Dramatic images show the first floods in the Sahara in half a century ~enviro climate change Article 379 words 10 votes
Roads in Africa are among world’s deadliest despite few cars ~transport Article 546 words, published Oct 2 2024 9 votes
Parts of the Sahara Desert are turning green amid an influx of heavy rainfall ~enviro climate change Article 748 words 22 votes
World Health Organization declares mpox outbreaks in Africa a global health emergency as a new form of the virus spreads ~health medicine Article 975 words 44 votes
Lethal outbreak of new mpox strain erupts in central Africa ~health medicine Article 77 words 15 votes
Meet Mercy and Anita – the African workers driving the AI revolution, for just over a dollar an hour ~tech social media Article 2601 words 18 votes
Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial of African women ~science medicine Article 77 words 29 votes
South Africa recalls cough syrup sold in at least six countries ~health medicine Article 255 words 7 votes
Scientists discover hundreds of unique species in Africa’s newest ecoregion ~enviro Article 951 words 11 votes
‘God has a new Africa’: undercover in a US-led anti-LGBT ‘hate movement’ ~humanities religion Link 17 votes
How a solar revolution in farming is depleting world’s groundwater ~enviro water.ground energy.renewable Article 2371 words 16 votes
Internet outage hits several African countries as undersea cables fail ~tech internet Article 333 words 29 votes
The end of Françafrique? Festering resentment of French neocolonialism is motivating a backlash against Paris across West Africa. ~misc politics Article 1793 words 11 votes
How the UN is holding back the Sahara desert ~enviro water.ground Video 11:57, published Feb 18 2024 8 votes
New Grammy category for African music: nominations ignore almost all of Africa ~music Article 1222 words 13 votes
Frantz Fanon’s enduring legacy – The post-colonial thinker’s seminal book, “The Wretched of the Earth,” described political oppression in psychological terms ~humanities philosophy Article 3101 words, published Nov 24 2021 11 votes
The first results from the world’s biggest basic income experiment ~finance Article 1358 words 49 votes
AI was asked to create images of Black African docs treating white kids. How'd it go? ~tech Article 1491 words, published Oct 6 2023 31 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