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After the Coal Rush In Montceau-les-Mines, a French town once dependent on coal mining, there was no just transition from fossil fuels. Once a left-leaning industrial hub, Montceau today is an open field for the far right. A closed coal-washing plant in Montceau-les-Mines (Wikimedia Commons)   If there’s one part of the world that’s synonymous with wine, it’s the region of Burgundy, in east-central France. Yet when my mother’s family moved there in the early 1960s, the charm of the vineyards seemed far off. The town of roughly 6,000 t...

+ Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana, Ransford Gyampo, has described the NDC leadership in Parliament as a disappointment to parliamentary sovereignty and independence. According to him, the U-turn by the Minority leadership and their members on the Appointments Committee to support the approval of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta by consensus leaves much to be desired after their persistent attacks on the President’s nominee. “I am disappointed in the minority leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), they are a great disappointment and they a...