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Visiting the historical site of the capital of the #KingdomofKongo

Location: Mbanza Kongo 📍

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South Africa 🇿🇦 Springbok women beat Brazil 🇧🇷 women by a whopping 66-6 at the Women's Rugby World Cup in the UK this week.

An amazing win for the girls! #WomensRugbyWorldCup

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Interesting that majority African countries are on top. Worse living conditions (so they say), lack of access to clean water, poorer health care, but way higher fertility than the rest of the world. Why?

[Global Statistics @Globalstats11]

📊 World Fertility Rate by All Countries

🇳🇪 Niger - 6.73
🇦🇴 Angola - 5.76
🇨🇩 DR Congo - 5.56
🇲🇱 Mali - 5.45
🇧🇯 Benin - 5.39
🇹🇩 Chad - 5.35
🇺🇬 Uganda - 5.26
🇸🇴 Somalia - 5.22
🇸🇸 South Sudan - 5.20
🇧🇮 Burundi - 4.96
🇬🇳 Guinea - 4.82
🇲🇿 Mozambique - 4.74
🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau - 4.65
🇳🇬 Nigeria - 4.57
🇸🇩 Sudan - 4.54
🇦🇫 Afghanistan - 4.53
🇨🇲 Cameroon - 4.50
🇿🇲 Zambia - 4.49
🇹🇿 Tanzania - 4.33
🇹🇬 Togo - 4.18
🇸🇳 Senegal - 4.17
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso - 4.14
🇱🇷 Liberia - 4.03
🇪🇹 Ethiopia - 3.92
🇨🇬 Republic of the Congo - 3.86
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea - 3.85
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone - 3.71
🇬🇲 Gambia - 3.66
🇬🇭 Ghana - 3.61
🇹🇯 Tajikistan - 3.60
🇲🇬 Madagascar - 3.55
🇵🇸 Palestine - 3.54
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe - 3.51
🇪🇷 Eritrea - 3.50
🇨🇮 Ivory Coast - 3.47
🇲🇷 Mauritania - 3.46
🇵🇰 Pakistan - 3.39
🇲🇼 Malawi - 3.30
🇬🇦 Gabon - 3.26
🇰🇪 Kenya - 3.23
🇷🇼 Rwanda - 3.23
🇮🇶 Iraq - 3.17
🇱🇾 Libya - 3.04
🇩🇿 Algeria - 2.97
🇮🇱 Israel - 2.94
🇳🇦 Namibia - 2.94
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan - 2.92
🇾🇪 Yemen - 2.91
🇯🇴 Jordan - 2.91
🇱🇸 Lesotho - 2.88
🇹🇻 Tuvalu - 2.81
🇵🇭 Philippines - 2.77
🇪🇬 Egypt - 2.76
🇬🇺 Guam - 2.76
🇸🇾 Syria - 2.74
🇲🇭 Marshall Islands - 2.72
🇹🇴 Tonga - 2.70
🇰🇲 Comoros - 2.69
🇴🇲 Oman - 2.67
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan - 2.59
🇻🇺 Vanuatu - 2.59
🇳🇷 Nauru - 2.58
🇬🇹 Guatemala - 2.57
🇭🇹 Haiti - 2.49
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan - 2.47
🇸🇿 Eswatini - 2.41
🇭🇳 Honduras - 2.37
🇵🇦 Panama - 2.37
🇧🇼 Botswana - 2.37
🇼🇸 Samoa - 2.37
🇿🇦 South Africa - 2.31
🇱🇦 Laos - 2.30
🇲🇦 Morocco - 2.27
🇧🇴 Bolivia - 2.26
🇪🇨 Ecuador - 2.24
🇫🇯 Fiji - 2.23
🇰🇼 Kuwait - 2.22
🇫🇲 Micronesia - 2.22
🇻🇪 Venezuela - 2.20
🇰🇭 Cambodia - 2.20
🇵🇪 Peru - 2.18
🇰🇮 Kiribati - 2.18
🇦🇷 Argentina - 2.17
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka - 2.14
