Africa: The Future of IGAD Amidst Turmoil in the Horn

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Africa: Democracy At Work - Senegalese Citizens Reshaping the Social Contract

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Africa: Ethiopia's Quest for Sea Access and the Question of Somali Sovereignty

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: 'We Demand' - a Collective Statement to the African Union

A movement of dozens of African civil society groups call on the AU to take actions in pursuit of climate justice, peace, and equality. Read more »

Morocco: The Small Oasis Town Leading the Fight Against Water Privatisation

For over 100 days, residents of Figuig in Morocco have been protesting plans to allow a private company to manage the delivery of drinking water. Read more »

Africa: Africa in the Global Village

Hidden in plain sight, Africans are in the thick of the kind of history-making that will define the 21st century. Read more »

South Africa: The Legend of Johannesburg - From Afrophobia to Acts of Kindness

Zukiswa Wanner pays homage to a city where the contradictions of violence and Ubuntu seem more marked than perhaps anywhere else. Read more »

Africa: Democracy in Peril - Amb Johnnie Carson on Situation in Senegal

The looming danger of democratic collapse is a challenge to friends of Senegal and democracy to do better. Read more »

Morocco: Turning Grief Into Action - Families of Dead and Disappeared Migrants in Morocco

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: Mali - Defiant and Alone, Will the Junta Defeat the Jihadis?

Revolting against the French, expelling a UN force and walking out of ECOWAS, the Assimi Goita junta is taking out its frustrations with the jihadis on everyone. How does it save… Read more »