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  • Spying a port through the trees in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, the site of one of Africa's biggest oil and gas projects. Credit: Sigrid Ekman.
    ClimateEditor's PicksMozambiquePolitics

    The return to Cabo Delgado: Gas, war, and the emergence of Total Land

    By João Feijó
    May 9, 2023
    While TotalEnergies remains coy about restarting the $20bn gas project, Mozambicans are coming home in the conspicuous absence of the state. In recent months, ...
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    “They wish we didn’t exist”: Tanzania school goers speak of transport woes

    By Mweha Msemo
    May 4, 2023
    In the daily sharp-elbowed jostle to board daladalas, school students find themselves at the back of the queue. Every weekday morning, Basilisa Isaka Ishengoma, ...
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    Lines through the lake: Why the Congo-Rwanda border can’t be redrawn

    By Gillian Mathys
    May 2, 2023
    Long-standing cultural affinities of Rwandophones in the Great Lakes may appear to bolster Kigali’s historical claims to parts of eastern Congo, but it’s more ...
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    Why is Botswana rethinking its deal with De Beers?

    By Marisa Lourenço
    April 25, 2023
    Christened ‘Debswana’, its 50-year-old mining pact with De Beers is showing signs of strain – for some rather unexpected reasons. When on 12 February ...
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    Is the World Bank really going green?

    By Heike Mainhardt
    April 25, 2023
    The Bank invests billions in fossil fuels, including through various opaque channels. Unless this changes, its public soul-searching will count for little. The World ...
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    Why ZANU-PF still can’t dance to chimurenga music

    By Mwai Daka
    April 19, 2023
    ZANU-PF’s aversion to protest music only confirms the lyrical power of a line of artists from Marley and Mapfumo to Winky D.  Prominent Zimbabwean ...
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    Burundi’s growing femicide problem

    By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse
    April 4, 2023
    As authorities turn a blind eye to the growing cases of violence and spousal murder, women’s rights activist are increasingly vocal. The burial of ...
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    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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    ClimateEditor's PicksPoliticsUganda

    “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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  • Editor's PicksPoliticsUganda

    Unpacking the geopolitics of Uganda’s anti-gay bill

    By Kristof Titeca
    March 10, 2023
    As the Church rages against Canterbury, Museveni’s authoritarian regime might be the last guarantor of sexual minority rights. On 1 March, 2023 the Ugandan ...
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