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Natural World Heritage sites under growing threat, but bright spots remain

Botswana’s fertile Okavango Delta is one of the last remaining high-biodiversity ecosystems in the world, home to cheetahs, African wild dogs, baobab trees, crocodiles, termites and owls that catch fish. Roughly the size of the state of Connecticut, the freshwater Okavango Delta opens into an enormous alluvial fan that stretches…

The Conversation · Oct 11, 2025

Land Rights Defenders Inc. on Indigenous Wisdom and the Future of Land Rights in Africa

Through Land Rights Defenders Inc. (LRDI), founder Nana Kwesi Osei Bonsu fosters dialogue on how Indigenous wisdom can reshape modern land stewardship and tenure practices.

International Business Times · Oct 10, 2025

Why it’s worth taking a wider look at biarchal cultures

Letter: In places such as Canada, the US, parts of Africa, southern India and Polynesia, biarchal traditions are almost within living memory, says Simon Dawson

The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2025

What is bluetoothing? Dangerous new drug trend that may be driving a global HIV surge

Method has become popular among drug users in poverty-stricken areas of Africa and Pacific areas

The Independent UK · Oct 9, 2025

Ethiopia has struggled to build national unity: can its big new dam deliver it?

The formal launch of Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in September 2025 made news across the world. There was pomp and ceremony as Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam was officially inaugurated after 14 years and US$5 billion worth of project work.

The Conversation · Oct 8, 2025

‘This is a west African story’: how modern art tackled Nigeria’s identity crisis

As the landmark Nigerian Modernism exhibition opens at the Tate, curator Osei Bonsu talks about the art in dialogue with ideas of nation-making

The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2025

Chad ends Harry charity mandates to manage wildlife reserves

African Parks managed 22 national parks and protected areas across 12 countries, including two wildlife reserves in Chad.

Evening Standard · Oct 7, 2025

"There were times recording Rosanna – and Africa, too – where we literally had one spare track. Just the one!”: Toto’s Steve Porcaro on the perils of recording live to analogue tape, and what happened if you were the one who messed up the crucial take

“We were debating whether we needed to do another guitar take. ‘Are you really sure we need another take? That last one was pretty good. If we punch in, we’re going to lose that one’”

MusicRadar · Oct 7, 2025

Africa’s ‘great green wall’ is stalling: in Senegal very few planted areas show progress

Africa’s Great Green Wall project began as an ambitious plan to build a 15-kilometre-wide band of trees across the north of Africa. The African Union launched the project in 2007 with plans for the trees to extend for 6,000 kilometres through 11 countries in the Sahel, restoring 100 million hectares…

The Conversation · Oct 7, 2025

Chinese companies are changing the way they operate in Africa: here’s how

For most of the past 25 years, Chinese construction companies operating in Africa could count on generous financial backing from Chinese banks. Between 2000 and 2019, Chinese funders committed almost US$50 billion to African transport projects. Most came from Chinese development finance institutions.

The Conversation · Oct 7, 2025