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  • On the road in Addis Ababa, where climate change is expected to have multiple challenging impacts. Credit: alvise forcellini.
    ClimateEthiopia

    How Addis Ababa is set to get hotter, wetter, drier, and bigger

    By Abay Yimere
    September 14, 2023
    A new study shows how climate change will lead to more heatwaves and severe flooding in Ethiopia’s capital, one of Africa’s fastest-growing cities. Addis ...
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    January Makamba and Tanzania’s return from self-isolation

    By Emmanuel John
    September 7, 2023
    What does January Makamba’s appointment to Tanzania’s foreign docket add to President Hassan’s expanding diplomatic chessboard? The late President John Magufuli’s isolationism harmed Tanzania’s ...
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  • PoliticsSomaliaTop story

    Somalia: State-building as the elite’s perverse incentive

    By Najib Ahmed
    September 4, 2023
    Facing growing allegations of corruption and nepotism, can the Hassan Sheikh administration win the war against Al Shabaab? Prompting widespread ridicule across the world ...
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  • OpedSomaliaTop story

    Understanding the local context is key to addressing fragility in Somalia

    By Liban Obsiye
    August 31, 2023
    No longer a vision of the failed state of a decade ago, for Somalia the journey from fragility to sustainability is long, tough and ...
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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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  • Frontline communities, Indigenous groups and climate activists say no to false solutions at COP27. Credit: Madeleine Race, Friends of the Earth International.
    ClimateKenyaTop story

    The Africa Climate Summit must dare speak the unspeakable

    By Lorraine Chiponda
    August 23, 2023
    Fossil fuels, by far the biggest source of emissions, have brought much harm and few benefits to Africa. Yet climate agreements barely mention them. ...
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  • Kenya's President William Ruto, who is calling for a change of narrative at the Africa Climate Summit, on a visit to South Korea. Credit: KOCIS/Jeon Han.
    ClimateKenyaTop story

    Africa Climate Summit: Kenya’s green growth pitch sparks justice concerns

    By Chloé Farand
    August 21, 2023
    Outcry over McKinsey’s role and unease with Ruto’s focus on finance raises questions as to whether the summit will truly be “by Africans for ...
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    Uganda’s boda bodas: Half a century of getting to places, madly

    By Tom Courtright
    August 20, 2023
    50-odd years ago, Ali Mayende’s innovation in the border town of Busia sparked a revolution that has become the lifeblood of East African public ...
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  • Kenya fog harvesting. Credit: David Njagi.
    ClimateKenyaSocietyTop story

    Kenyans look to the foggy heavens for water amid state neglect

    By David Njagi
    August 11, 2023
    With millions lacking decent access to water, growing numbers are using cheap innovations like fog harvesting to take it straight from the air. Each ...
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  • Conflict & CrisisEditor's PicksEthiopiaPolitics

    How years of tension in Amhara boiled to the surface

    By Hone Mandefro
    August 4, 2023
    Deepening suspicions that Abiy was plotting against the Amhara drove the Fano rebellion against Addis Ababa. With the declaration of the state of emergency ...
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