On December 4rd, 2025, two African leaders, DR Congo’s President Félix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame sat across the table and made hard promises in Washington at the signing ceremony to endorse the Washington Accords, a deal agreed on June 27, 2025 to end the decades-long war in Eastern Congo. The peace agreement […]
In the marbled grandeur of the United Nations General Assembly Hall during the General Debate on 23 September 2025 under the theme: Better Together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights”, a story unfolded that was profoundly very shocking to those who heard it, and revealed fault-lines in global climate diplomacy too. […]
How Lead Poisoning from Battery Recycling is Ravaging Public Health in Nigerian Communities In the dust-filled exuberations of the industrial-town of Ogijo, which spans across the borders of Lagos and Ogun states in Nigeria, a ghastly scenario is being played as children are presently playing amidst the haze of metallic lead clouds that drift like […]
What COP30’s Cruise-Ship Solution Reveals About Climate Justice and Global Power A solemn sight from the COP30 occurred at the gangways of the Outeiro Port, approximately 20 kilometres from the conference centre of Belém. UN badge clad delegates descend off the Costa Diadema and MSC Seaview, carrying laptops and coffee, being ferried between floating hotels […]
Climate-induced floods and the Quiet Unravelling of Citizenship When the monsoon rains started falling at the end of 2025, they did not knock outside the doors in a polite way, they wiped whole neighbourhoods off the face of the earth. In central Viet Nam, a single meteorological station had over 1,700 mm of precipitation on […]
Can Nigeria’s Carbon-Credit Gamble Deliver Wins at Home and Abroad? When a fisherman in Nigeria is questioned about climate change, he will say that climate diplomacy is a far-off thing until the tide in his compound rises higher with each passing year. Markets, mitigation are not what he talks of; it is roofs, nets and […]
Jonathan Tarnue Payne 
Precious Douglas Maulana 
Eslam Mohamed Elsheikh 
Lutfi Nurachma 
David R.K Brown 
Asef Jafari