Does the Gates Foundation do more harm than good?
When you have as much money as the Gates Foundation, you can buy your way into some pretty powerful places.
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The land grabs in Africa you don’t hear about
There's little doubt that Chinese and Arab interests are procuring land in Africa, but a careful review of the evidence suggests also point to local buyers.
We will send an insult to your mum
The Mathare Social Justice Center's activists work to shake off the menacing insults of forced evictions, tenure insecurity, police violence and increasing precarity.
The ‘Brazil of Africa’
That's not a compliment. It is about how development institutions are financing land grabs in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Germany’s new scramble for Africa?
Germany’s military shift represents the country’s belated entry into a “colonial present.“