Debating Ideas
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Same Cocoa Crash, Opposite Answers: what Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire Reveal about Power in Global Trade
The world’s two biggest cocoa producers faced the same price collapse this year and made opposite choices. The reason is not economics alone. It ... -
The Algiers-Abu Dhabi Rupture: Redefining the Geopolitical Chessboard of the Sahel
The dramatic decision by Algeria on September 10 to formally sever diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates may have caught casual observers by ... -
What African Elections Can Learn from the BOORANA GADAA SYSTEM
A Democracy Older Than the Ballot Box Every election season, much of East Africa braces itself. Incumbents amend constitutions to erase term limits, and ... -
Beyond Load Shedding: How South Africa’s Electricity Crisis Scarred Industry
South Africa’s electricity system has staged a remarkable recovery. On 4 September 2026, Eskom reported that the country had gone 476 consecutive days without ... -
Capacity Substitution: How Tunisia’s Problems Became Someone Else’s Priorities
In the summer of 2023, a young man from Gafsa tried to cross the Mediterranean on a small boat. He did not make it. ... -
What Washington Agreed to Last Month
Somaliland’s president spent two weeks in Washington this month offering almost everything he has. Access to the port at Berbera. Access to the territory’s ... -
African Newsrooms Can No Longer Delay Creating the Conditions for Women to Stay
When one Black South African journalist decided to leave the profession after only four years, she did not walk away because she had stopped ... -
Not Energy, But Power: why Geothermal Energy Benefits Everyone in Iceland but not Kenya
This article draws on in-person interviews at Mt Suswa, Olkaria, and Menengai with Coalition for Human Rights in Development (CHRD) members and partners directly ... -
The Salvador Pass: How a Nameless Desert Gap Became a Battleground for Libya’s Warlords
A failed prisoner exchange in Niger has revealed a complex network of Libyan, Nigerien, Chadian, and Russian interests converging on one of the Sahara’s ... -
Cybersecurity is the Infrastructure Africa is Forgetting to Build
In June 2024, a ransomware attack on South Africa’s National Health Laboratory Service rendered patient records inaccessible, disrupted diagnostics and forced hospitals to cancel ...
