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Interview with Sierra Leone’s Climate Minister: “1.5C? We’re already there”
Jiwoh Abulai, Environment and Climate Change Minister of Sierra Leone talks 30×30, land rights, carbon credits, climate finance, and more. You’ve recently come out ... -
Why women struggle to take climate cases to court and how to correct it
A study in Nigeria and South Africa suggests three key ways women’s access to climate justice can be enhanced. Across domestic courts in Africa, ... -
Senegal’s democracy is in peril
The looming danger of democratic collapse is a challenge to friends of Senegal and democracy to do better. The sudden actions by Senegal’s president ... -
Mali: Defiant and alone, will the junta defeat the jihadis?
Revolting against the French, expelling a UN force and walking out of ECOWAS, the Assimi Goita junta is taking out its frustrations with the ... -
The silence of the Obidients
With the Tinubu government’s IMF-prescribed shock therapy convulsing the economy almost a year after the botched presidential election they believe cost Peter Obi victory, ... -
Incomplete Memories, Distorted Histories: The loud silence around Africa’s complicity in the slave trade
When will we have an honest conversation about Africa’s role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade? A re-enactment of a slave raid at the opening ... -
Could Joseph Boakai do a Biden in Liberia’s run-off election?
At 78, Boakai is the veteran bridesmaid of Liberian politics; like his American counterpart, he runs against a populist megastar with a comical grasp ... -
Africans, slavery and reparations: Why Nana Akufo-Addo’s claims are deeply flawed
While the Ghanaian president made bold claims for reparations to African states, the African elite’s long silence about its role in the slave trade ... -
Why Liberia’s President Weah must go (democratically)
Liberia’s disaffected citizens are more than justified in hoping that the 10 October election brings change. If a blind man threatens to stone you, ... -
Young people are the real peacekeepers in Liberia
A generation with no memory of the civil war will be voting in October – despite their abiding loss of faith in Liberia’s politicians. ...
