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Sipho Kings is a former acting editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian
FROM THE ARCHIVES | Elections 2014: No free lunch in Bekkersdal but try the breakfast buffet
Each party has laid on a spread of piping hot coffee and thick chunks of bread at their tables, luring in voters.
Africa is finally at the climate negotiations table
Climate negotiations have often excluded Africa. But in the past year, negotiators from the continent have started to change the exclusionary structures
Libya floods: There will be many, many more Dernas
As the world fails to contain greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, climate catastrophes will increase, exacerbated by poor governance
Amazing Africans of the year show world how to achieve true greatness
Here are some of the people who made it in worlds as diverse as entertainment, sport and politics — and made a difference on the continent
Pay up or shut up, say African states
In Egypt, African countries will demand recompense for the pollution of the richest countries, who will try to change the topic
Electricity for all in Africa in eight years a possibility but ‘formidable’ task
The Africa Energy Outlook 2022 report charts how the continent can get electricity to everyone by 2030.
Climate crisis in West Africa will get worse
Sea levels are rising, rainfall is unpredictable, soaring temperatures make life unbearable and people in cities will be hardest hit
Climate change: Reasons to be hopeful
The climate crisis will hit Africa hard. The Covid-19 crisis has shown that African states can’t rely on the Global North to do the right thing. Nevertheless, there are signs…
The Continent’s Africans of the Year: Vanessa Nakate
The activist who forced her way onto front pages: Initially cropped out and sidelined, Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has now become an essential voice for Africa on the…
Omicron variant: The West finds yet another reason to keep Africans out
Thanks to the Omicron variant, it is harder than ever for Africans to travel – even though public health experts say the restrictions make no sense
Covid may collapse climate talks
When crises strike then selfishness prevails, as Britain has done with its vaccine ‘red’ travel list
Coal gets the cold shoulder as coal power fleets on course to be 56% smaller than expected
Only Gambia has a plan that, if everyone acted the same way, would see global heating kept to below 1.5°C.
Petro states: What happens when 30% of your national budget disappears in a decade?
As the demand for oil shrinks and prices collapse, Africa’s petro states — the likes of Angola, Nigeria, Egypt and Equatorial Guinea — will be left with massive holes in their…
A Landie icon is born
Replacing one of the most-loved cars in history, the new Defender pulls off the near impossible task of doing almost everything better
‘We are painstakingly putting things right’ — Ramaphosa
Talking to the media, President Cyril Ramaphosa said he too was frustrated by the slow pace of justice around corruption, but that ‘the change that we have all wanted to see is…