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African miners at open-pit site with ore moving toward ports and global markets, symbolising critical minerals supply chain.

Posted inCritical Minerals Governance & Transparency

Critical Minerals Circuits: Who Controls the Chain from Mine to Market?

Critical minerals have become the backbone of the global energy transition. Lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel, and rare earths are essential…

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Energy Transition Africa Editorial Desk September 17, 2025Tags: Africa energy transition, Africa supply chain, Africa trade policy, critical minerals Africa, just transition Africa, lithium cobalt Africa, mining value addition, resource governance Africa

Stack of debt paperwork with African farmland split between drought and flood, symbolising climate finance challenges.

Posted inEnergy Transition

Adaptation or Debt? Africa’s $50 Billion Dilemma

A summit of promises and risks The second Africa Climate Summit in Addis Ababa closed with bold headlines: African leaders…

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Energy Transition Africa Editorial Desk September 12, 2025Tags: adaptation finance Africa, Africa climate finance, Africa climate summit, Africa COP30 negotiations, Africa debt crisis climate, Africa energy transition, Climate justice Africa, loans vs grants climate

Cargo ship with containers in foreground, solar panels and wind turbines under construction in background, symbolising Africa’s energy transition.

Posted inGovernance & Transparency

Resource Nationalism and Renewable Finance: Africa’s Moment to Rise

From Abuja to Kinshasa, the tone of Africa’s energy debates is shifting. For decades, the continent’s mineral wealth was extracted…

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Vincent Egoro September 5, 2025Tags: Africa climate finance, Africa energy transition, Africa resource nationalism, critical minerals Africa, ESG Africa, just transition Africa, local value addition Africa, renewable energy Africa

African power lines at dusk with overlaid currency symbols, representing local-currency climate finance as a COP30 demand.

Posted inEnergy Transition

Finance in Local Currency: A COP30 Demand for Africa’s Energy Transition

At first glance, Africa’s energy transition looks as though it is finally gaining speed. Solar imports are at record highs,…

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Vincent Egoro August 29, 2025Tags: Africa climate finance, Africa energy transition, Climate justice Africa, COP30 Africa, finance in local currency, FX risk Africa, just energy transition Africa, renewable energy Africa

African transmission lines at dusk with finance and currency motifs, symbolising finance, FX risk and grid investment for fossil fuel phase-out.

Posted inFossil Fuel Phaseout

Africa Won’t Phase Out on Promises: Fossil Fuel Exit Demands Finance, FX and Grids

As the world looks ahead to next month’s Africa Climate Summit, negotiators are already circling one contentious phrase: “transitioning away…

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Energy Transition Africa Editorial Desk August 27, 2025Tags: Africa energy transition, AGN position, climate finance, climate finance Africa, Fossil fuel phaseout Africa, FX risk renewables, grid investment Africa, renewable energy Africa

African city with diesel generator and flickering lightbulb in foreground, solar panels and sunrise in background — symbolising outdated zombie energy systems blocking renewable transition.

Posted inEnergy Transition

Africa’s Zombie Energy Systems: The Hidden Barrier Stalling a Just Transition

The paradox of darkness in the age of sunlight On a humid evening in Lagos, a shopkeeper wheels out a…

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Energy Transition Africa Editorial Desk August 20, 2025Tags: Africa energy transition, energy poverty Africa, financing energy Africa, outdated energy infrastructure Africa, regional power pools Africa, renewable energy Africa, solar potential Africa, zombie energy systems

Green Goals, Grey Areas: The Politics of China-Africa Energy Relations

Posted inEnergy Transition

Green Goals, Grey Areas: The Politics of China-Africa Energy Relations

A few years ago, during a civil society exchange in Nairobi, a Kenyan energy advocate told me something that has…

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Energy Transition Africa Editorial Desk May 16, 2025Tags: Africa energy transition, AfricaTransition, BRI, ChinaAfricaRelations, CriticalMineralsAfrica, EnergyTransitionAfrica, FOCAC, GreenEnergyPolitics, renewable energy Africa, RenewableEnergyAfrica, ValueAddition

Four marine engineers in orange safety suits and helmets guide a thick, insulated power cable from the deck of a vessel into the sea during an offshore cable-laying operation.

Posted inEnergy Transition

Powering Europe, Darkening Africa? The New Scramble for African Renewables

In 2025, as Europe scrambles to meet its climate goals and reduce dependence on Russian energy, a new frontier has…

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Energy Transition Africa Editorial Desk May 12, 2025Tags: Africa energy transition, Africa-Europe energy trade, electricity access, energy colonialism, energy justice, EnergyAccess, green colonialism, just transition, renewable energy Africa

A rural African woman walks past a disconnected solar panel installation beside her home, highlighting the disconnect between climate finance pledges and on-ground energy access.

Posted inEnergy Transition

Pledges and Power Cuts: How Climate Finance Is Failing Africa

The promises came wrapped in billion-dollar ribbons. At COP summits, in glossy brochures, and during press conferences, world leaders pledged…

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Energy Transition Africa Editorial Desk May 7, 2025Tags: Africa energy transition, ClimateFinance, ClimateJustice, EnergyAccess, EnergyPoverty, JustTransition, solarpower

Batteries for the West, Burdens for Africa: The Cost of Green Minerals

Posted inCommunity Impact Critical Minerals

Batteries for the West, Burdens for Africa: The Cost of Green Minerals

As the world accelerates toward a net-zero future, Africa is rapidly becoming the ground zero for green energy’s raw materials.…

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Vincent Egoro April 1, 2025Tags: Africa energy transition, African mining governance, civil society and extractives, clean energy injustice, cobalt DRC, community rights mining, environmental justice, green minerals Africa, just energy transition, lithium mining Africa

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