two approaches to protecting biodiversity. One is colonial, abusive and ineffective, but hugely profitable for certain actors. Read more »

Africa: How the World Bank and IMF Can Truly Drive a Clean Energy Transition

The financial institutions' current approaches to funding renewable energy projects are far too limited, rigid, and opaque. Read more »

Sudan: Beyond the Battlefield - the Survival Politics of the RSF Militia in Sudan

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: Africa in a Multipolar World

How does the continent press its advantages in the age of multipolarity, summit diplomacy and the new scramble for minerals for the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Read more »

Africa: Did the Tumaini Initiative Exceed Its Mandate?

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 »

Uganda: Uganda's Struggles Resettling Climate-Displaced Communities

Landslides and flash floods, made more likely by climate change, and deforestation have made some areas of Uganda permanently risky to live in. Read more »

South Africa: Will an Investor-Friendly Mining Policy Turn the Economy Around?

Reviving South Africa's flagging mining sector will take much more than the cosmetics of a new investor-friendly policy. Read more »

Africa: Hundreds of Local Malawians Quietly Leave World Bank Climate Project

Experts warn that payment problems and a lack of local ownership could undermine the effectiveness of a nationwide adaptation project. Read more »

Rwanda: The Revolution Devours Its Children - the Fall of a Royal House in Republican Rwanda

The rise and scattering of an elite family, not on account of their ethnicity, but despite it, exemplifies the tragedy of authoritarianism in Rwanda. Read more »

South Africa: Why Gas Is Not a Good Alternative to Coal for South Africa

Vested interests are lobbying for gas as a transition fuel despite its many economic, logistical, and environmental risks. Read more »

Africa: The Digital Future of Pharmacy in Africa

Amid the drain of Africa's trained healthcare workers to the West, pharmacists are increasingly playing a frontline role that goes beyond dispensing drugs. Read more »

Africa: On World Meningitis Day, Too Many People Are Dying of Cryptococcal Meningitis in Africa

Improving outcomes for patients requires urgent efforts to reduce the price of treatments and increase access to drugs. Read more »

Ethiopia: Ethiopia's Quest for a Seaport, Egypt and the Geopolitics of the Nile Basin

Tensions between Ethiopia and Egypt go back decades and reveal a web of Cold War intrigue, clandestine diplomacy and internal meddling. With Cairo winning friends and Addis Ababa… Read more »

Africa: In Memoriam - Elleni Centime Zeleke's Tizita

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 »

Rwanda: Black-and-White Thinking About Rwanda

Spotting discrimination, polarisation and propaganda are important functions of the media. But to do that, journalists must be able to recognise them. Read more »

Ethiopia: The Destruction and Looting of Heritage in the Tigray War

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

Africa: Without Debt Relief, Africa Is Fighting Climate Change With Its Hands Tied

Africa spends nearly three times more servicing its external debt than it receives in climate finance. Debt cancelation is urgent and critical. Read more »

Africa: 'Absolutely Ridiculous' - Zombie Mines Multiply in SA's Opaque Coal Sector

African Arguments visited ten "active" coal mines around Ermelo in South Africa. Three were abandoned, and had been for years according to locals. Read more »

Zambia: 'That's No Joke' - Hichilema Gears Up to Change Zambia's Constitution

Zambia's increasingly authoritarian president has spuriously warned that elections could be delayed for 8-9 years unless the constitution is amended. Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: 'Making a Mockery' - Ending Fortress Conservation in DR Congo and Beyond

The court ruling on the rights of the expelled Batwa people could pave the way for the paradigm shift we need. Read more »

Africa: Hiding the Coco - Women Farmers Anticipating Old Age

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

Rwanda: Beneath the Facade of Consensus Democracy

25 years after the Inter-Rwandan Dialogue birthed 'consensus democracy', it is now time to revisit and renew the system. Read more »

Africa: Eritrean Cycling - How a Colonial Legacy Became a National Passion

Italian Fascists used cycling to demonstrate their racial superiority; Eritrean cyclists were soon embarrassing them. Today, a new generation of world-beaters is escaping another… Read more »

Africa: How Saving the Pangolin Became a Nigerian Conservation Agenda

Nigeria's pangolins face extinction. One organisation is committed to reversing the trend - and coopting communities into conservation. Read more »