The first results from the world’s biggest basic income experiment ~finance Article 1358 words 49 votes
GiveDirectly loses $900,000 in DRC mobile cash fraud ~finance Article 1659 words, published Jun 5 2023 24 votes
Weather extremes threaten food security (2012) ~enviro climate change Article 979 words, published Feb 24 2012 9 votes
Deep in the Arctic permafrost, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is protecting Africa's food supply ~science biology Article 1329 words 12 votes
Rwanda authorizes visa free travel for all Africans, joining Gambia, Benin, the Seychelles. Kenya promised to do the same this year ~travel Article 35 votes
Europe’s coming reckoning on immigration – large-scale immigration is the only thing that can prevent Europe from becoming an empty amusement park ~misc politics Article 1915 words, published Oct 28 2023 35 votes
Americas’ first cowboys were enslaved Africans, ancient cow DNA suggests ~humanities.history Link 24 votes
The new colonialist food economy - forced use of patented seeds in Africa ~enviro sustainability Article 5080 words 27 votes
The African Union is joining the G20, a powerful acknowledgement of a continent of one billion people ~news politics Article 736 words 23 votes
Fatal stabbing of Gabonese student highlights 'daily' racism faced by Africans in Russia ~life education.higher Article 1121 words 10 votes
President of Niger: My country is under attack and I’ve been taken hostage ~misc politics Article 838 words 91 votes
"Tanzania: Land of the Lion" shows the benefits of community-based conservation ~enviro conservation Article 825 words 6 votes
A pro-Putin Facebook network is pumping French-language propaganda into Africa. The pages promote Russia’s line on the war in Ukraine to more than four million followers... ~tech social media facebook Article 2050 words, published Aug 3 2023 40 votes
US President Joe Biden's IRA shuts Africa out of critical minerals supply chains ~misc politics Article 958 words 6 votes
AI often mangles African languages. A network of thousands of coders and researchers is working to develop translation tools that understand their native languages ~tech Link 17 votes
The campaign in the desert of North Africa in 1940-1943 mapped ~humanities.history Video 21:02 7 votes
Displaced Congolese on the M23 conflict and the need for peace ~life Article 1444 words, published Mar 13 2023 6 votes
Rocking Africa together: Triller & Boomplay are partnering to showcase Africa to the world ~music Article 988 words, published Jan 26 2022 4 votes
Megalopolis: How coastal west Africa will shape the coming century ~life Article 4597 words, published Oct 27 2022 8 votes
FIFA president: More World Cups could save African migrants from death in the sea ~sports.football Article 426 words 7 votes
The Invisible Wall - Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the EU has created a shadow immigration system that captures, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias ~misc politics Link 10 votes
African researchers say they face bias in the world of science. Here's one solution ~science Article 1158 words 6 votes
We infiltrated a counterfeit check ring! Now what? ~finance Article 1436 words, published Jun 30 2021 12 votes
How “MobileAid” and machine learning-based targeting can complement existing social protection programs ~finance Article 2439 words, published Apr 13 2021 4 votes
What each nation wanted from the scramble for Africa vs what they got from it ~humanities.history Video 17:03, published Feb 9 2021 3 votes
Seeking to capitalize on a growing population that is increasingly less poor, American and Chinese tech giants clash in Africa ~tech Link 5 votes
A history of Somalia and local piracy: How do pirates exist in the 21st century? ~humanities.history Video 24:03, published Feb 12 2021 3 votes
Teachers in Africa are using radio to keep remote learning affordable and accessible, since many households have no access to internet or a computer ~tech Article 1836 words 7 votes
Lake Kivu is one of Africa's strangest bodies of water, with dense depths packed with methane and carbon dioxide gas ~science Article 1590 words 8 votes
Silicon Valley has deep pockets for African startups – if you’re not African ~tech Article 1779 words, published Jul 17 2020 10 votes
It's hard economics, not symbols, that will make the difference for black people ~humanities Article 1747 words, published Jun 28 2020 11 votes
The African continent is very slowly peeling apart. Scientists say a new ocean is being born ~science Article 898 words 7 votes
The last giraffes on earth - The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think ~science biology Article published Apr 17 2020 7 votes
Why Ethiopia has unusual potential to be a local power ~misc politics Video 14:26, published Jul 8 2020 7 votes
Why are Africa's coronavirus successes being overlooked? Examples of innovation aren’t getting the fanfare they would do if they emerged from Europe or the US ~health Article 843 words 6 votes