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Triumph Releases 'Factory Custom' Bonneville Bobber, Says Only a Few Will Be Made

The world of custom motorcycles is almost infinite. If you can dream it, you can likely build it. From Suzuki Hayabusa-swapped everythings, custom choppers, kitted-out sportbikes to emulate race bikes, enduro-spec dirt bikes, and tourers to take on the spine of Africa, there's no limit to what you can turn an…

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Baobab is a superfood with growing global demand – that’s bad news for the sacred African tree

Baobab trees grow in arid and semi-arid parts of Africa, and have deep cultural and ecological significance. Some of these trees are thousands of years old. Global demand for baobab products has surged in recent years, driven by the fruit’s nutritional and health benefits.

The Conversation

Young Francophone Africans pack out poetry slams as region’s woes pile up

Resurgence of poetry culture among west African youth amid political instability, economic insecurity and jihadist threat

The Guardian - UK

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Climate information is useful at local level if people get it in good time: how African countries can build systems to share it

African countries collectively have emitted very little of the greenhouse gases that have caused climate change, but are badly affected by climate-induced floods, droughts and heatwaves. To withstand some of the most devastating extreme weather events, African countries need to adapt fast. Setting up advanced climate information services that predict…

The Conversation

US Development Agency Advances Strategic Interests Through Global Projects

President Biden's 3 million pledge for trans-Africa rail project to counter China's influence and advance U.S. foreign policy.

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Five years since its inception, a US development agency competes with China on global projects

Since its inception in 2019, a U.S. development agency has created a portfolio of more than $50 billion worth of projects in 114 countries, including a trans-Africa railway corridor, a power plant in Sierra Leone, and solar panel manufacturing in India

The Independent UK

COP29 failed Africa – what went wrong with the climate financing bid and what happens next

The United Nations’ 29th annual climate change conference of the parties, COP29, ended with countries from the global north committing US$300 billion per year in climate finance to developing countries. This money is meant to pay for developing countries to carry out climate change adaptation and mitigation and move away…

The Conversation

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Sun unleashes surprise X-class solar flare triggering radio blackout over southern Africa (video)

Watch the moment an impulsive X-class solar flare explodes from the sun in a dramatic eruption.

Space

Moroccan Company Develops Mpox Tests Amid African Outbreak

Moldiag in Africa produces mpox tests to combat COVID-19, addressing testing challenges and promoting local manufacturing for public health emergencies.

Top News

A new start after 60: I gave up work – and began travelling the world alone

After 40 years of work, Bally Bhamra went hiking in Nepal. Now 74, she still travels solo across Africa and Asia, staying with local families

The Guardian - UK

Morocco produces Africa’s first mpox tests as the continent tries to rely less on imports

After African countries struggled to get testing kits during the COVID-19 pandemic, officials vowed to make the continent less dependent on imported medical supplies

The Independent UK

Africa’s worsening food crisis – it’s time for an agricultural revolution

Rates of hunger in Africa are unacceptably high and getting worse.

The Conversation

A farming project in South Africa is helping deaf people build skills and find jobs

In South Africa, where the general unemployment rate is over 32%, deaf people face even steeper hurdles

The Independent UK

Congo On Alert Over Mystery Flu-Like Disease Outbreak

Health officials in Africa monitor a mysterious flu-like disease in Congo with 71 deaths. Symptoms include fever, headache, and cough.

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The Conversation

Meet Namibia’s first female president-in-waiting, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (72) is almost guaranteed a place in Namibian history as the first woman to become the president of the southern African nation of three million people.

Space

Satellites find likely cause of mysterious African elephant deaths of 2020

The staggering deaths of over 300 African elephants in early 2020 was most likely due to toxins in water proliferated to exceptional levels by climate extremes, according to a fresh analysis of decade's worth of satellite data.

The Conversation

Ghana heads to the polls: why the economy is the biggest issue for many voters

The outcome and aftermath of Ghana’s 2024 elections will be a key test whether the West African nation can find a balance between the dual objectives of living within its means and achieving economic growth that creates sustainable jobs for its teeming youth.

Medical Daily

Mystery Illness Claims Nearly 150 Lives In Africa, Sparking Pandemic Fears

. Health officials, including those from the WHO, are investing the mysterious illness with flu-like symptoms that killed dozens of people in southwest Congo.

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Bangkok Post

African sex traffickers arrested

Three Africans have been arrested on suspicion of being part of a gang that traffics women from Africa into prostitution in Bangkok.

MusicRadar

“They pick one crisis in one country and they paint the whole of Africa": Fuse ODG, the rapper behind Band Aid’s 40th anniversary controversy, releases his own We Know It's Christmas clapback track

First he persuaded Ed Sheeran to step away from the track. Now he’s made his own answer record to set the story straight

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President Biden Promotes US Investment In Africa

President Biden's Africa trip focused on infrastructure investments, countering China's influence, and strengthening US-Africa relations.

Radio France Internationale

Biden wraps up Angola trip with drought aid and mega railway drive

US President Joe Biden announced more than $1 billion in funding for drought-stricken African nations as he ended his three-day visit to Angola with a summit at the port of Lobito, where a $3 billion railway project aims to connect Angola’s Atlantic coast with Zambia and the Democratic Republic of…

Radio France Internationale

South Africa's G20 presidency set to boost the continent's role on world stage

South Africa says it will use its presidency of the G20 – the first by an African nation – to put the priorities of the African continent onto the agenda of the powerful global economic forum.

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Biden Promotes U.S. Investment In Africa's Lobito Corridor

President Biden highlights Lobito Corridor railway project in Angola to boost regional infrastructure and counter China's influence.

International Business Times

In Angola, Biden Promises To Invest Differently To China

President Joe Biden will make the case on Wednesday in Angola that the United States must do better rather than more than China to regain influence in Africa.

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