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Concerns: Local residents gather to voice their opposition to the construction of the Polihali Dam in Lesotho, as part of the second phase of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
ACCOUNTABILITY COUNSEL

‘Our Land, Our Lives’: Lesotho villagers challenge Gauteng water scheme

Lesotho villagers allege unsafe conditions and no accountability in the scheme to supply Gauteng

  • Sheree Bega
8 min read
The second phase of the Lesotho Highlands must not repeat the mistakes of the first phase in which women were displaced and disempowered. Photo: File
AFDB

Lesotho Highlands Water Project must work with women, not against them

Public banks – Development Bank of Southern Africa, African Development Bank and the New Development Bank – and the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority render women invisible…

  • Mosa Letsie & Marianne Buenaventura Goldman
5 min read
The African Development Bank’s shareholders must decide whether the mandate will expand to crowd in private finance, derisk green investment and underwriter regional public goods, or retreat to classical project lending.
AFDB

African Development Bank at 60: Time to reclaim the zeal of its visionary reformers

The bank’s shareholders, African and non-African alike, must decide whether the mandate will expand to crowd in private finance, derisk green investment and underwriter regional…

  • Obi Ezekwesili, Kalidou Gadio & Agnes Kalibata
5 min read
El Niño is expected to cause a loss of rainfall
AFDB

Adaptation should be central to climate crisis talks. Here’s why

Calls intensify to focus on helping high-risk communities adjust to climate change

  • Tunicia Phillips
7 min read