Geoff Hill

China dominant in Djibouti port spat

Africa Geoff Hill - 2 Mar 2018

There are only two sea routes linking Europe with East Africa and much of Asia. Either you sail around the Cape of Good Hope or through the Suez Canal

Africa braces for high-stakes Davos meet

Africa Geoff Hill - 17 Jan 2018

Trump will be the star at Davos. Love or hate him, he's likely to be the only head of state whose speech will be broadcast on all the news channels

Washington seeks out like minds on climate change

Article Geoff Hill - 17 Nov 2017

Washington has spent the week seeking out like minds at a climate-change conference that ended last night in Germany.

Where to begin: Trump, the Paris Agreement and Africa’s poverty

Africa Geoff Hill - 6 Jun 2017

Countries like the USA are expected to cut emissions now, while China can go on polluting until 2030, then trim its footprint

Wintertime and the livin’ is easy

Article Geoff Hill - 15 Dec 2016

Britain, Europe and the US are snuggling up to their carbon-emitting coal fires

Curbing ‘big men’ may stem exodus

Africa Geoff Hill - 4 Nov 2016

One of the reasons for Francophone Africa’s mass migration to France is leaders who refuse to go.

There’s a crisis in our oceans, illegal fishing dwarfs ivory and rhino horn poaching

Article Geoff Hill - 18 Jul 2016

France, SA and Mozambique will give trawlers in the Mozambique Channel a harder time, but can they control the $23bn a year industry?

Buhari under siege on all fronts, only a year into his presidency

Africa Geoff Hill - 17 Jun 2016

Economic woes and new calls for Biafran independence may signal the start of trouble in the country.

Nigeria’s president is beset by a civil war threat, a terror group and an economic crisis

Africa Geoff Hill - 16 Jun 2016

The West is riding on the hope that the Nigerian leader will defeat Boko Haram and end corruption.

After Ebola, US spreads its bets over Africa

Article Geoff Hill - 7 Jun 2016

The superpower may expand its bootprint across the continent but it was the Ebola outbreak that sparked this latest move in its ‘war on terror’.

The double standards of African diplomacy

Analysis Geoff Hill - 15 Apr 2016

While the West and other observers are quick to condemn Robert Mugabe, they just as easily ignore the egregious abuses of power elsewhere.

Allies silent on Djibouti human rights abuses

Africa Geoff Hill - 7 Jan 2016

Western nations won't intervene lest they upset a strategic partnership or usher in another despot.

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Crypto and blockchain: it’s time to put the phenomenon vs fad debate to bed

Powerships to generate electricity at an affordable cost

Creating broader value through Spending Transparency at the NLC

Future-proof climate commitments: is South Africa ambitious enough?

WATCH HERE: Gauteng Legislature discusses the Municipal Systems Amendment Bill

KIC donates fridges to worthy causes

E-Class Coupé and Cabriolet get even more desirable

More health research based on data from Africa will benefit the continent and the world