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Wasted chances to avoid war: The DRC is on the brink of collapse dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-0…

Cries in Kenya 😭 We could have been contenders, but we now excel in malls, gaudy hotels, punishing farmers and small businesses, wannabe designer obsessed arrivistes, “deals” and side chicks 🎊.

.AFIDEP What will be the impact on you of a cancellation of USAID funding? Have you made a statement about it?

What a thrill to hold this month’s issue of National Geographic magazine and open it to see the faces and words of Congolese researchers studying the Congo Basin rainforest splashed across 24 pages of this iconic publication 🌱🌍🔬

Congratulations, Team Addis Standard! 🙌🏿🙌🏿 I am proud of you all! Your unwavering commitment to truth, courage, and integrity has inspired the world. Being named one of ten global finalists for the 2025 One World Media Press Freedom Award is a remarkable testament to your

'The world’s perception of Africa is fragmented — caught between images from charity campaigns, wildlife, Afrobeats, and emerging market potential.' Moky Makura

Straight talk on African elites’ complacency: the case of Kenya: africanistperspective.com/p/straight-tal…

Super proud to contribute to questioning portrayals of Africa with our research - my first collaboration with a political organisation. Actual report (May 26) and then scientific publications (hopefully) to follow. Africanofilter Psychology at Bath semafor.com/article/04/28/…

Policy gaps In #Ethiopia's textile-garment sector; wage reforms needed Industry experts, labour advocates and business leaders in Ethiopia have cautioned that unless critical policy shortcomings and the demand for introducing a national minimum wage in the domestic textile and

'If this young population is not adequately supported, it will result in an irreversible trajectory'. Alarming data on Ethiopia’s human capital. Anyone talking about 'demographic dividends' within several decades is a fantasist on many grounds. addisstandard.com/ethiopias-war-…

'Are Africa’s youth’s aspirations a double-edged sword?' Some interesting observations and suggestions, as ever, from Louise Fox Brookings Global brookings.edu/articles/are-a…

“The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe” available now in South Africa via University of Johannesburg Press - 375 Rand: amazon.co.za/dp/0906785367 UJ Library

Exactly ten years after our briefing note 'Bank to the Future: New era at the AfDB' (another) new era is about to start africaresearchinstitute.org/wordpress/publ…

A reminder that ‘US, China, India can all fit into Africa’; and Greenland is in fact just 7% of the size of Africa. Abimbola Ogundairo Africanofilter is ‘On a quest to fix the world map’ aje.io/ky2obd Al Jazeera English

Excellent: 'Africa's Energy Poverty is an Existential Crisis, by W. Gyude Moore open.substack.com/pub/gyudemoore… h/t Jeffrey Paller

'the 350km ring road linking Bamenda to Kumbo and Wum in Cameroon is the most violent road in west Africa' See 'Highways to hell: west Africa’s road networks are the preferred battleground for terror groups' theconversation.com/highways-to-he…

ICYMI - excellent piece by Zainab Usman 'The End of the Global Aid Industry' foreignaffairs.com/united-states/… Foreign Affairs

⁦Fred Harter⁩ on youth protests in Africa. (Tks for the mention) observer.co.uk/news/internati…