Living in a drought and famine ravaged region, Kenya’s Turkana people are evolving to thrive on a diet that would make other people sick!

1/3: Robots are learning to make babies. Over the past three years, at least 20 babies have been born following automated in vitro fertilisation, where AI software selects the strongest sperm and a robot arm fertilises the egg with little human involvement.

President Samia Suluhu Hassan has ushered in a new era of authoritarianism, and in key ways more autocratic than her predecessor Magufuli. She has crossed autocratic thresholds that haven’t been breached since Tanzania’s transition to multipartyism in 1992.

President Samia Suluhu Hassan has ushered in a new era of authoritarianism, and in key ways more autocratic than her predecessor Magufuli. She has crossed autocratic thresholds that haven’t been breached since Tanzania’s transition to multipartyism in 1992.

China targets Gen Z, millennials in new digital strategy to build its “soft power” brand in Africa.

Ethiopia broke ground on its first oil refinery, a $2.5-billion project with capacity to produce 3.5 million tons of fuel a year. To be constructed in two phases, the first phase expected to be completed within 24 months.

Gen Z WORLD PROTESTS DASHBOARD 1/5: MOROCCO: Anti-government protests driven by frustration over lavish spending on the 2030 World Cup at the expense of public services like education and healthcare, leading to fatalities and arrests🧵

After three consecutive drought years, villagers in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria accused rainmaker Solomon Oture of withholding rain through malicious spells. They buried him alive!

Tunisia shaken after court sentences 56-year-old man TO DEATH over posts on Facebook account that criticised Tunisian autocratic President Kaïs Saied. President Kaïs was once widely considered a democrat emerging from the Arab Spring's legacy – then he got the throne and became Saied The Terrible.

Namibian First Grade teacher speaks out after video of her singing “These Are My Private Parts” [Don’t touch them] song to students goes viral. It has now amassed 16.8 MILLION views.

As visa crackdowns and diplomatic tensions block traditional study-abroad routes, India’s Leverage Edu is helping students reroute their dreams — from Canada to Germany, and from India to Nigeria and Saudi Arabia.

Young entrepreneur builds 300 incredible homes out of surprising material: compressed bricks of waste organic matter. Initially, this matter was sawdust, but he has since moved to rice husks. About 40% of the bricks are composed of clay, cement, and glue.

New map of Nigerian languages released. OVER 520 INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES are spoken across the country’s 36 states😳😳😳 Out here we hear only about Yoruba, Igbo, Fulani, Hausa…the things we don’t know!

Electricty imports from Ethiopia save Kenya from South Africa-style power rationing and blackouts.

In China, a “flying motorcycle” is available for preorder, and tech enthusiasts are scrambling to get in line. It charges like an electric vehicle, and offers 200Km (124 miles) of range. It will set you back by $69,737!, CarNewsChina reports.

In the small village of Klütz, Germany, in 1822 a stork landed with an African spear lodged in its neck. The stork had been shot in Central Africa and yet, against all odds, it still managed to fly thousands of miles back with the weapon embedded in its body.

The US and China owe the most to the regular United Nations budget. www.cfr.org/article/un80...

Ethiopia becomes latest country to crack down on epidemic of honorary doctorates. Africa probably now has more honorary doctorates, than the real thing. It’s a clown show.

Africa too can get rich, as once-poor Asian countries have, but not if governments keep doing what they’ve been doing.

Out of every $1,000 spent on global transfers, just 76 cents makes its way back to African clubs.

The Seychelles presidential election will go to an Oct.9-11 runoff between opposition leader Patrick Herminie and incumbent President Wavel Ramkalawan after no clear winner emerged in the first round of voting.

Protests as Morocco to spend between US$2Bn and $5Bn billion on stadiums and infrastructure for the 2030 World Cup, including a new 115,000-seat stadium near Casablanca. By contrast, the government’s annual health budget for 2025 is about $3.2Bn.

Nearly 80% of riders failed to finish the bruising, lung-busting UCI World Cycling championship race for the rainbow bands in Kigali, Rwanda, the first held in Africa, making it the “hardest edition of the Century.”

These unexpected trees in Kenya have stunned researchers by not only providing sweet fruit, but also fighting the changing climate by turning carbon into stone!

Lithuania’s capital Vilnius debuts new zero-emissions electric ferryboat for transit up and down the River Neris. 80% of the boat is covered in solar panels, and it offers free Wi-Fi to passengers.

