Connecting Africa’s Innovators and Leaders
On April 10, 2025, an unusual aviation incident in South Africa captured global attention. A helicopter crashed during a short flight after a cardboard box carrying an African penguin shifted unexpectedly mid-air. According to the South African Civil Aviation Authority, the penguin, resting on a passenger’s lap in an unsecured container, slid off and interfered … Read more
On April 11, 2025, NPR reported a deeply unsettling trend unfolding along Nigeria’s Lagos Lagoon: thousands of residents have been forcibly evicted over the past decade to clear space for luxury developments. Long-standing communities on the lagoon’s peninsulas and islands—once thriving, self-sustaining, and culturally rich—are now under siege. The Nigerian Navy, in collaboration with government … Read more
In the skies over Kenya’s Rift Valley, a silent extinction looms. The continent’s vultures, long misunderstood and vilified, are rapidly vanishing. With a dramatic 90% decline in populations across West, Central, and East Africa, conservationists are sounding the alarm: save the vultures, or risk ecological collapse. Recent reporting by the Associated Press outlines how these … Read more
The move comes days after its leader and presidential candidate was arrested and charged with treason.
The crime lord was hiding in a forest, authorities say, after dozens were kidnapped from a village.
About one million voters are set to pick their next president from a list of eight hopefuls.
Intense rivalries between supporters of Arsenal, and other English football clubs, has led to deaths in the East African nation.