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  • Motorcycle tax operators, or boda boda drivers, also benefit from the charcoal trade by transporting it. Credit: John Okot.
    ClimateEconomyEditor's PicksUganda

    “Why do they punish us?” Uganda charcoal ban ignites transition debate

    By John Okot
    October 3, 2023
    While welcomed in principle, the abrupt charcoal ban has left both traders and buyers unsure of where to turn. Earlier this year, Hamidu Ssenyondo, ...
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  • AlgeriaMININGTop story

    A mine in the middle of paradise

    By Ilhem Rachidi
    September 9, 2023
    The Tebboune government is brutally suppressing any protest against a lead-and-zinc mine being built in a RAMSAR protected area. The region surrounding the Soummam ...
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  • Fish traders by the shores of Lake Victoria. Credit: WorldFish.
    ClimateEconomyTanzania

    “Rare, expensive”: Fish eating by Lake Victoria plunges amid climate change

    By Winfrith Hikloch Ogola
    August 24, 2023
    90% of people along the lake’s shores in Tanzania say they ate fish four times per month ten years ago, compared to just 4% ...
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  • Carbon markets and offsetting schemes are skyrocketing in Africa. Credit: Walker Gawande.
    ClimateEconomyEditor's Picks

    Revealed: Big conservation NGOs are majority governed by finance figures

    By James Wan
    August 23, 2023
    Conservationists express alarm that finance execs dominate the boards of four powerful NGOs, especially as controversial carbon markets skyrocket. New analysis has revealed that ...
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  • Africa's sustainable industrialisation. A factory producing bricks in Madagascar. Credit: Francesco Veronesi.
    ClimateEconomyTop story

    Africa’s unique path to sustainable industrialisation

    By Carlos Lopes
    August 17, 2023
    As a latecomer to industrialisation, the continent faces some unprecedented challenges as well as opportunities. Economists have long hailed industrialisation as a catalyst for ...
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  • CameroonEconomyNigeriaTop story

    How Nigeria’s fuel subsidy shock jolted Cameroon’s economy

    By Francis Tim Mbom
    July 19, 2023
    In Cameroon, the unintended consequences of Nigeria’s fuel subsidy withdrawal ripple across the beleaguered Anglophone region.  On the night of 29 May, 2019, the ...
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  • Civil society groups at COP27 demand action on Loss and Damage. Credit: Oliver Kornblihtt / Mídia NINJA.
    ClimateEconomyTop story

    Who, what, where? The Loss and Damage Fund’s unresolved questions

    By Olivia Rumble & Andrew Gilder
    July 5, 2023
    Since the breakthrough agreement at COP27, developed and developing countries have remained at odds on key details. At last year’s COP27 climate talks, governments ...
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  • Daniel Mminele, head of the Presidential Climate Finance Task Team, hosts a media briefing on South Africa's Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) in 2022. Credit: GCIS.
    ClimateEconomyTop story

    Africa must own the idea of the “just transition”

    By Laura Becerra & Saliem Fakir
    July 4, 2023
    There’s no one-size-fits-all with sustainable economies. A just transition on the continent will look very different to one in the Global North. While the ...
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  • EconomyEditor's PicksMadagascarPolitics

    How Madagascar’s new foreign investment law will perpetuate the colonial dispossession of the people

    By Velomahanina Razakamaharavo & Lalatiana Rakotondranaivo
    June 16, 2023
    The new law gives foreign investors equal rights to land as ordinary Malagasy, some who are still demanding the return of  ancestral lands seized ...
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  • Fmr president Muhammadu Buhari inaugurates the Dangote Refinery. Photo credit: Dangote Industries
    EconomyNigeriaTop story

    Will Dangote’s refinery turn Nigeria’s expensive oil habit into a blessing?

    By Promise Eze
    June 15, 2023
    The opening of the Refinery is the biggest good news story in decades. Is there reason to be nervous about another Dangote monopoly? On ...
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