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Morocco is becoming Africa's solar energy powerhouse with one of the world's largest solar complexes

For years, Morocco has relied heavily on imported fossil fuels to meet its energy needs. Today, it is rewriting that story by harnessing one resource it has in abundance: sunshine. Through massive investments in solar and wind energy, the North African nation has emerged as one of Africa's leading renewable…

The Times of India

Africa secures $900 million in new clean cooking commitments

African countries have secured $900 million in new financial commitments to expand access to clean cooking

The Independent UK

US deports another group of migrants to country they have no ties to

The southern African kingdom of Eswatini accepted a fourth group of 11 individuals deported from the United States this week, predominantly from African countries, under a bilateral agreement to temporarily host third-country nationals. The Eswatini government affirmed that the fundamental rights of the migrants would be respected and protected during…

The Independent UK

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Racial stereotypes of African footballers persist. A World Cup is a good time to talk about them

With a Somali referee being denied entry into the US, and the surge of online racist abuse after 2026 World Cup matches, racism and exclusion in football are once again in the news.

The Conversation

Arizona Pastor Dale Partridge Says God Assigned Black People To 'Subordination' And Calls For Recolonising Africa

Arizona pastor Dale Partridge is under fire after preaching that Black people were divinely assigned to subordination and calling for the recolonisation of Africa.

International Business Times UK

Congo Basin warming may be nudging tropical rain eastward, and scientists say the shift reaches from Africa to the western Pacific

Rising temperatures over Africa's Congo Basin are actively altering global weather patterns. This warming pushes tropical rainfall eastward, creating a climate ripple effect. Atmospheric waves transport heat, forcing air to rise and suppress precipitation elsewhere. These shifts influence large weather systems like the Madden-Julian Oscillation. Improved forecasting may benefit communities…

The Times of India

Egypt is building an entire desert city from scratch, crowned by a 1,263 foot skyscraper

About 45 kilometres east of Cairo, in a stretch of desert that held nothing but flat, arid gravel and sand only a decade ago, Egypt has built an entire new city from the ground up. Officially called the New Administrative Capital, and more recently renamed The New Capital, the project…

The Times of India

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‘A counter-narrative of history’: Schomburg Center’s 100 years of celebrating Black culture

A Puerto Rico-born New Yorker’s relentless collecting on the African diaspora is still the core of a Harlem institution

The Guardian - US

Less drugs, less care, less food: how aid cuts have hit Uganda’s 2m refugees

Africa’s largest refugee population has seen rations and healthcare slashed as funding levels drop

The Guardian - UK

The fish that changed Lake Victoria forever: How Nile perch triggered one of history’s biggest ecosystem disruptions in the 1950s

For generations, Lake Victoria supported one of the world’s richest freshwater ecosystems. Beneath its surface lived hundreds of species of cichlid fish, many found nowhere else on Earth. These small, colourful fish had evolved over thousands of years to occupy different parts of the lake, from rocky shorelines to deeper…

The Times of India

100,000 years ago, one of the earliest Homo sapiens outside Africa was stabbed in the face, analysis finds

A microscopic analysis of the skull of Qafzeh 25 revealed a cut mark likely made by a stone tool 100,000 years ago.

LiveScience

India could become potential partner in infra development in South Africa: Consul General

Indian companies are set to partner in South Africa's infrastructure development projects. South Africa seeks to modernize its rail and logistics ecosystem with Indian expertise. Indian firms offer affordable and reliable solutions backed by extensive experience. The Africa Rail Expo facilitated discussions and potential business collaborations. This engagement aims to…

The Economic Times

How did South Africa produce an anti-African movement?

In a country where xenophobia has a legacy, a recent well-funded iteration has emerged that feeds on post-apartheid failures and local insecurities

The Guardian - UK

Flawed credit ratings in Africa: are top 3 western agencies driven by data or bias?

The three major credit rating agencies – Moody’s, S&P Global and Fitch – have often differed among themselves when rating African institutions and countries. Their opinions don’t have to be aligned, but a huge gap in the ratings suggests inaccuracies in the analyses.

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Morocco set a proud example for Africa as France await at World Cup

The 2022 World Cup semi-finalists have delighted fans at home and set an example to other sides beset with off-field problems

International Business Times UK

Can Anyone Stop Nigeria? Super Falcons Eye Record 11th WAFCON Title as Morocco and South Africa Plot Upset

Nigeria's Super Falcons head to Morocco to defend their Women's Africa Cup of Nations title, aiming for a record 11th win amidst strong competition from top African teams.

The Conversation

South Sudan at 15: how the political elite have found a way to profit from peace as well as war

South Sudan’s independence from Sudan in 2011 was meant to close the chapter on one of Africa’s longest civil wars: the north-south war that preceded it. Formally, it did. But independence did not end the deeper struggles over power, revenue and coercion inside the newly independent state.

The Times of India

During the 1980s drought, a Burkina Faso farmer revived an ancient zai farming technique that turned barren land into a 40-hectare forest and inspired land restoration across the Sahel

In the early 1980s, as a severe drought gripped the Sahel region of West Africa, a farmer in northern Burkina Faso named Yacouba Sawadogo began quietly reviving an old, largely abandoned farming technique on land near his village that many considered too degraded to ever grow anything again. The technique,…

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Radio France Internationale

Climate justice in Africa: floods, fossil fuels and the fightback

This week in Spotlight on Africa, we look at climate change, environmental justice and the challenges of adaptation. While Europe's heatwaves make headlines, temperatures are also climbing across Africa, with parts of the Sahel approaching 50°C. West Africa is also experiencing severe flooding caused by climate change. Yet Africa is…

The Independent UK

The cities most at risk from extreme heat, ranked

More than 95 per cent of the cities at the greatest risk are in South Asia, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

The Conversation

What will AI do for us? Young adults in lower-income countries feel more positive about its potential – new survey

Young people in low- and middle-income countries appear generally more optimistic about how AI can enhance their work prospects and social lives than their western peers, according to our new survey of people in ten countries in Africa and South Asia.

The Times of India

Meet Paranthropus: The ancient human cousin that may have made the first stone tools 2.6 million years ago

For much of the last century, the story of early technology seemed straightforward. The genus Homo made stone tools, and their appearance marked a turning point on the path that eventually led to modern humans. The idea was so deeply embedded in human origins research that even Homo habilis was…

Bangkok Post

How US is using cash and threats to dump migrants in Africa

ABUJA - It began with threats of US visa bans on a swathe of African nations. Then Washington started to scatter migrants from all over the world to various corners of the continent, often with cash sweeteners for their governments.

The Conversation

Africa’s wildlife laws follow a colonial model which separates people and animals: why it’s not working

Africa is home to many iconic national parks and marine reserves, such as Virunga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niokolo-Koba in Senegal, Kruger National Park in South Africa and Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. Many of them were established during the colonial era, and nearly half are still…

Radio France Internationale

The Netherlands and Germany pledge return of 2,000 artefacts to Ghana

Ghana is set to receive around 2,000 looted artefacts from the Netherlands and Germany, in one of the largest cultural restitution efforts involving the West African nation to date.

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