Kenyan writer, Dennis Mugaa, describes his experience participating in the anti-finance protests in the first few months of 2024. Our #LatestOnline republic.com.ng/october-novemb…

African countries queued up “in a corridor” in Washington to ask the IMF for loans, Kenyan Finance Minister John Mbadi revealed, adding that he felt embarrassed and demeaned. “Then you’re called in one by one: Nigeria! Rwanda!”

"Today 770mn Africans live in countries where interest payments exceed spending on basic healthcare. To move forward with new investment and new funding, there must be a reckoning with the financial legacy of the last 20 years."

Ethiopia Electric Power (EEP) has already made $55m in less than a year from power-purchase agreements with bitcoin miners. It expects to earn at least $123m in 12 months from September 2024 as more bitcoin miners come online. All the while, the use of cryptocurrency in the

Julius Nyerere’s evergreen observation: “The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.” h/t Africa Is a Country

Two years after the northern Ethiopia war ended, survivors of atrocities in Tigray - and elsewhere - feel forgotten and are asking if there will ever be accountability. My report from Axum and Mahbere Dego. theguardian.com/global-develop…

"When you try to take discretion out of a govt system that's when you find out where the dragons are"

Relatable

When Ugandan President Museveni handed out military medals earlier this year, the highest honor went to Sheikh Mohammed Bin Maktoum Bin Juma Al Maktoum, a senior member of the U.A.E’s royal family, and the first ever foreigner to receive it. msn.com/en-us/money/ma…

Two 60m-wide buildings can be seen sitting on a tarmac..which could be a hangar to accommodate the Indian navy’s P-8I aircraft..a Boeing 737 modified to hunt and potentially attack submarines bbc.com/news/articles/…

Bees help tackle elephant-human conflict in Kenya AFP News Agency phys.org/news/2024-11-b… via Phys.org

Mauritius Opposition Claims Clean-sweep Election Triumph barrons.com/news/mauritius…

As the clock ticks down to Somaliland's election, the breakaway region of Somalia changes colour every day as parties take turns to stage campaign rallies kaabtv.com/a-riot-of-colo… Somaliland is centre of dangerous tussle between Somalia&Ethiopia barrons.com/news/somalilan…

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1000s of GM mosquitos being released every week in Djibouti as the tiny Horn of Africa state experiments against an unprecedented malaria surge. Africa faces a major threat from Anopheles stephensi, a mosquito that likes urban areas & immune to insecticide barrons.com/news/djibouti-…

Veteran Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye appears in a military court in Kampala after his reported abduction in neighbouring Kenya at the weekend youtube.com/watch?v=YmWdQd…

"In 2010, I returned to Zambia and found that the national accounts now were prepared by one man alone" How Much Should We Trust Developing Country GDP? open.substack.com/pub/globaldev/…