Sipho Kings

Each party has laid on a spread of piping hot coffee and thick chunks of bread at their tables, luring in voters.

Climate negotiations have often excluded Africa. But in the past year, negotiators from the continent have started to change the exclusionary structures

As the world fails to contain greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, climate catastrophes will increase, exacerbated by poor governance

Here are some of the people who made it in worlds as diverse as entertainment, sport and politics — and made a difference on the continent

In Egypt, African countries will demand recompense for the pollution of the richest countries, who will try to change the topic

The Africa Energy Outlook 2022 report charts how the continent can get electricity to everyone by 2030.

Sea levels are rising, rainfall is unpredictable, soaring temperatures make life unbearable and people in cities will be hardest hit

The climate crisis will hit Africa hard. The Covid-19 crisis has shown that African states can’t rely on the Global North to do the right thing. Nevertheless, there are signs…

The activist who forced her way onto front pages: Initially cropped out and sidelined, Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has now become an essential voice for Africa on the…

Thanks to the Omicron variant, it is harder than ever for Africans to travel – even though public health experts say the restrictions make no sense

When crises strike then selfishness prevails, as Britain has done with its vaccine ‘red’ travel list

Only Gambia has a plan that, if everyone acted the same way, would see global heating kept to below 1.5°C.

As the demand for oil shrinks and prices collapse, Africa’s petro states — the likes of Angola, Nigeria, Egypt and Equatorial Guinea — will be left with massive holes in their…

Replacing one of the most-loved cars in history, the new Defender pulls off the near impossible task of doing almost everything better

Talking to the media, President Cyril Ramaphosa said he too was frustrated by the slow pace of justice around corruption, but that ‘the change that we have all wanted to see is…

President Ramaphosa drops most of the restrictions that have been in place for the last five months, citing ‘signs of hope’

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Sipho Kings has been appointed the acting editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian

With the nearly two-month grinding the economy to a halt as a result of the Covid-19 lockdown, carbon emissions globally have dropped to 2006 levels