Vol 65 No 7 | AFRICAUNITED NATIONSCLIMATE CHANGE Anger as Geneva wins Fund fight 28th March 2024 African officials and climate activists want to reverse the decision to host the Loss and Damage advisory network in Geneva instead of Nairobi. They met in Lilongwe, Malawi,...
Vol 66 No 19 | ETHIOPIAAFRICACLIMATE CHANGE Addis summit pushes continent’s green industry ambition 19th September 2025 With climate finance at a premium, delegates focused on bankable projects, trading and refining critical minerals and nature-based initiatives Alongside the nationalist tub-thumping, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was making a serious point about climate and energy policy when he invited a group of international leaders for...
Vol 65 No 23 | CLIMATE CHANGE High stakes but low ambitions at Baku’s geopolitical climate summit 13th November 2024 Africa’s bargaining chips at COP29 are ‘green ores’, and trading its forests, grasslands and shorelines as carbon sinks After a year of weather disasters and the hottest average temperatures on record, cash will dominate negotiations at the UN Conference of the Parties (COP29) climate summit from...
Vol 63 No 10 | TOGOSPECIAL REPORT SPECIAL REPORT: How Vincent Bolloré came to dominate business in Togo – using money, media and merchandise 5th May 2022 Africa Confidential presents a Special Report on the Breton tycoon’s growing influence in Africa. Far from quitting the continent, Vincent Bolloré’s business and political interests in Africa are deepening – even as he faces trial in Paris for grand corruption in league with two West African leaders. By Andrew Weir and Nicolas Vescovacci Billionaire Vincent Bolloré, who has built up monopoly control over some of the biggest container terminals in Africa, is heading back to the French courts with two of... READ FOR FREE
Vol 64 No 21 | CLIMATE CHANGESPECIAL REPORT Radical climate finance strategies go mainstream 13th October 2023 Leaders of the IMF and World Bank back carbon taxes and a plan to end fossil fuel subsidies | Special Report by Tim Concannon One of the most significant moments of the finance meetings in Marrakech on 9-15 October was the call by World Bank President Ajay Banga to open discussions on... READ FOR FREE