Yearly Archives: 2024
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“You can’t wake up today and tell Africans to stop cooking with fire”
African Arguments spoke to Namibia’s Industrialisation and Trade Minister about industrial strategy, unjust trade, and green hydrogen controversies. Namibia exports mostly unprocessed goods – like minerals, ... -
Here are 3 steps governments can take to reduce risks of green grabs
What can governments do to mitigate the risks carbon offsets can pose to rights, livelihoods, food security, and ecosystems? In recent years, the pace and scale ... -
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South Africa’s new pro-coal pro-corporate environment minister
South Africa’s environmental justice movement will have its work cut out challenging the interests of fossil capital under the unity government. There are huge profits to ... -
Malawi’s farmers on the front line of climate change-related storms
In one of the countries most vulnerable to extreme weather, mostly women farmers are struggling after losing land, livestock, and livelihoods. According to the 2021 Global ... -
Shared Poverty and the Curse of Unemployment in Rural South Africa
What do rural dwellers in South Africa do to address the curse of unemployment? -
“All is lost”?: Cameroon’s controversial logging in biodiverse Ebo forest
Why has the government awarded a logging concession in the mega biodiverse Ebo forest to a little-known company? When Yetina Victor last visited the Ebo forest ... -
How the international financial system exports extinction to the DRC
Biodiversity loss from unequal mining deals is not a glitch. It’s the logical end point of multiple transnational pressures. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ... -
Houses of Hope: Populism and South Africa’s Complex Urban-Rural Connections
Rural aspiration and homes expansion across South Africa’s urban-rural divide -
Cairo’s Faustian bargain with Brussels sends Sudanese refugees back into the cauldron
The third deal the EU is signing with a ‘partner’ state since 2016, a cash-strapped Egypt did not hesitate to justify Europe’s immigration paranoias for an ...
