In just over a decade, the number of people living in areas at risk of being swallowed has doubled from 1.6 million in 2010 to 3.2 million in 2023. They’ve caused an estimated 118,600 people to abandon their homes between 2004 and 2023.
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In just over a decade, the number of people living in areas at risk of being swallowed has doubled from 1.6 million in 2010 to 3.2 million in 2023. They’ve caused an estimated 118,600 people to abandon their homes between 2004 and 2023.
According to the researchers, the gullies have so far caused an estimated 118,600 people to abandon their homes between 2004 and 2023. And the problem is getting worse.
Deep, gigantic cracks in the Earth known as gullies are tearing through cities in DRC, swallowing up houses and streets, destroying infrastructure and displacing thousands of people. These deep and widening chasms often appear without warning, swallowing up everything in their path.
Mónica Fernandes was shipped from the coast of modern-day Ghana to Portugal in 1556 to stand trial. Her “crime”? Using traditional medicine!!!
How Africa’s underdog crushed Chinese e-commerce giants. Jumia turns US leader Trump’s trade war chaos into massive growth opportunity.
Rwanda to launch Africa’s first-ever flying taxi during the Aviation Africa 2025 Summit that started in Kigali today. It’s partnering with China’s CRBC, one of the global leaders in urban air mobility technology in the project.
In journalist Howard W. French’s new book “The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide’, he tells the story of decolonisation and pan-Africanism through the life of Ghana’s visionary first leader, Kwame Nkrumah.
60% of Kenyan civil servants struggle with mental health, Public Service ministry warns!!!
Solar panel imports (outside of red hot South African solar market) are accelerating in Africa, rising 60% in the last 12 months. This is “the first evidence of a take-off in solar” on the continent.
Comorian woman accuses Minister of Justice and Islamic Affairs, Anfani Hamada Bacar, as among men who raped her for years.
Gen Z is, by a large margin, the least criminal American generation in living memory. The unintended consequence of social media and smartphones…(Love this!)
Early humans moved stones up to 13Km to make tools more than 2.6 million years ago, which is 600,000 years earlier than thought, new study of the Nyayanga archaeological site in Kenya finds.
Finland’s Development minister says aid to Somalia depends on acceptance of its own citizens who have been deported from the Nordic country.
Total charges on some tickets average $613: AFRICAN FLIGHT TICKET COMEDY OF TAXES & CHARGES: ⛽ Fuel charge - $317 📦 Miscellaneous services $68 💰 Passenger duty - $122 🙂 Passenger service - $45 🛡️ Aviation safety - $9 🏗️ Airport development - $4 😂 Tanzania’s $90 "Facilitation" fee (from Nov)!
Africa’s tourism, generating $186Bn in 2019, is stifled by high airfare costs. Intra-African flights cost 45% more than global averages, with taxes averaging $68 per departure. This “Africa Premium” deters tourists, limiting arrivals despite a 7% rise in 2024.
China’s trade with Africa is booming, as barriers rise elsewhere. Total exports to the continent are expected to pass the $200 billion mark this year for the FIRST TIME.
Scientists working in Morocco have discovered more bones belonging to the armoured dinosaur Spicomellus, one of the strangest finds ever…”"We’ve never seen anything like this in any animal before."
5/5 Investors still look away. Despite offering the world’s highest returns, Africa gets just 4% of global FDI. Worse, more African capital leaves than stays—intra-African investment is under 3%. #FDI #Africa
4/5 The continent’s (and world’s) lungs are failing. Africa has flipped from being a net carbon sink to a net emitter within a decade—now releasing 4.5bn tonnes of CO₂ annually. The warning lights are flashing. #ClimateCrisis #Africa
3/5 Africa holds the world’s treasure chest. It controls 30% of global mineral reserves, including 75% of critical minerals for the green transition. But exports stay raw—the jobs and profits are made abroad. #Africa #GreenTransition
2/5 Africa’s external public debt has almost doubled in 10 years to $690bn. Servicing it gulps 14% of budgets—twice what goes to health. Creditors eat before citizens. #DebtCrisis #Africa
1/5 Aid to Africa was already falling even before Trump’s cuts. Continent’s share of global aid has dropped from 37% in 2013 to just 26% in 2022. It’s now in a post-aid era—but no plan has replaced the lost billions - The 2025 Mo Ibrahim Forum Report #Africa #PostAid
The Nigerian govt added to the furor, claiming in a (now-deleted) announcement that “the Japanese government will create a special visa category for highly skilled, innovative, and talented young Nigerians who want to move to Kisarazu (city) to live and work.”
