There is a quiet satisfaction, almost a collective exhale, in hearing the African Group of Negotiators (AGN) chairperson Nana Dr Antwi-Boasiako Amoah say it out loud. Not because it is new, but precisely because it isn’t.

We all knew it. And now, finally, it has been spoken from the centre of Africa’s climate negotiating machinery. 

We break down Dr Antwi-Boasiako’s thinking in this commentary.

After months of waiting, the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels will begin this week in Santa Marta, Colombia.

The event comes at a time of the largest oil supply shock in history, following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz amid the US-Israel war in Iran. The narrow waterway controls 20 percent of the global oil shipments. For many consumers around the world, its closure has meant higher pump prices, soaring commodity prices, and inflation.

Here’s what to know about the conference.

The Second Africa Urban Forum is an opportunity for countries on the continent to address inadequate housing challenges, vulnerable urban ecosystems, informal settlements, and restore ecological environments in cities. This piece details how Africa can build livable, climate-resilient and sustainable cities of the future.

The decision by the Green Climate Fund to establish regional offices in Africa fortifies the continent’s position in global climate governance and as a strategic hub for climate finance access and coordination. Read why this decision is also a big win for Africa’s civil society.

Nearly 2.3 billion people around the world still lack access to clean cooking. One billion of them are in Africa. But Africans are rewriting this narrative. Across the continent, governments are ramping up investments to improve access to clean cooking among their citizens. Read how this is happening.

The ongoing conflict in the Middle East, pitting Israel and the US on one hand and Iran on the other, is a stark warning to Africa about the vulnerability of economies tied to fossil fuels.

The very countries historically responsible for the bulk of greenhouse gas emissions are increasingly cutting development and climate budgets and redirecting resources toward defence and security priorities.

The African Development Bank presents itself as the champion of Africa’s sustainable future, but its growing financial support for LNG projects in Mozambique tells a different story

Are we willing to redefine security in a way that leaves no one invisible to the global system?

Millions of vulnerable communities across Africa, are waiting for that answer.

Water bankruptcy is a critical condition where human water usage exceeds renewable supplies and natural replenishment rates to such an extent that the damage to water-related natural capital—including aquifers and lakes—is irreversible or too costly to repair.

 In early February of 2026 a team of Power Shift Africa filmmakers spent a week in flood-devasted regions of Mozambique, cataloguing the damage, interviewing destitute families, and talking to helpless government officials. This report, alongside a full-length documentary, forms part of our exclusive coverage of these floods… and, most importantly, links the carnage to the moral obligation of loss and damage 

For millions of Mozambicans, survival depends heavily on the unpredictable rhythms of nature. In a country where agriculture, fisheries and informal livelihoods dominate the economy, rainfall patterns and river levels are not abstract meteorological indicators, but forces that determine whether families will harvest crops, rebuild homes or flee rising waters. 

The January 2026 flood disaster that killed 150 people and displaced nearly 1 million others in Mozambique was yet another brutal reminder of climate-induced extreme weather events. Beyond the headlines of washed-up farmlands, submerged homes and a wrecked economy, however, is the untold story of Estefania. A young woman who gave birth at a displacement camp in the midst of this madness. This is her story.

So far, more than 40 people have died from the floods that have rocked Kenya since Friday last week.

Acknowledging the primacy of public finance does not deny the role of the private sector. It means correctly situating it.

On the margins of the 39th Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a select group of policymakers, economists, diplomats and civil society leaders gathered for a closed-door dinner conversation that many described as both urgent and overdue.

When they met in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum last week, world leaders had plenty to ponder.  

The world’s wealth has not disappeared; it is concentrated in a few hands in ways that limit its impact on those who need it most. 

For those who imagined a new, peaceful, and prosperous post-war world 80 years ago, the world would be unrecognisable in its current state. Many leaders, however, still believe in international cooperation. But they also want the UN reimagined.