Rogue Chiefs

Explaining Africa. How It Works. How It Fails. And How Everything Links Back To Everything Else.

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Africa has a wealth of underrated destinations, and the continent offers so much more beyond your typical Nile River cruise in Egypt or a South African safari. Here are 10 of them
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10 surprising facts on the history of coffee. A most revolutionary crop that would never have ended up in our cups without the mythical berry-chewing Ethiopian goats.
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The Dangote Refinery in Nigeria, which is Africa’s biggest oil refinery and the world’s biggest single-train petroleum facility, is 97% near completion.
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Africa’s annual exports are expected to double to $540 billion by 2030 from a decade earlier, driven by shipments from Nigeria to Asia, and Kenya-Pakistan trade routes
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Number of ranked universities in Africa increases to 97
in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023, up from 71 last year, with 10 of them in the top 500.
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The green turtles of Seychelles – once almost hunted to extinction – are now thriving again thanks to conservation efforts.
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Born in a hut at a refugee camp, these twins & their family made the dangerous journey from Eritrea to Sudan in the early 1980s, surviving landmine explosions and famine. Now based in Los Angeles, Feven and Helena Yohannes are changing the face of beauty.
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New Kenya President William Ruto pledges to end six-year IPO drought with 10 listings. Currently, the bourse has 63 listed stocks with a total market capitalisation of Sh1.9 trillion, of which Safaricom controls 50% market share.
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New malaria vaccine is “world-changing”, say scientists. It’s to be rolled out next year, after trials in Burkina Faso showed it gives up to 80% protection. There are 229 million cases of malaria in the world every year, 94% of them in Africa.
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Most of the water consumed in Somalia is salty, even when it comes from wells. Taking out the salt is expensive, but now a company has cut costs by using solar energy to run its desalination plant.
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Fed up with exchanging sex for fish, the women of Kenya’s Nduru Beach on Lake Victoria decided to own their boats & take over fishing. They formed the “No Sex for Fish” cooperative. They’ve gone through hell, but winners. This is their incredible story.
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Millions of Muslims make pilgrimage to Touba, Senegal. Every year as many as 4 million Muslims make the Grand Magal. In comparison, "only"about 2.5 million undertake the hajj to Mecca in Saudi Arabia each year.
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Kenyan students win $1 million international prize for business innovation. Their Eco-bana start-up makes biodegradable sanitary pads using banana fibre.
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Saharan dust detected over portions of South Florida on Monday, and it's forecast to push into other parts of the Gulf Coast as far west as Texas in the week ahead. These are the unsung globalisation forces and reminders the world is one.
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Ukraine’s secret weapon against Russia: Turkish drones. They’ve appeared in Ethiopia and Libya too. Last year in Ethiopia, as TPLF rebels were bearing down on Addis Ababa, they were repelled with the drones.
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Magawa, the landmine-sniffing Tanzanian hero rat, dies aged 8. Awarded a gold medal for his heroism, over a five-year career, Magawa sniffed out over 100 landmines & other explosives in Cambodia. He passed away peacefully.
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Ballroom Culture in Nigeria Is Being Revived By Queer Youth
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How Rwandan Afro-futurist film “Neptune Frost” costume designer Cedric Mizero sees the future
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University of Oxford appoints Kenyan-born Patricia Kingori to a full professorship, making the sociologist the youngest Black woman ever to receive tenure at 925-year-old Oxford - or Cambridge.
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More Africans are migrating – but mostly within their own continent. Only 18% of Sub-Saharan Africans living abroad are in Europe. About 70% are in other African countries.
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