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic - 2.13
🇩🇯 Djibouti - 2.13
🇦🇸 American Samoa - 2.13
🇨🇻 Cape Verde - 2.11
🇧🇩 Bangladesh - 2.08
🇧🇿 Belize - 2.08
🇮🇳 India - 2.07
🇬🇾 Guyana - 2.06
🇯🇲 Jamaica - 2.05
🇻🇳 Vietnam - 2.04
🇸🇻 El Salvador - 2.04
🇨🇰 Cook Islands - 2.04
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan - 2.03
🇩🇲 Dominica - 2.01
🇲🇲 Myanmar - 2.00
🇮🇩 Indonesia - 1.99
🇺🇸 United States Virgin Islands - 1.98
🇸🇽 Sint Maarten - 1.98
🇨🇼 Curacao - 1.97
🇹🇳 Tunisia - 1.96
🇬🇪 Georgia - 1.96
🇮🇸 Iceland - 1.95
🇨🇴 Colombia - 1.94
🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda - 1.94
🇮🇷 Iran - 1.92
🇬🇩 Grenada - 1.92
🇹🇷 Turkey - 1.91
🇸🇷 Suriname - 1.91
🇫🇷 France - 1.90
🇶🇦 Qatar - 1.90
🇬🇱 Greenland - 1.90
🇬🇮 Gibraltar - 1.90
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia - 1.89
🇲🇳 Mongolia - 1.89
🇧🇲 Bermuda - 1.89
🇳🇵 Nepal - 1.88
🇵🇾 Paraguay - 1.88
🇮🇲 Isle of Man - 1.88
🇳🇿 New Zealand - 1.86
🇳🇮 Nicaragua - 1.85
🇺🇸 United States ( USA ) - 1.84
🇰🇵 North Korea - 1.82
🇦🇼 Aruba -1.82
🇰🇾 Cayman Islands - 1.82
🇲🇪 Montenegro - 1.81
🇸🇨 Seychelles - 1.81
🇲🇫 Saint Martin - 1.80
🇧🇪 Belgium - 1.77
🇩🇰 Denmark - 1.77
🇧🇹 Bhutan - 1.77
🇧🇷 Brazil - 1.75
🇨🇱 Chile - 1.75
🇺🇾 Uruguay - 1.75
🇲🇾 Malaysia - 1.74
🇨🇿 Czech Republic - 1.74
🇫🇮 Finland - 1.74
🇧🇳 Brunei - 1.74
🇲🇽 Mexico - 1.73
🇦🇺 Australia - 1.73
🇮🇪 Ireland - 1.72
🇱🇨 Saint Lucia - 1.72
🇦🇮 Anguilla - 1.72
🇨🇺 Cuba - 1.71
🇱🇧 Lebanon - 1.71
🇲🇻 Maldives - 1.70
🇧🇧 Barbados - 1.70
🇵🇼 Palau - 1.70
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan - 1.69
🇸🇪 Sweden - 1.67
🇧🇭 Bahrain - 1.66
🇯🇪 Jersey - 1.66
🇦🇲 Armenia - 1.65
🇬🇧 United Kingdom - 1.63
🇷🇴 Romania - 1.63
🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago - 1.63
🇱🇺 Luxembourg - 1.63
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates - 1.62
🇪🇪 Estonia - 1.62
🇳🇱 Netherlands - 1.61
🇱🇹 Lithuania - 1.61
🇸🇰 Slovakia - 1.60
🇸🇮 Slovenia - 1.60
🇭🇺 Hungary - 1.59
🇨🇭 Switzerland - 1.59
🇬🇬 Guernsey - 1.59
🇩🇪 Germany - 1.58
🇨🇦 Canada - 1.57
🇳🇴 Norway - 1.57
🇦🇱 Albania - 1.55
🇱🇻 Latvia - 1.55
🇹🇭 Thailand - 1.54
🇲🇨 Monaco - 1.53
🇷🇺 Russia - 1.51
🇦🇹 Austria - 1.51
🇧🇬 Bulgaria - 1.51
🇲🇹 Malta - 1.51
🇨🇾 Cyprus - 1.48
🇷🇸 Serbia - 1.46
🇭🇷 Croatia - 1.46
🇦🇩 Andorra - 1.46
🇨🇳 China - 1.45
🇧🇾 Belarus - 1.45
🇵🇹 Portugal - 1.44
🇧🇸 Bahamas - 1.44
🇬🇷 Greece - 1.40
🇨🇷 Costa Rica - 1.40
🇯🇵 Japan - 1.39
🇲🇺 Mauritius - 1.35
🇲🇸 Montserrat - 1.32
🇵🇱 Poland - 1.31
🇪🇸 Spain - 1.29
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico - 1.25
🇲🇩 Moldova - 1.25
🇮🇹 Italy - 1.24
🇭🇰 Hong Kong - 1.23
🇲🇴 Macau - 1.23
🇺🇦 Ukraine - 1.22
🇸🇬 Singapore - 1.17
🇰🇷 South Korea - 1.11
🇹🇼 Taiwan - 1.09

