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Climate

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Bringing you coverage of climate issues from across Africa. From energy to activism, agriculture to culture, future visions to climate financing, we seek to report, investigate, illuminate, and analyse.

  • Whether it meant to or not, the IPCC is on a collision course with the capitalist class.
    ClimateEconomyTop story

    The loud part the IPCC said quietly

    By Drew Pendergrass
    March 21, 2023
    You can’t replace fossil fuels with renewables like swapping out a battery. The Global North will also have to drastically reduce its energy use. ...
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  • The scene from the city of Quelimane in Mozambique after Cyclone Freddy struck on 11 March. Credit: UNICEF.
    ClimateMozambiqueTop story

    “Nobody imagined it would be so intense”: Mozambique after Freddy

    By Alexandre Nhampossa
    March 20, 2023
    While Mozambicans count the cost after the deadly Cyclone Freddy, people in Beira continue to wait for support four years after Idai. Tropical Cyclone ...
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  • Flooding from Cyclone Freddy in Morombe, Madagascar. Credit: Marie Tatiane Rasoanirina
    ClimateMadagascarTop story

    Freddy: Madagascar’s 8th cyclone in 13 months compounds climate crises

    By Velomahanina Razakamaharavo, Lalatiana Rakotondranaivo & Marc Lanteigne
    March 20, 2023
    Though it escaped the worst impacts of Freddy, it hit as Madagascar was still rebuilding from a devastating cyclone in January and six in ...
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  • Bob Barigye, an enviromental activist, in the capital, Kampala. Photo by John Okot.
    ClimatePoliticsTop storyUganda

    “Enemies of the state”: Uganda targets climate activists in quiet crackdown

    By John Okot
    March 16, 2023
    Activists say the government is using arrests and psychological torture to avoid signs of abuse that could lead to bad publicity for EACOP investors. ...
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  • The legal case against Tilenga and EACOP in France relied on global solidarities and coalitions. Credit: Erik McGregor.
    ClimateEastTop story

    Why France EACOP setback might embolden, not discourage, activists

    By Mark Odaga
    March 14, 2023
    Though the legal claim against TotalEnergies was dismissed on technicalities, it set some bold precedents.  On 28 February, a French court declared an appeal ...
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  • The AfDB African Emergency Food Production Facility is centred on expanding an industrial model of agriculture centred on monocropping and use of chemical fertilisers. Credit: CIMMYT/ Peter Lowe.
    ClimateTop story

    Why’s the AfDB siding with the Agrochemical Industrial Complex?

    By Frédéric Mousseau & Andy Currier
    March 10, 2023
    Against the wishes of hundreds of millions of farmers, the bank is backing a model that can push economic dependence, soil depletion and pollution. ...
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  • Cobalt Red. Miners washing copper ore in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Credit: Fairphone.
    ClimateCongo-KinshasaTop story

    Who wants to hear about White Saviourism gone wrong?

    By Ben Radley
    March 8, 2023
    A new book on the Congo recycles stereotypes of Africa as a wasteland in need of saving in all its promo. It’s been rapturously ...
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  • An ecosocial manifesto. Climate activists from the Global South protest outside COP27 in Egypt in 2022. Credit: Friends of the Earth International.
    Climate

    A manifesto for an ecosocial energy transition from the South

    By Various co-signatories
    March 3, 2023
    Movements from the Global South critique the existing neocolonial energy model and offer a just alternative. An appeal to leaders, institutions, and our brothers ...
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  • From 17-19, Addis Ababa welcomed heads of state and government of the African Union (AU) to talk about myriad challenges, including climate. Credit: Paul Kagame.
    ClimateTop story

    “Africanise or perish!” Climate remains high on AU agenda

    By Olivia Rumble & Andrew Gilder
    March 2, 2023
    From supporting Barbados’ plan to transform global climate finance, to pursuing G20 membership, climate was a key issue at the recent summit. From 17- ...
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  • A street in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where Africa's first chief heat officer is based. Credit: bobthemagicdragon.
    ClimateSierra Leone

    Africa has its first chief heat officer. Five things should be on her agenda

    By Olumuyiwa Adegun
    February 24, 2023
    Freetown’s heat officer can set an example to Africa and the world as temperatures and risks rise. Eugenia Kargbo has an unusual job: she ...
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