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600-million Africans don’t have electricity – the green energy transition must start with them
28th January 2025 The world is fast transitioning towards renewable energy systems. But in many African countries, this transition is not solving historical... →
Trump attacks global minimum tax
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 28th January 2025 President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the OECD minimum 15% global tax deal could hurt Africa. Amid Trump’s blizzard of executive orders fired... →
How Africa can benefit from the Reversal in America’s Approach to Electric Vehicle Mandates
28th January 2025 The 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump on his inauguration day issued Presidential Orders that include “unleashing American... →
DRC has created a reserve force to fight the M23 – why this may backfire
27th January 2025 After nearly three decades of warfare, armed conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) seems only to intensify. The Rwanda-backed... →
Political assassinations, police violence and lack of press freedom: 3 barriers to peace in Mozambique
27th January 2025 Mozambique’s parliament and its new president, Daniel Chapo, were sworn in in mid-January 2025 after a tumultuous post-election period of protests,... →
No, ‘Detty December’ remittances in Nigeria did not equal 4% of the country’s GDP, as claimed by former governor
By: Africa Check 27th January 2025 The former governor of Nigeria's Lagos state Babatunde Raji Fashola was among the dignitaries who addressed new graduates of the University of... →
Africa’s nuclear energy future
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 24th January 2025 A rapid increase in demand may leave Africa no choice but to make a substantial investment in nuclear energy. In a world that must urgently move... →
Johannesburg Water Crisis Reveals Shortfalls in Delivering on Socio-Economic Rights
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 24th January 2025 Municipalities have been continuously constrained by inadequate human resources, lack of skills, scarce finances, years of neglect and corruption.... →
Perfect storm?
By: Terence Creamer 24th January 2025 There is every reason to expect that 2025 will be a year of disruption. It’s an expectation informed largely by the reality of widespread national... →
Informal mining in South Africa is here to stay. Police brutality won’t end it – here’s what will
23rd January 2025 In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in South Africa. They had... →
