Addressing inequality must include a focus on land redistribution

At the UN General Assembly last week, a group of world-renown economists together with the governments of South Africa, Brazil, Norway and Spain demanded that inequality be taken seriously with the…

Zimbabwe braces itself for a ‘super’ El Niño

The outlook is dire. Zimbabwe, along with the rest of southern Africa, could be facing a very serious drought, even if unseasonal rain has been falling recently in some parts of the country. The El…

‘They raped our country’: documentary follows Kenyans’ fight for restitution over stolen land

Multinational tea companies still occupy ancestral highlands of communities displaced during British colonial era

Namibia: ’Land bill risks silencing conservancies’

%%title%% %%sep%% %%primary_category%% %%sep%% %%sitename%% %%sep%% National Alliance for Conservancies and Community Forests chairperson Thomas Muronga says the proposed land bill’s removal of conservancy representatives from communal land boards could leave conservancies voiceless.

Amnesty accuses M23 of abuses amounting to war crimes at Congo mines

Conflict coltan, AI demand and the risk of runaway harm

Conflict coltan from DRC is already finding its way into electronic devices, and accelerated AI and data centre demand could add pressure to creaking regulation

Africa gets only 23% of the climate finance it needs – and pays too much for it

Climate finance should not be separated from development funding.

The Horn of Africa’s Age of Permanent Conflict

Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement, signed in 2005, seemed to vindicate a model for how wars might end in the Horn of Africa. Under the auspices of the African Union, led by hegemonic Ethiopia and backed by the United States, it wrangled the government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army to the table with the promise of redistributing oil rents, and set the pathway for southern Sudan’s eventual secession in 2011. It had many faults, not least the failure to incorporate Darfurian groups and others, but it nevertheless held. It depended, however, on a coherent external coalition of powers with sufficient […]

Ducking disaster — what storm-battered Madagascar teaches us about conservation resilience

Madagascar is often reduced to headlines of disaster as cyclones intensify and ecosystems come under pressure. But that is only part of the story. From a drained lake that nearly wiped out an endemic …

Twenty-five years after land reform in Zimbabwe: a short documentary on lessons learned

What have we learned from our study, 25 years after land reform in Zimbabwe? Drawing on the research that we have been doing since the early 2000s, we wanted to highlight some of the key findings. …