Ageing Japan denies giving away its Nagai city to Tanzania after misinformation sparks anti-immigration backlash.
Classical music superstar Yo-Yo Ma is teaming up with esteemed Benin vocalist Angélique Kidjo for “Sarabande Africaine,” a concert series that combines classical and traditional African music.
Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Stadium, CHAN and the strange politics of African football.
Grenada’s Carnival is full of African history, resistance, and some of the world’s best parties.
Nana Darkoa’s “The Sex Lives of African Women” belongs on every man’s bookshelf.
In its heyday, Nsumbu National Park—at Zambia’s northernmost tip along Lake Tanganyika—was one of the country’s wildlife jewels. But decades of poaching and neglect ruined it. Now it’s roaring back.
A distressing trend reported in Kenya shows Gen Z women intentionally get pregnant and then abort—reportedly to gain weight, a “pregnancy glow,” and body changes—before terminating the pregnancy.
Padded hips, fake pregnancies and artificial breasts (other reports speak of fake beauty hands and legs): Inside Kampala's fake beauty bonanza. There are payment plans, and exports to Kenya and Rwanda!
From guava and onion to waterleaf, Nigeria’s everyday plants—alongside oil palm, African mango, yam, cocoyam, and wild lettuce, scientists identify 9 Nigerian (African) plants with powerful anticancer effects.
US teens are obsessed with stunning African prom dresses, sparking a booming business connecting African fashion designers with young people worldwide! Prices range from $600-$1,000, with luxury custom pieces topping $1,500. #AfricanFashion
Guinea's military junta suspends 3 main political parties - for three months, ahead of referendum on revising the constitution on Sept. 21. By the time they are “free” again, things will be over, done and dusted.
South Africa’s Free Lives and QCF delivered innovative gameplay, while Ghana’s Leti Arts, led by Eyram Tawia, presented “Karmzah” and “Africa’s Legends” (photo). Senegal’s Amanirenas, led by Mame Mor Kandji, also shone.
Deluxe Creation Studios, founded by Edushola, impressed with stunning visuals in “Chike.” Dimension 11 Studios, under Ewere Ekpenisi-Igumbor, unveiled the Yoruba-inspired “Legends of Orisha.”
African studios made a strong showing at Gamescom 2025 in Cologne, Germany, the world’s largest video gaming event, highlighting storytelling that drew on the continent’s cultural heritage and history. Nigeria’s Maliyo Games, led by Hugo Obi, showcased titles like “Okada Ride.”
DR Congos ‘public prosecutor seeks death penalty for former President Joseph Kabila, who is being tried in absentia for “treason, war crimes”, and supporting the M23 rebel group.
Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran who had been living in the U.S. for over 10 years and was wrongfully deported in March, likely to be redeported to Uganda in the next few hours, report says.
NGO says it rescued ten migrants off the Libyan coast after they were thrown overboard by armed militiamen. Nearly 24,500 people have died or gone missing along the route over the past decade, making it one of the deadliest migration corridors in the world.
Ishiba also said his govt would study the idea of a Japan-Africa Economic Partnership, and announced a vision for a distribution network that links African and Indian Ocean nations.
Africa has everything it takes to become a "renewable superpower", said UN head Antonio Guterres in Africa conference in Japan. Japan PM Shigeru Ishiba also announced a plan to train 30,000 people in AI in Africa over 3 years.
Massive anti-cybercrime drive, "Operation Serengeti 2.0”, which brought together investigators from 18 African countries and the UK leads to over 1,200 arrests and seizure of millions of dollars.
3/3: The UN says up to 50% of the drugs in West Africa are unregulated, and resulting in an estimated 500,000 deaths a year, with sexual stimulants like Attoté the most frequently reported.
2/3: Public health officials in Ivory Coast found that so-called sexual stimulants, like the beverage Attoté, contains a drug commonly known as Viagra, but at levels eight times higher than the recommended dose.
1/3: West Africa flooded with unregulated "herbal" sex drugs! Men face dire risks: uncontrollable drooling, migraines, life-threatening erections, and heart attacks. Given the other deadly drugs & drinks, can Western African men survive?
William Gregson was a notorious British slave trader. Records show that around 58,000 enslaved Africans were forced onto his ships, and at least 9,000 of them DIED before ever reaching the Americas.
In a “stunning” result from a Kenya study, researchers discover a secret weapon that saves babies’ lives. And it’s not medical.
