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Solar Flare Warning: Earth Hit By Largest Eruption Of 2025 – Blackouts Likely

Largest Solar Flare of 2025 causes radio blackouts across Europe and Africa. NOAA warns of a G3 storm that could affect power grids and GPS systems.

International Business Times UK

Sun unleashes strongest solar flare of 2025, sparking radio blackouts across Africa and Europe

The X5.1-class eruption from sunspot AR4274 is this year's most powerful solar flare and Earth is in the firing line.

Space

Biovac starts trials on South Africa's first domestically developed cholera vaccine

Researchers in South Africa have launched clinical trials for the first vaccine developed entirely in the country

The Independent UK

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African HIV services face double blow of cuts from both Trump and UK

ON THE GROUND: Britain has significantly slashed its contribution to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – compounding aid cuts announced by Donald Trump earlier this year

The Independent UK

Smartphones, women’s rights and coupons: new trends that can boost insurance for African farmers

Storms, drought, floods and heatwaves are a disaster for small scale farmers in Africa, who can’t all afford insurance. Yet new, technologically advanced and cheaper types of agricultural insurance exist and could be rolled out across Africa. These include picture-based insurance that relies on smartphone photos to assess crop damage,…

The Conversation

Takeaways from an AP report on a Europe-funded program returning African migrants

The European Union has given a U.N.-affiliated organization hundreds of millions of dollars to help African migrants return from failed journeys to Europe and support them back home

The Independent UK

African migrants assert a Europe-funded program abandons them after returning them home

The European Union has given a U.N.-affiliated body hundreds of millions of dollars to help thousands of African migrants return from failed journeys to Europe and support them back home

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Africa’s drone wars are growing – but they rarely deliver victory

In the last decade, armed drones have become one of the most visible symbols of modern warfare. Once the preserve of advanced militaries, armed drones are now widely available on the global arms market. Countries such as Turkey, China and Iran are producing lower-cost models and exporting them. In Sudan’s…

The Conversation

What will it take to make Africa food secure? G20 group points to trade, resilient supply chains and sustainable farming

The Sustainable Food and Agricultural Systems work stream of the Business 20, a G20 engagement group, has endorsed three principles that it argues will contribute to the building of sustainable food systems and agriculture. The principles are increased trade, resilient supply chains, and sustainable agricultural practices.

The Conversation

Land is Africa’s best hope for climate adaptation: it must be the focus at COP30

Agriculture, forestry and other land uses together account for about 62% of Africa’s greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, land degradation, deforestation and biodiversity loss are eroding Africa’s resilience.

The Conversation

Malaria isn’t just a health crisis — it’s an economic imperative

Economic losses from malaria don’t stay in Africa.

Fortune

"Being close to a leopard doesn't happen often!" Wildlife photographer captured rare shot using APS-C camera and Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L IS

After hours of waiting, Rémi Vacher captured a calm and intimate moment with one of Africa's most elusive predators using the Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L IS

Digital Camera World

Katingan Dayak bronze bells: Traces of migration or local creative expression?

The scent of tabalien wood (Eusideroxylon zwageri) and the laughter of children playing in the yard greeted me as I stepped into a wooden house in Tumbang Panggu, a remote village in Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan province.

The Conversation

Businessman who blew the whistle on a South African government bribery scandal gets plea deal

A businessman who confessed to being a fixer who delivered bribes to South African government officials, lawmakers and others in a corruption scheme that enraged the nation has avoided jail time in a plea deal announced by state prosecutors

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South Africa launches investigation into 17 citizens fighting in Ukraine

Men aged 20 to 39 ‘lured to join mercenary force’ in Donbas region have requested assistance to return home

The Conversation

African poetry is celebrated in a groundbreaking publishing project

For 10 years, Ghanaian poet Kwame Dawes and his friend the Nigerian writer Chris Abani have sifted through piles of manuscripts looking for Africa’s new poetic talent. Since 2014, the African Poetry Book Fund has been assembling a formidable archive of writing through the New Generation African Poets Chapbook Series.

The Conversation

The comedy economy: Nigeria’s online video skits are making millions

Short comedy videos circulating on social media have created a booming industry in Nigeria in the past few years. The country’s comedy creators put their skits out on platforms like YouTube, TikTok and Instagram to reach a massive audience.

The Conversation

The secret life of baobabs: how bats and moths keep Africa’s giant trees alive

Baobabs are sometimes called “upside-down trees”, because their branches look like roots reaching skywards. Of the eight species of baobab in the world, six are confined to Madagascar, one to northern Australia and one species, Adansonia digitata, is found across the savannah regions of continental Africa.

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“Investment in Africa”… the giant engine of development and prosperity

The African continent continuously needs investment and support for its economies—as much as it needs development and relief assistance in some countries—to drive development and prosperity that directly improves people’s lives and strengthens stability.

The Guardian - US

Ugandans view Mamdani’s NYC win as a ‘beacon of hope’ amid democratic struggle

Ugandans react with joy after Kampala-born Mamdani’s victory during a trying time for democracy in east Africa

The Independent UK

Wife of Minnesota preacher killed in Africa found guilty alongside her Angolan ‘romantic partner’ of plotting murder

Jackie Shroyer was reportedly in a romantic relationship with one of the men who took part in her husband’s murder

The Independent UK

South Africa investigates how 17 men were duped into joining mercenaries in the Russia-Ukraine war

The South African government says it will investigate how 17 of its citizens were tricked into fighting as mercenaries in the Russia-Ukraine war after they asked for help to escape the conflict in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region

Evening Standard

Revealed: 'Green king' Sadiq Khan has clocked up 100,000 air miles since becoming London mayor

Full extent of London mayor’s foreign travel catalogued for first time since he was elected to City Hall in 2016

The Independent UK

Photos of Zohran Mamdani and his supporters as they celebrate his election as NYC's mayor

Zohran Mamdani has won New York City’s mayoral election. He will be the city’s first Muslim mayor, the first of South Asian heritage and the first born in Africa.

Reason

No Injunction in Defamation and Copyright Case Stemming from "Africatown International Design Competition"

From Magistrate Judge Gray Borden's opinion Friday in Studiorotan LLC v. Howell (N.D. Ala.): A team of researchers discovered the… The post No Injunction in Defamation and Copyright Case Stemming from "Africatown International Design Competition" appeared first on Reason.com.

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