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Renewable Energy in Africa: Why the Debate Is About Access, Not Emissions

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Last Updated: July 2026 Overview The African renewable energy debate is organized around electricity access, not around decarbonization, and importing the framing used in Europe or North America produces a misreading of almost every policy dispute on the continent. Roughly 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa have no electricity connection at all, and Africa’s contribution … Read more

Data Privacy in Africa: Biometric ID Systems Are the Real Stake

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Last Updated: July 2026 Overview The data privacy question in Africa is not primarily about targeted advertising. It is about national biometric identity systems that are being built at speed, that determine access to a SIM card, a bank account, a pension and sometimes a vote, and that hold fingerprints and iris scans for hundreds … Read more

Kenya Politics in 2026: Grief, Protest, and the Long Road to the 2027 Election

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Overview Kenya enters the second half of 2026 with its politics reshaped by two events. The first was the death of opposition leader Raila Odinga in October 2025, which removed the dominant figure of Kenyan opposition politics for nearly three decades and left a vacuum no one has yet filled. The second was the return … Read more