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Beyond clean tech extractivism: African countries must embrace multiple energy sources, including natural gas

In the second of two articles, the Gates Foundation’s Obinna Onyekwena argues that for Africa, the “clean energy transition” brings both heavy human costs and new forms of dependency. Countries like Nigeria must pursue a more pragmatic approach, anchored in gas as a strategic bridge fuel, to drive industrialization, reduce energy poverty, and avoid replicating colonial patterns of technology dependency. Onyekwena writes in his personal capacity.

Opinion July 30, 2025

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Climate facades and African awakening: unmasking geopolitical double standards in energy policy

African policymakers must confront the reality that energy transition models exported from Europe and...

Opinion July 28, 2025

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It is time to fix the broken system that fuels rising inequality

High debt burdens, tax abuse and aid cuts are threatening the future of billions of people. Ahead of...

Opinion June 26, 2025

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What the bees are telling us

Bees are speaking to us - not with sound, but through their presence, their absence, and their steady...

Opinion May 20, 2025

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The siege of Gaza and the rise of a militarized neoliberal relief architecture

Following a two-month-long Israeli blockage of relief from entering Gaza, the new private initiative...

Opinion May 19, 2025

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A new compact for global health: rebalancing power between African governments and donors

The closure of USAID and other aid cuts are not anomalies to be fixed, but symptoms of a model that has...

Opinion May 14, 2025

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The climate crisis is coming to our plates. Here’s how we need to support farmers

Smallholder farmers - many of them women - grow most of the food consumed in South Asia and sub-Saharan...

Opinion April 29, 2025

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Rethinking aid: A call for genuine transformation in the development paradigm

Aid in the Global South - and in Africa, in particular - has at times functioned as a mechanism of control,...

Opinion April 22, 2025

Africa without foreign aid for health: Free at last?

The geopolitical vandalism of Trump II could have the unintended consequence of prompting low and middle-income...

Opinion February 25, 2025

Op-ed comment: IMPACT-se attacks UNWRA’s role in education, praises Sweden for defunding agency

In an opinion article by two scholars, Jo Kelcy and Anne Irfan, published in Development Today on January...

Opinion February 11, 2025

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