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni, who is seeking a 9th term in office (2 of them unelected) says he will grow the country’s economy at a rate that no other has ever achieved in modern history – from $66Bn to $500 Billion in 5 years 1/6 www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/eas...

Nearly two-thirds of women who seek abortion care in Uganda are married – and many are over 40, a trend that has surprised health workers. “We thought abortions were mainly among teenagers”, doctor says.

The world needs peasants. Far from being a relic of the past, peasants are vital to feeding the world. They need to be supported, not marginalised.

The Sahel is no longer a chessboard on which the struggles between the West and Russia play out. Now two North African powers, Algeria and Morocco, are both seeking to fill the power vacuum that has emerged in the region that was for long a theater for global superpower rivalry.

More than 80 buffaloes drown in Namibia after falling off cliff. They were being chased by lions. Hundreds of buffaloes have been killed in similar circumstances in the past. In one of the worst cases, around 400 died in 2018.

Uganda’s long-time leader, Yoweri Museveni, 81, and in power for 40 years, officially launched his bid for re-election. Because he magically “wins” all elections, he will likely get to rule for 45 years – and possibly 50 when he runs again in 2031.

The Laetoli footprints were unearthed in 1978 in northern Tanzania, perfectly preserved in volcanic ash for 3.6 million years, by a team led by the legendary paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey. The find was nothing short of a scientific earthquake.

“I felt powerless”: In Kenya’s newsrooms, young women face sexual harassment – and perpetrators often go unpunished. 42% of women surveyed said they were first harassed during their time as interns.

Floods force 100,000 out of their homes – and the water is still rising in Burundi’s commercial capital Bujumbura. The first signs of catastrophe are found in abandoned hotel and mansions, where lake water has soaked into the lower floors and laps through car parks.

Kenyan and South African startups attract bulk of fresh venture capital (VC) to Africa this year - 78% of the total $2.2 billion raised across Africa, doubling the volume recorded over the same period in 2024. In all East African raised $865 million and Southern Africa $845 million.

Chimps consume the equivalent of more than 2 alcoholic drinks a day in the form of boozy fruit, research finds. Given that chimpanzees and humans share a lot of genetics & evolutionary history, this supports the idea that our attraction to alcohol may date far back in time.

Kenyan athlete captured in Ukraine fighting for Russia, says he went to Russia as a tourist and was then tricked into signing a contract with the country’s army.

As AI capabilities improve, users in wealthy regions collaborate more with AI –across education, science, and business - while those in emerging economies (including much of Africa) just delegate complete tasks (like coding) to it.

China has 40,000 km of HIGH-SPEED RAIL network, the longest in the world by far. China's total functioning railway network (including standard gauge) is 162,000 km. This exceeds Africa's COMBINED 80,000–90,000 km functioning railway network.

4-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, Remco Evenepoel, and Chloé Dygert among the cycling superstars who will stamp their passports in Rwanda this week for the UCI Road World Championships.

Senegal President Bassirou Faye was swept to power in March 2024 as a progressive and reformer. The once-opposition leaders accused their predecessors of suppressing freedom of expression – now they’ve turned into the new oppressors!

Kenya’s international school sector is thriving, with over 60 schools now operating, up from just a few a decade ago. This growth is driven by a surge in expatriates the UN’s upcoming move to Nairobi by 2026🧵

How schoolchildren and herdsmen helped build Africa’s largest people’s project in Ethiopia.

Billions of dollars in public funds stolen over the past decade in massive govt corruption in South Sudan while the vast majority of the country suffers food insecurity. Also $1.7Bn unaccounted for from the oil-for-roads program, which has resulted in 95% of required roads remaining unbuilt.

Cancer and heart disease death rates have declined in 150 countries since 2010, says The Lancet study. In Africa, reductions were moderate to significant in Egypt, South Africa, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.

In North Kivu and Ituri, DR Congo intelligence service (ANR), the army, and Wazalendo militias have launched raids targeting Maasai itinerant vendors. These Maasai vendors are from Kenya and Tanzania.

US President Trump boasts about ending war between Azerbaijan and Albania – two countries don’t even have a war. Trump likely meant to say Armenia, with which Azerbaijan engaged in a bloody conflict for decades.

Alphonce Felix Simbu makes history by becoming the first Tanzanian to win a global event gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.

The Museveni and Nguema dynasties: Africa's strongmen groom children yet won't let go.

Too much twerk: How “Dior parties” - of young women dancing in colourful boubou gowns dancing “provocatively - are causing a scandal in West Africa, as they explode.