Green Rising

This is your captain speaking. We had to divert ever so slightly...

African nations had readied themselves for a green economy. Then the main sponsor disappeared. Now what?

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Africa's coal giants finally face a transition moment

Digging below ground is no longer what it used to be. But what comes next isn’t always clear

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Work days go slowly, but tech years fly by

Africa doesn’t seem like a place of great green innovation. Here we show how wrong that is

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Make Africa Great Again – what could go wrong?

African governments gleefully embrace trade bans to build domestic champions in the green economy

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Why African EV showrooms are full of blue collars

The continent’s mobility boom is led by businesses rather than consumers

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Renewables at last make full electrification attainable

Solar and wind power will remove one of the greatest blights in modern Africa. But by when?

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