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Hiring Without Limits: Jacques Nack's Mission to Unlock Africa's Workforce

Africa is home to a fast-growing, youthful, and digitally connected population. The potential of its emerging workforce is vast, and according to Jacques Nack, it's time to rethink how work, opportunity, and access are structured.

International Business Times

A newly forming ocean may split Africa apart, scientists say

A plume of molten rock deep beneath eastern Africa is pulsing upward in rhythmic surges, slowly splitting the continent and potentially marking the birth of a new ocean, a new study reports.

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Hurricane forecasters are losing 3 key satellites ahead of peak storm season − a meteorologist explains why it matters

About 600 miles off the west coast of Africa, large clusters of thunderstorms begin organizing into tropical storms every hurricane season. They aren’t yet in range of Hurricane Hunter flights, so forecasters at the National Hurricane Center rely on weather satellites to peer down on these storms and beam back…

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U.S. To Now Detain African, Asian, European and Caribbean Nationals At Guantanamo Center

The Trump administration is now holding detainees from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Caribbean in Guantanamo Bay

Latin Times

EU Commissioner Hoekstra defends hitting climate goals with help from abroad

The European Commissioner for Climate defends the strategy of paying other countries to cut Europe carbon emissions. In an interview with Euronews, Wopke Hoekstra, explains it as an opportunity to "build bridges" with Africa and Latin America.

Euronews

Ghana and India: Narendra Modi’s visit rekindles historical ties

Narendra Modi’s trip to Ghana in July 2025, part of a five-nation visit, is the first by an Indian prime minister in over 30 years. The two countries’ relationship goes back more than half a century to when India helped the newly independent Ghana set up its intelligence agencies. Ghana…

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Climate change has doubled the world’s heatwaves: how Africa is affected

A global review of extreme heat has found that between May 2024 and May 2025, nearly half the world’s people (49% or 4 billion) suffered through an extra 30 days of temperatures that were hotter than those experienced 90% of the time between 1991 and 2020.

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'King's Cross in Africa' rail station project unveiled as Kenya's president visits London

The Nairobi Railway City scheme aims to transform 438 acres of land in the centre of Kenya’s capital into a new multi-modal transport hub

Evening Standard

Catholic bishops from Asia, Africa, Latin America demand climate justice

Catholic bishops from Asia, Africa and Latin America are demanding climate justice for the parts of the world most affected by rising temperatures

The Independent UK

CBEX Crypto Scam: AI-hyped Ponzi Scheme Defrauds African Investors

Embarrassed and in debt, Edwin was left reeling after losing $16,000 to CryptoBridge Exchange (CBEX), one of the crypto-trading platforms preying on investors in Africa.

International Business Times

African women are key to fighting climate change – these are the green skills they will need

Women are an important and often underutilised human resource in Africa. They’ve faced many problems historically. Limited access to land, finance, education and decision-making platforms have meant that women across Africa haven’t been able to take part fully in the green economy.

The Conversation

British trophy-hunters shoot dozens of endangered animals including elephants, bears, baboons and cheetahs

Joanna Lumley condemns UK’s ‘shameful’ role in loss of African wildlife

The Independent UK

Australian influencers warned after several accounts inadvertently promote illegal offshore bookmakers

Exclusive: Leon Australia calls itself ‘Australia’s #1 Interactive Gaming and Sportsbook since 2008’ but is licensed in a tiny island off Africa

The Guardian - AU

Cutting new cloth: African designers stitch fresh stories into Paris fashion

When Valérie Ka started modelling at 14 in Côte d’Ivoire, she thought she was on top of the world. But she wanted to go further, so she created Africa Fashion Up – a way to help African designers reach the global stage.

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The Conversation

Zanzibar’s baobab trees used to be a valued part of society – drone images help prove it

Baobab trees may be a proxy for measuring long-term use of land by humans. They live long, have economic benefits, and are used as shrines and markers on landscapes. Archaeologists have long suspected an association between baobabs and human settlements. Wolfgang Alders, who researches early urbanism and the first migrations…

The Conversation

Battery swapping stations powered by solar and wind: we show how this could work for electric vehicles in South Africa

Petrol and diesel vehicles are being phased out globally and replaced with electric vehicles so that countries can meet their commitments to zero human-caused carbon emissions by 2050. But electric vehicles’ batteries run down quickly and take a long time to recharge. One solution is battery swapping systems, where depleted…

Benzinga

Trump Ally Eyes $500 Million Deal in Peace Plan for DR Congo

Global financier and longtime Trump associate Gentry Beach is reportedly negotiating for control of the Rubaya coltan mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Trump administration-backed initiative, accompanied by support from a consortium including the Swiss trading house Mercuria, shows the current preference for the US engagement with…

The Guardian - UK

‘A cascade can be more positive’: social tipping points expert on fixing climate crisis

The world has been too optimistic about the risk to humanity and planet – but devastation can still be avoided, says Timothy Lenton

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The Independent UK

New video game lets you steal back African artefacts from museums that took them

Relooted sees players infiltrate museums to retrieve real-world African artifacts taken during colonial era

The Guardian - UK

‘We are privileged’: liberal Afrikaners reject Trump’s ‘white genocide’ claims

As white South Africans arrive in US to escape ‘unjust racial discrimination’, many progressives feel angry at Trump’s portrayal of them as victims

The Guardian - UK

The global south needs more than tinkering at a conference: debt forgiveness is the only fair way

Next week, a UN summit in Seville will discuss the future of financing the world’s poorer nations. It should first concede that the old methods have failed

The Guardian - US

Trump basks in triumph as supreme court kicks away another guardrail

The decision to limit judicial power to curb the president caps a week of – in Trump’s telling – endless winning, from the Middle East to Nato to Africa

RideApart

This Guy Built a Working Motorcycle Out of Wood, As well as a "Helmet"

A tinkerer in what looks to be Africa built himself a working motorcycle out of wood and scraps, and he built himself a helmet, too.

The Conversation

Africa’s development banks are being undermined: the continent will pay the price

Ghana and Zambia’s official creditors are pressing them to default on loans to two African multilateral financial institutions: the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and the Trade and Development Bank (TDB).

The Guardian - UK

‘We don’t want to stay here’: UN accused of abandoning refugees in Niger

The west African country seems to be a dumping ground for thousands of people pushed back from north Africa after trying to reach Europe

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