Africa

5+ hour, 38+ min ago   (322+ words) Claim: A Facebook user shared an aerial image of an urban area and a major highway, and claimed it was taken in Sierra Leone. A Facebook user, BORN 2 BLOG, shared an aerial image (archived here) showing the skyline of a…...

8+ min ago   (500+ words) Home » Morocco » Morocco Marks 28th Anniversary of King Hassan II’s Death The Late King Hassan II. Credit: MWN Design Team. Agadir – Morocco today marks the 28th anniversary of the death of King Hassan II, recalling the late monarch’s legacy and his role…...

1+ hour, 35+ min ago   (1265+ words) Kano-based academic Prof Ibrahim Bello-Kano popularly known as IBK has criticised a recent comment describing business mogul Aliko Dangote as a “disciplined Fulani,” arguing that the description reflects a misunderstanding of Kano’s history, ethnic identity and the background of the…...

6+ hour, 1+ min ago   (442+ words) Heavy overnight rainfall has caused major rivers in Kasese District to swell, with River Nyamwamba bursting its banks and flooding communities in parts of Kasese Municipality. The flooding has renewed concerns about the district's preparedness for heavier rainfall during the…...

7+ hour, 1+ min ago   (526+ words) The Lagos State Government has directed residents of riverine and flood-prone communities to relocate to higher ground following a severe NiHSA flood alert. The official alert, designated NFA-2026-2022, covers the period from September 19 to September 25, 2026, and places Lagos among 15 states…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (301+ words) “What Soludo did last week in Anambra State is comparable to damnatio memoriae. Just as Brutus stabbed Caesar under the guise of “doing it for the republic” and administrative duty, on the on-going loan brouhaha, Soludo is Brutus and Caracalla…...

8+ hour, 16+ min ago   (944+ words) Archaeologists dated a ditch-and-rampart system at Oued Beht in Morocco to 3,500–4,000 years ago. Here is what it reveals about a changing North African settlement. At Oued Beht in Morocco, archaeologists have dated a ditch and rampart to roughly 3,500–4,000 years ago....

8+ hour, 46+ min ago   (1368+ words) On 4 September, the UN General Assembly adopted an African proposal for a new world map, which shows countries’ true size relative to one another. It aims to correct the view of the world shaped by the widely used world map…...

9+ hour, 8+ min ago   (980+ words) NEW YORK — Maps. Where would we be without them? And how would we even know? They can anchor us in a place or help us get some­where else. They can show us global polit­ical real­it­ies via…...

9+ hour, 15+ min ago   (618+ words) For generations, millions of people have looked at world maps that make Africa appear smaller than it really is. A recent United Nations (UN) resolution has put that distortion under fresh scrutiny and sparked debate about how the world should…...