Grey market: Incentive to produce charcoal illicitly or legally set to rise in Kenya

Grey market: Incentive to produce charcoal illicitly or legally set to rise in Kenya

Despite a longstanding moratorium on charcoal production and trade in Kenya, current high demand for the fuel that has been enforced by expansive alternatives such as liquified gas and kerosene has given rise to a booming ‘grey market’ that now threatens to exacerbate ecological degradation. Increased production and trade in...

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There are spying eyes everywhere – and now they share a brain

There are spying eyes everywhere – and now they share a brain

One afternoon in the fall of 2019, in a grand old office building near the Arc de Triomphe, I was buzzed through an unmarked door into a showroom for the future of surveillance. The space on the other side was dark and sleek, with a look somewhere between an Apple...

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