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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.

The Conversation

'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

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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

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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.

Radio France Internationale

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…

The Conversation

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…

Benzinga

‘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

The Guardian - 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 Independent 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

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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).

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The Guardian - UK

Africa aims to lift standards and retain talent after Club World Cup wipeout

Fifpro Africa general secretary Kgosana Masaseng wants a reaction after all four sides from the continent made an early exit

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

International Business Times

Green Bonds Offer Hope, And Risk, In Africa's Climate Fight

It only took two days for Nigeria to raise $59 million through green bonds -- part of a funding drive for climate and environmental projects in a nation still hooked on oil.

International Business Times

Game 'Reloots' African Artefacts From Western Museums

Under the cover of darkness, Nomali jumped over a wall, burst into a museum and snatched a human skull from a pedestal before escaping through a window to the wail of an alarm.

International Business Times

Dying Breed: Tunisian Dog Lovers Push To Save Age-old Desert Hound

Nemcha, Zina and Zouina, three North African Sloughi hounds, play on the beach in Tunisia where their ancestors have long roamed desert plains, seemingly unaware of the existential threat to their dwindling breed.

The Independent UK

Fusion between culture and modernity as children dance in Kenya’s refugee camp

Kenya's northern Kakuma refugee camp is home to more than 300,000 people fleeing conflict from dozens of east Africa countries

International Business Times

From Orphanage to Business School: How LivingStone International University Helped Shape a Life of Purpose

LivingStone International University (LIU), a small private non-profit Christian university established in 2012, aims to transform Africa through Christ-centered higher education.

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