
Green hydrogen, old colonialism
The EU’s hydrogen push in North Africa is sold as climate progress, but beneath the green gloss lies a familiar story of extraction, debt, and dispossession.
The EU’s hydrogen push in North Africa is sold as climate progress, but beneath the green gloss lies a familiar story of extraction, debt, and dispossession.
Grassroots activists and marine scientists in Algeria are building artificial reefs to restore biodiversity and sustain fishing communities, but scaling up requires more than passion—it needs institutional support and political will.
Shell's so-called divestment from Nigeria’s Niger Delta is a calculated move to evade accountability, leaving behind both environmental and economic devastation.
At Africa Energy Week, the language of resource sovereignty disguised a new form of climate denial that appropriates progressive rhetoric in service of fossil fuel companies.
South Africa’s pivot to electricity markets will be socially regressive, whether green or not.
A proposed green hydrogen project in Tunisia prioritizes European energy needs over local sovereignty.
Days before mass protests broke out across Kenya, the national government enacted a mass, unjustified forced removal campaign across Nairobi.
Since independence, Botswana has relied on its natural resources. But to secure its future, it needs to turn to its cultural heritage too.
For some years now, the people of Eastlands in Nairobi have been remaking the city in their own image of green development.
With regional and global powers keen to take advantage of the DRC’s mineral wealth, it is hard to see how things can get better for the country in the short and medium term.
Although little evidence suggests a direct link between climate change and mass migration, Europe is using “climate migration” to militarize its borders.
Load-shedding, deepening privatization, and unaffordable electricity makes it difficult to imagine a pivot away from the neoliberal approach to South Africa’s climate crisis.
A new book shows how Europe is using the energy transition to exploit and under-develop the Arab world.
The marketization of climate action, epitomized by Kenyan president William Ruto, allows the super-rich to buy their safety while the rest of us are left behind.
Kenyan president William Ruto has reinvented himself as Africa's climate champion. But, his policy contradictions reveal that this is just his latest hustle
In South Africa, white climate groups are detached from broader struggles for economic justice and equality.
In the context of climate apartheid, a new scramble for resources, and debt crises, the Global South must find another way to be human.
Small scale farmers in Tunisia are caught between international actors and a domestic policy that protects corporations.
Held in Nairobi this month, the inaugural Africa Climate Summit is an important step for the continent’s response to climate change. Still, the disasters in Libya and Morocco underscore that rhetoric and declarations are not enough.
The city of Gqeberha in South Africa is an example of how water is increasingly becoming a commodified resource, benefiting the powerful and depriving everyone else.