Yearly Archives: 2024
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Panel Discussion: War in Gaza as a Discourse on Colonialism (event video)
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South Africa’s energy crisis is driving a “solar boom”, but there’s a downside
The privately-led quintupling of rooftop solar in 2 years takes some pressure off the grid but, without planning, risks deepening energy apartheid. At the tick of ... -
TotalEnergies at 100: A legacy of destruction in Africa
Displacements, environmental damage, and CO2 emissions from projects in Mozambique and Uganda are just the latest chapter in a long story. Today, 28 March 2024, marks ... -
When is a policy not a policy? The curious case of the hollow JET-P
If Just Energy Transition Partnerships don’t serve the interests of developing countries or the West, whose purposes do they serve? If something looks like a duck ... -
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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. Farmers in Malawi are ... -
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. Launched early last year, the African ... -
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. DOUNIA MAHLOULY: The ...