Interesting. “Rewilding Europe” aims to restore natural processes and reintroduce native species across the continent, by allowing ecosystems to regain their natural dynamics, including in urban areas.
Dr. Alieu Kamara, the first and only neurosurgeon in Sierra Leone – for 8 million patients!
The monthly salaries and office costs of Nigeria’s 109 senators are enough to pay 4,708 of the country’s professors.
Survey maps published last month have revealed more than SIX MILLION animals moving through an unmonitored area of South Sudan and Ethiopia in the greatest migration of mammals ever seen in the world.
Branded a “disgrace”, the game between Al-Ahli Tripoli and Al Ittihad "descended into a melee" that saw "rival players and staff members kicking and punching one another, forcing the police to move in".
Libya's “curious” football cup, played in Italy to empty stadiums. Political instability and logistical issues have made it difficult to host matches safely in Libya.
"My parents were illiterate and didn't know any better. Back then, a lot of poor and illiterate families would marry their girls off at that age", Mina said. This absence of awareness and schooling affects MORE THAN 700 MILLION WOMEN WORLDWIDE WHO BECAME BRIDES WHILE STILL MINORS!😳😳😳
“I was married at 12, a mother by 14 and a widow before I was 19”: A heartbreaking new book shares the reality of women's lives in Iran, where the legal age for women to marry is as young as 13.
The late Kenyan novelist and activist believed erasing language was the most lasting weapon of oppression. Here👆 Aminatta Forna (a British writer of Scottish and Sierra Leonean ancestry) recalls the man and introduces his essay on decolonisation 2/2
Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest 1/2 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Saudi Arabia has the lowest retirement age in the world, with some workers being able to access their full pension benefits by 47. India, Indonesia, and Turkey, all have retirement ages set in the 50s.
Denmark will soon be tied with Libya to have the highest official retirement age in the word at 70 years. USA in 3rd place, with an official retirement age of 66.7 years, and Spain in 4th place with 66.5 years.
On 14 August 2024, the world exhaled: “Mpox seems like it’s no longer a problem.” 14 August 2025 — the truth is harsher: it never left. One pandemic wasn’t enough. Now there are two — and counting.
President William Ruto says his government is in talks with Facebook’s parent company, Meta, to make easier and faster for Kenyan digital content creators to get paid through its world-leading mobile money M-PESA. That would be huge if works out!
Madagascar welcomes back giant tortoises after 600 years.
Blue whales return to Seychelles’ seas after 50 years! The largest animal worldwide, which makes a bull elephant look like a cub, it can reach lengths of up to 100 feet (30 metres) or more.
Senegal’s “school for husbands”, where men learn to swap “barking orders” for cooking dinner, for washing dishes and supporting their wives’ health! Saving lives, one chore at a time #GenderEquality #HusbandsInTraining #AfricanLives
The obscure dinosaur species that had 500 teeth. The Nigersaurus roamed what is now Niger, Africa, approximately 115-105 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period.
Eish! This must have the African Patriarchy in a bind. It justifies them continuining to blame children's failures on their mothers, but makes it harder for them to claim credit for their success.
Young chimpanzees learn vocal and visual patterns of communication primarily from their mothers and maternal relatives, says a study of the animals in Uganda's Kibale National Park. This ability mirrors the way that young humans learn from their primary caretakers.
President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has pledged to restore financial integrity to Senegal’s government…but exempted himself from the very anti-corruption new law meant to enforce it! He too ended there, so predictable🥱🥱🥱
Searching for the literary and emotional landscapes that shape the fiction of Nobel Prize-winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah in his Zanzibar ancestral land, all I found was trinkets and tourists.
West Pokot has been named Kenya’s happiest county. West Pokot is among the 10 poorest devolved counties in Kenya. Nairobi is one of the unhappiest – and it’s the country’s richest county.
Between 1904 and 1908, in what is now Namibia and Tanzania, the ruling Germans “directly killed or starved to death” approximately “60,000 Herero” and “10,000 Nama” in Namibia, as well as “up to 250,000 Ngoni, Ngindo, Matumbi and members of other ethnic groups” in crushing colonial uprisings 2/2
Gaza is no anomaly: Hunger and hoarding are the West’s oldest weapons. Across continents and centuries, Western domination has always been achieved by feeding the few and starving the many 1/2
The first World Humanoid Robot Games began today in Beijing, China. Hundreds of robotics teams from 16 countries are going for gold at sports like athletics, basketball, kung fu, as well as practical tasks such as medicine categorisation and cleaning. us.afpnews.com/article/?foo...