Source: World Population Review 2023

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Did you know? | The country ‘Burkina Faso’ name has a beautiful meaning combining two languages:

“Burkina” (Mossi), meaning upright / honest people

and “Faso” (Dioula) meaning fatherland / homeland

The country name means “Land of Upright People.”💚

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@Angolans

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Visiting the historical site of the capital of the #KingdomofKongo

Location: Mbanza Kongo 📍

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Sorry we’ve been gone for a while. Sometimes it’s necessary to take a step back for redirection. We’re back with more insightful, knowledgeable Africa content!

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Congo DRC & Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 signed a ceasefire in Doha in July.

Talks on the implementation of this agreement were meant conclude by the 18th August, which it has not.

M23 claim that the agreement left out key issues that “still need to be addressed”.

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Berber men play hockey.

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If you are based in London, please feel free to attend.

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Fearing for your safety from rebels and prisons being broken into, sleeping and waking up to artillery fire.

The realities of the people in the east of Congo are beyond our imagination.

Global intervention is needed to stop Rwanda-backed M23.
#PrayForGOMA

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Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger expressed their intent to withdraw from the ECOWAS in Jan 2024, due to dissatisfaction with the bloc’s approach to political uproar, particularly military coups.

Exit was approved in December, scheduled for their departure on January 29, 2025.

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Doops Hair Studio is offering Free Haircare for Black and Mixed children in care.

🗓️ 20th February
⏰ 10am - 4pm
📍 Leicester, Afro-Caribbean Centre

for children ages 5-18.

Please share to reach the right people!

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A different level of strength and agility

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Man, Africans are built different.

I was so anxious watching this Beninese ninja casually climb the pole without a harness

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CONGO 🇨🇩 : The new hospital inaugurated by Félix TSHISEKEDI, whilst Burkina Faso, which is significantly poorer, is about to unveil the biggest hospital in West Africa , with 500 beds, in less than 8 weeks.

Congo deserves a lot better.

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🇳🇬 Who are the fertility scammers targeting Nigerian women desperate for motherhood - and fuelling an underground trade in babies?

#BBCAfricaEye goes undercover to investigate.

📽️ Watch the full documentary here: https://t.co/CGlP4QFklX

#CrypticPregnancy

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Will Frelimo listen to the voice of the people and welcome a recount? Either way, the opportunity should be given for the people to ensure democracy is upheld, with the absence of doubt. #MozambiqueElections #MozambiqueProtests

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Why are the people in Mozambique protesting? 🇲🇿

Read about the Maputo protests #MozambiqueElections https://t.co/6CyWmwJyX2

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