April 16
Sudan: On the Offensive - Military Tactics and Peace Talks for Sudan's Takeover
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April 10
Africa: Africa's Democratic Dividend
30-odd years after the restoration of multiparty democracy, is it time to reassess the practice of democracy? Read more »
April 09
Africa: The 'Not Expected' but 'Expected' Opening Speech of the African Union Commission Chairperson
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April 08
Africa: Henry Chakava (1946 - 2024) - the Publisher Who Pricked the People Into Consciousness
Chakava is best remembered for publishing some of the giants of East African literature - Okot p'Bitek, Mazrui, Meja Mwangi, Marjorie Oludhe-Macgoye, and most notably (and… Read more »
March 28
South Africa: South Africa's Energy Crisis Is Driving a 'Solar Boom', but There's a Downside
The privately-led quintupling of rooftop solar in 2 years takes some pressure off the grid but, without planning, risks deepening energy apartheid. Read more »
Africa: TotalEnergies At 100 - a Legacy of Destruction in Africa
Displacements, environmental damage, and CO2 emissions from projects in Mozambique and Uganda are just the latest chapter in a long story. Read more »
March 27
Uganda: 'The Path We've Chosen' - Uganda's Young Climate Activists Stay Defiant
Despite being targeted by the police and courts, youth activists say the dangers of EACOP going ahead remain greater than those of protesting. Read more »
March 26
Africa: The Future of IGAD Amidst Turmoil in the Horn
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March 21
Malawi: Malawi Farmers Urged to Diversify From National Staple As Yields Drop
While maize harvests plummeted after Cyclone Freddy and El Niño, and look set to stay low, other crops have shown more resilience. Read more »
March 20
Africa: The AfDB's $61bn Initiative Will Transform Agriculture but for Whom?
The one-size-fits-all Dakar II plan risks sacrificing biodiversity and smallholders for the sake of private interests. There is an alternative. Read more »
Egypt: In Sisi's Egypt 'Laws Aimed At Curbing Disinformation Are Instruments of Political Repression'
Two global disinformation experts discuss how the criminalisation of 'fake news' became an excuse for a clampdown on journalists and popular online commentators. Read more »
March 19
Malawi: Loss and Damage Fund - Delays Leave Countries Waiting and Wondering
Vulnerable countries like Malawi are not much closer to understanding how the historic new fund agreed at COP28 will actually work. Read more »
March 14
Sierra Leone: '1.5c? We're Already There', Says Sierra Leone's Climate Minister
Jiwoh Abulai, Environment and Climate Change Minister of Sierra Leone talks 30x30, land rights, carbon credits, climate finance, and more. Read more »
March 12
Africa: How a Shipping Carbon Tax Could Help Africa Build Climate Resilient Trade
Pricing the emissions of the international shipping industry could raise $100 billion/yr. Read more »
March 06
Africa: Democracy At Work - Senegalese Citizens Reshaping the Social Contract
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Ethiopia: Go to the Gulf - Is Ethiopia 'Sacrificing Its Youth' to Balance the Economy?
Observers fear that an official programme sending domestic workers to Saudi Arabia is not so different to the operations of human smugglers. Read more »
Africa: I Was the First African to Receive the Goethe Medal. I Just Gave It Back
I cannot stay silent or keep an official decoration from a government this callous to human suffering in Gaza, explains the award-winning writer. Read more »
March 05
Congo-Kinshasa: Farmers 'Chased' From Virunga Accuse 'Ruthless' Rangers of Abuses
Fertile lands in the biodiverse National Park are a coveted resource for a growing population - but those who farm there risk violent consequences. Read more »
March 01
Africa: 'I'd Give Anything to Go Back' - Pygmy Communities Face Eviction in Virunga
Despite a 2022 law that protects indigenous land rights, displacements in the name of conservation continue in the DRC. Read more »
February 29
Africa: Greenwashing Blood Money Should Have No Place in African Sport
TotalEnergies' sponsorship of AFCON, a celebration of African unity and resilience, was an insult to people across the continent. Read more »
February 28
Mozambique: Peril or Prosperity? the Risks Facing Mozambique's Long-Awaited Gas Boom
From conflict and long deferred revenues to falling gas demand, there are many reasons to believe Mozambique's LNG deal has become a liability. Read more »
February 22
Somalia: 'We Were Rich, Now We're Poor' - Life After Record Droughts in Somaliland
Without measures to build long-term resilience, fears are growing that once prosperous herders will end up depending on aid. Read more »
February 20
Uganda: 'We're Surrounded By Oil' - Activist Gardening in a Shadow of EACOP
Ugandans displaced by the mega oil pipeline are turning to African keyhole gardening for both survival and a way to channel their climate activism. Read more »
Africa: The First Oil Shock - February 1974 and the Making of Our Times
Triggered by the 1973 Yom Kippur war, an unprecedented surge in global oil prices took hold the following year. Spiralling inflation forced workers, students and soldiers onto the… Read more »
February 19
Africa: Ethiopia's Quest for Sea Access and the Question of Somali Sovereignty
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