Security agencies in #Nigeria must treat social media as a terrorist organisation.

Tembe Elephant Park, Emangusi, South Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUJbDTIYlM4

Thousands of families have arrived injured and with no food or water in the town of Tawila after journeys of up to 70km on foot to flee attacks in #sudan ’s Zamzam and Al Shouk camps.

Save the Children staff in Tawila said many of the new arrivals reported witnessing or experiencing horrific physical violence with some #children separated from their parents in the chaos. #ihl #warcrimes #africa

Report: reliefweb OCHA / Save the Children APR-16

https://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/families-fleeing-attacks-sudans-zamzam-camp-arrive-injured-traumatised-nothing-eat-save-children

Laikipia County, Kenya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8xVFhgEv6Q

#Garfield #music #Africa
#bot #lyrics

Olifants River, Emangusi, South Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NXaovxB-Bk

Kenya: quatre personnes arrêtées pour trafic de fourmis

Quatre personnes ont été arrêtées pour avoir tenté d’exporter illégalement plusieurs milliers de fourmis vivantes pour les vendre à des collectionneurs en Europe ou Asie.
https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20250416-kenya-quatre-personnes-arr%C3%AAt%C3%A9es-pour-trafic-de-fourmis

ICYMI: Instead of another dystopian future, this TED-Ed #animation shows an optimistic vision of 2125. It imagines cities where public transit and urban farms replace highways, mangroves protect restored coastlines, and mushrooms clean polluted soil.

Based on the "solarpunk" movement, it demonstrates how existing technologies in #LosAngeles, #Lagos, and #SãoPaulo could create sustainable urban environments where #nature, #technology, and humans thrive together.

Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/earth-2125-what-if-the-future-was-awesome

The African Union, European Union, UK, France and Germany agreed Tuesday on the urgency of decisive efforts to resolve the #sudan conflict, calling on the warring parties to take concrete and immediate action to respect international humanitarian law #ihl

In a joint statement following a meeting in #london they reiterated their strong commitment to the sovereignty, unity, independence and territorial integrity of Sudan.

#africa #news #politics

Report: Anadolu

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/economy/uk-conference-agrees-on-urgency-of-decisive-efforts-to-resolve-sudan-conflict/3539455

Comment | A buoyant art scene—and an exciting new generation of artists—mean this could be ‘the African century’ https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/16/comment-%7C-A-buoyant-art-sceneand-an-exciting-new-generation-of-artistsmean-this-could-be-the-african-century?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Africa #ContemporaryAfricanArt

Comment | a bouyant art scene—and an exciting new generation of artists—mean this could be the African century https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/16/comment-%7C-a-bouyant-art-sceneand-an-exciting-new-generation-of-artistsmean-this-could-be-the-african-century?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Africa #ContemporaryAfricanArt

Climate change costing Africa $15bn annually — AfDB president

President of African Development Bank Dr Akinwumi Adesina has disclosed that the African continent loses between $7-15 billion a year due to climate change, adding that if the current trend continues, it will rise to $50 billion by 2050

https://dailytrust.com/climate-change-costing-africa-15bn-annually-afdb-president/

Laikipia County, Kenya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8xVFhgEv6Q

Cape Town’s water recycling project should not be privatised https://groundup.org.za/article/cape-towns-water-supply-shouldnt-be-privatised/

Did you know that a new kind of pre-historic African has just dropped?

In modern-day Libya, two 5000 BCE skeletons of two 40-year-old women have been found that reveal an isolated population of people that has not been categorised yet. They branched off from Sub-Saharan Africans some 50k years ago!

They were pastoralists (an unknown practice in #Africa at the time), had pottery & rock art.

#history #prehistory

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/7000-year-old-skeletons-from-the-green-sahara-reveal-a-previously-unknown-human-lineage-180986403/#:~:text=Two%20of%20the%20skeletons%20were,had%20died%20around%205%2C000%20B.C.E.

Tembe Elephant Park, Emangusi, South Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUJbDTIYlM4

"#Paraquat is still manufactured in the #UK and #China, sprayed across farms in the US, #NZ and #Australia, and exported to parts of #Africa and #LatinAmerica — regions where Parkinson’s rates are now rising sharply.

"paraquat helped drive major profits for its maker, Swiss-based and Chinese-owned...#Syngenta [which in the US and Canada alone] faces thousands of lawsuits from people who say the chemical gave them Parkinson’s"

https://www.politico.eu/article/bas-bloem-parkinsons-pesticides-mptp-glyphosate-paraquat/
#parkinsons #farming #pesticide #usa #canada

Laikipia County, Kenya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyQAB-TKOVA

Instead of another dystopian future, this TED-Ed #animation shows an optimistic vision of 2125. It imagines cities where public transit and urban farms replace highways, mangroves protect restored coastlines, and mushrooms clean polluted soil.

Based on the "solarpunk" movement, it demonstrates how existing technologies in #LosAngeles, #Lagos, and #SãoPaulo could create sustainable urban environments where #nature, #technology, and humans thrive together.

Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/earth-2125-what-if-the-future-was-awesome

https://www.europesays.com/1998507/ How media is used and abused in Israel-Palestine conflict #África #AfricanStudies #ANC #BenGurionUniversityOfTheNegev #Conflicts #Israel #Jewish #JosephGoebbels #KennethMokgatlhe #kgwadi #ma #MembersOfParliament #MiddleEast #Palestine #people #propaganda #SouthAfrica #UnionBuilding