Oh la la, French dictionary stumbles hard on Congolese banana leaf dish! Tried to define this steamy, savory dish but got it all wrong—Kinshasa’s chefs are saying, “Our flavor’s too big for your pages!” By the way, in Uganda they call it “Luwombo”.
Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos, one of the world’s most polluted cities, has banned single-use plastics. It’s not so easy.
Nigeria’s 135km Ibadan-Ilorin dual-carriageway has been "under construction" for 46 years, yet it’s nowhere near complete. Good intentions abound, but actual tarmac? Still a dream.
More disconcertingly, people in wealthy nations—especially younger generations— seem to be experiencing rising rates of anxiety and depression. What should we make of this paradox?
Is progress making people miserable? There’s a longstanding and counterintuitive finding in global happiness research: the richest countries don’t always report being the happiest, and rising wealth doesn’t necessarily lead to higher life satisfaction.
Yet despite its staggering death toll and brutality, the event has remained largely unknown for over a century, both internationally and even within Kenya.
Sotik massacre of June 1905: The little-known British massacre in colonial Kenya that claimed the lives of up to 1,850 Kipsigis men, women, and children. It was one of the deadliest punitive expeditions in East African history.
Loosely resembling tentacled jellyfish yet somewhat unsettlingly dark and sharp, his sculptures evoke a distinctive tension between familiarity and the unknown; sentient creatures and the stuff of science fiction.
Ugandan artist Donald Wasswa’s delicate wooden creatures emerge from a speculative future. Simply brilliant!!!!
"When the roots are deep, there is no reason to fear the wind." – African proverb
For a fleeting moment last year, Nairobi was Washington’s darling, and Kenya was designated a Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA), the first in sub-Saharan Africa. Just over a year later, that all lies in tatters. Why?
Textile designer and creative director Eva Sonaike, is passionate about bringing her West African heritage into her work and home, which is a riot of colour, pattern and creativity.
"In Morocco, I walk around with T-shirts bearing messages against religions, Islam, etc,” she wrote on X. “You tire us with your sanctimoniousness, your accusations. Yes, Islam, like any religious ideology, is FASCIST, PHALLOCRATIC AND MISOGYNISTIC.”
Moroccan feminist and human rights activist Ibtissame ‘Betty’ Lachgar arrested after wearing “Allah is lesbian” T-shirt. She faces up to two years in prison.
Fans turn on Kenyan star sprinter, Ferdinand Omanyala, as he failed to clock in below 10 seconds once again – although he won the race.
Other reporting suggests that agrivoltaics boosts crop yields by up to 20% in dry regions. #Agrivoltaics #SustainableFarming #FoodSecurity #Africa
U.S. scientists find that agrivoltaics—combining solar energy with farming— can help improve crop yields in dry regions. This practice, which is already used in Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa, reduces water loss and provides shade, improving crop growth. #Agrivoltaics #FoodSecurity #Africa
In June 1942, Cameroonian man Jonas N’Doki was executed (beheaded) in Hitler’s Nazi Germany; not for murder, treason, or political rebellion, but for having affairs with white women.
Jesus chatbots are on the rise. In other religions, the same development has taken place, with AI chatbots like the Buddhist Norbu AI and, in the Islam faith, like Brother Junaid at Salaam World.
Hollywood stars Halle Berry and Beninese-American Djimon Hounsou are expected in Kenya to shoot Red Card, a movie thriller centred around wildlife trafficking and organised crime.
Somali Museum Dance Troupe redefines tradition in Minnesota. The troupe’s TikTok presence has helped popularise traditional dances among U.S.-born Somalis — and spread the dancers’ innovative moves.
In USA new entry bans, three-tier entry system to affect 43 nations - 22 of them African.
Just 2% of global air traffic flows through the continent, despite it housing nearly 18% of the world’s population. Aging infrastructure and regulatory hurdles mean only 19% of African airports meet international safety standards.
Airfares in Africa are among the world’s highest, with intra-African flights costing 30% - 50% more per mile than in Europe or Asia due to taxes, fuel costs, and limited competition. 80% of African cities lack direct flight routes. #TravelAfrica #AviationChallenges
“Memories of Love Returned,” by Ugandan-American filmmaker Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, looks at the life and work of late local photographer Kibaate Aloysius Ssalongo. Ssalongo photographed his community for an incredible 50+years until his death in 2006.
South African National Defence Force (SANDF) concerned over the increasing trend of uniformed members posting obscene photos and videos on their personal social media accounts while wearing military uniforms😳🤭