Yearly Archives: 2024
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“We’re not quite there yet”: IPCC chair talks South representation and more
In an exclusive interview, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change discusses the ways forward for the next set of reports. The Intergovernmental Panel ... -
Land Squeeze: The hidden battle for Africa’s soils
Land grabbing is not just back with a vengeance. It is taking on new guises such as carbon offsets, green hydrogen schemes, and other “green grabs”. ... -
In Abiy’s Ethiopia, 200 journalists have been arrested since 2019
The Nobel laureate won plaudits early on for releasing imprisoned journalists. Today, his government depicts journalists as spies and traitors, and is accused of arresting, harassing ... -
In search of a polling station without a long, winding queue in mid-afternoon Jozi
In Soweto, they voted early; by mid-afternoon, most polling stations were deserted. Not so elsewhere in southern Johannesburg where middle-class, middle-aged voters bet on empty polling ... -
“All it takes is one corrupt official”: Huge monkey seizure reveals DRC trafficking ring
One of the biggest ever illegal animals shipments in Africa involved senior conservation officials, suggest documents seen by African Arguments. Top officials from the Democratic Republic ... -
Nigeria: One year later, Tinubu struggles with the economic question
Digging the country out of the hole it fell into during the Buhari years required an ingenuity never made available under Tinubu’s economic shock treatment programme. ... -
“After the dam, nothing is good”: How Ethiopia’s mega project devastated centuries of survival strategies
Until recently, indigenous groups in the Omo Valley planted crops, foraged, hunted, fished, herded animals, and shared food. Now they face starvation. Over thousands of seasons ... -
‘2024 is our 1994!’: A South African election travelogue
Almost two-thirds of the current electorate could not have voted in the first all-race elections in 1994. After the apathy of the past 15 years, why ... -
Overloaded? Hope and Scepticism around the Tumaini Peace Initiative for South Sudan
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Sudan: The violence is a symptom of a profound collective failure
The ongoing conflict is an existential threat to the very idea of Sudan, not to be solved by negotiations featuring the usual suspects working on the ...
