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South Africa’s big rooftops could power 6 million homes: how to make it happen
24th June 2025 South Africa has many factories, warehouses, schools and hospitals – big buildings with large rooftop spaces. In such a sunny country, these flat... →
Which African countries are flourishing? Scientists have a new way of measuring well-being
24th June 2025 What does it mean to live a good life? Psychologists and social scientists have been focusing on a new idea called flourishing – a sense of... →
This is a 1990 moment – Africa must seize it
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 24th June 2025 As the world order is being reshaped, Africa must make its voice heard and defend its interests with unity and resolve. In July 1990, nearly 35... →
One year on: South Africa’s coalition government boosted optimism, but will it last?
23rd June 2025 For the first time since the end of apartheid in 1994, the ruling African National Congress lost its parliamentary majority in 2024. After 30 years... →
Violent extremism erodes local climate resilience in the Sahel
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 23rd June 2025 Jihadist groups and militarised counter-terrorism responses have weakened traditional approaches to resolving climate disputes. The Sahel is one of... →
African refugees bear the brunt of shifting global politics
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 23rd June 2025 On World Refugee Day, displaced Africans face the worst conditions yet as conflict and disasters increase, aid plummets and borders tighten. The... →
Opinion: Africa’s G20 moment – a moral call for justice and global solidarity 
20th June 2025 In this opinion article, Bishop Thulani Mbuyisa, the chairperson of the Justice and Peace Commission of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’... →
Replacement-equivalent model revisited
By: Saliem Fakir 20th June 2025 This article's aim is to revisit the concept of replacement equivalent, which is still a work in progress, concerning oil and gas economies in... →
Procurement poser
By: Terence Creamer 20th June 2025 Few would argue that South Africa’s procurement of electricity generation capacity from independent power producers (IPPs) is one of the country’s... →
Africa’s space race: What satellite ambitions reveal about development priorities
By: In On Africa IOA 19th June 2025 Analysis in brief: African nations are deploying space satellites in record numbers, thanks to inexpensive nanotechnology. Small but sophisticated,... →
