The end of the oil-fuelled patronage system may pose the greatest threat to the nation since the Civil War. Therein may lie its salvation. Nigeria’s elections ...
Growing up in South Africa, I was told my British colonial ancestors were a fundamentally decent lot. Researching a novel has taught me the opposite. In ...
In Cross River state, home to much of Nigeria’s remaining forest, locals and officials accuse the state government of profiting from illegal logging. As a child ...
The government’s reports and fines have not yet been sufficient to stop communities suffering from poisoned rivers. Last May in Grand Cape Mount County, Liberia, Varney* ...
Several international forces are deployed in the eastern Congo, where the Rwanda-backed rebel group continues to seize towns and territory. Last week, Angola’s President ...
President Saied is now threatening another of Tunisia’s hardest won freedoms. Following Tunisia’s revolution in 2011, which heralded uprisings across the Arab world, the ...
Senior officials claim not to know the whereabouts of individuals arrested nearly two years ago, as state abductions continue. On 23 August, Moses Bukenya ...
African delegations must demand loss and damage reparations, that fossil fuels stay in the ground, and that false solutions are abandoned. Climate change remains ...
The electorate’s popular will may have been defied by the MPLA’s victory, but the people were more organised, engaged and vigorous than ever before. ...
As communities and small businesses are cleared from environmentally precious zones, big companies expand unabated. Last week, state officials accompanied by security forces swept ...