November 29, 2023
Africa: Global Stocktake Q&A - What's At Stake for Africa At COP28?
What is the Global Stocktake? Where does Africa stand on it? What could it mean for climate action? Read more »
Africa: Just Transition Q&A - What's At Stake for Africa At COP28?
How can Africa energise when caught in a debt trap? What would a truly just transition look like? What won't be on the table in Dubai? Read more »
November 28, 2023
Africa: The Idea That Green Growth Will Save Africa Is Gaslighting 101
The marketisation of climate action, epitomised by Kenya's President Ruto, allows the super-rich to buy safety while the rest of us are left behind. Read more »
Africa: Adaptation Q&A - What's At Stake for Africa At COP28?
What is adaptation? What will African countries be arguing for at COP28? Against whom? Read more »
Africa: Slam Dunk for Business - The Growth of the African Sports Economy
African sport is going global: and with it come business opportunities, deals and alliances. Read more »
November 27, 2023
Central Africa: Central Africa's Dinosaur Regimes and the Art of Coup-Proofing
The putsch against Gabon's Bongo dynasty has shaken the region's fragile autocrats and tremulous gerontocrats into a desperation of self-protective measures. How much longer can… Read more »
Africa: Loss and Damage Q&A - What's At Stake for Africa At COP28?
Why is the Loss and Damage fund so important for Africa and what will likely come out of the negotiations at COP28? Read more »
November 24, 2023
Algeria: A Pebble in the Shoe - the Trials of Mohad Gasmi and the Invisible Discrimination of Southern Algeria
It is not coincidental that Gasmi's troubles began when he challenged the regime on its exploitation of mineral resources in the South. Read more »
November 23, 2023
Africa: African Women Won't Be Heard At Cop So We Wrote Our Own Climate Plan
The Women's Climate Assembly brought together movements from across Africa and came up with a powerful declaration. Read more »
November 22, 2023
Namibia: #BringPaulaAndMayaHome - the Politics Within Queer Activism in Namibia
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 »
November 16, 2023
Namibia: Nation's $10bn Green Hydrogen Project Raises Myriad Concerns
A months-long investigation highlights fears of the impact of an opaque EU-backed mega-project on nature and livelihoods. Read more »
Africa: The Loud Silence Around Africa's Complicity in the Slave Trade
When will we have an honest conversation about Africa's role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade? Read more »
Africa: What Does Africa Need Most From COP28?
A panel of African climate experts identify the continent's key priorities at the UAE climate talks. Read more »
November 15, 2023
Africa: Green Exploitation Is Still Exploitation
If leaders give in to the temptation of short-term gains, the extraction of Africa's transition minerals will follow familiar colonial dynamics. Read more »
November 14, 2023
Africa: Without Warning - Africa's Lack of Weather Stations Is Costing Lives
The US and EU, with a population of 1.1 billion, have 636 weather radar stations. Africa, with a population of 1.2 billion, has just 37. Read more »
November 09, 2023
Africa: African Makers Deserve New Things
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 »
Eritrea: All the President's Men - Isaias Afwerki's Close Circle
Eritrea's Isaias Afwerki has cultivated an ability to ward off threats, both internal and external. Below are profiles of his inner circle. Read more »
Liberia: Could Joseph Boakai Do a Biden in Liberia's Run-Off Election?
At 78, Boakai is the veteran bridesmaid of Liberian politics; like his American counterpart, he runs against a populist megastar with a comical grasp of governance. Will the… Read more »
Africa: Next Stop COP - the Compromises At the Heart of the Loss and Damage Text
After a year of debate, developing countries made significant concessions in their eagerness to pass recommendations that now go to COP28. Read more »
November 04, 2023
Africa: Liberal Democracy Is in Crisis, Does It Need Rethinking?
Authoritarianism is on the rise, coups back in fashion, and elections reduced to a perfunctory ritual. How do we reverse the slide? Read more »
November 02, 2023
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe's Third Generation Feminists After Covid-19
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 »
Africa: President Ruto Is Not Africa's Mia Mottley
Kenya's president has reinvented himself as Africa's climate champion, but his policy contradictions reveal that this is just his latest hustle. Read more »
November 01, 2023
Africa: Who Stands With Palestine?
The UN's failure to intervene effectively in the current crisis is sowing the seeds of its eventual demise - even as Israel's principle enabler destroys the last vestiges of its… Read more »
Africa: Revealed - Under One-Quarter of UK Climate Aid to Africa Goes to African-Based Orgs
The UK channels most of its climate aid to Africa through Western organisations, including $1 billion through private consultancies. Read more »
October 31, 2023
Zimbabwe: Doubts Grow Over Who'll Benefit From UAE Carbon Deal for Fifth of Zimbabwe
Carbon credit projects may make profits for a Dubai-based firm, but experts and locals are sceptical about benefits to communities and the climate. Read more »