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#Africa

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Calishat

#Russia #Africa #disinformation #propaganda #InformationWarfare

'A recent Al Jazeera investigation revealed that Russian propaganda operations were stealing the identities of deceased people in Africa to create fake profiles of “writers” and "experts" to spread pro-Russian propaganda across West and Central Africa. '

united24media.com/war-in-ukrai

UNITED24 Media · How Russia Exploits Deceased Africans' Identities to Spread its Propaganda Across the ContinentBy Jess Daly
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Radical Anthropology

More on #genomics, this is obviously crazy since the #world's #genetic #diversity is contained within #Africa. Yet African DNA is underrepresented! Oh dear, it should not be only African scientists noticing this.

'African scientists say the world is missing vital medical insights by ignoring the continent’s vast genetic diversity. Less than 2 percent of human genome sequencing worldwide comes from African populations.'

rfi.fr/en/africa/20250404-scie

RFI · Scientists warn African DNA is missing from the global genome mapBy RFI
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The Kid Should See This 🌈🪐✨

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: Scientists use magnetic minerals, fossil records, and innovative mapping to reconstruct our planet's 4-billion-year geological #history. You can trace the movement of continents from ancient Pangea to today's landscape, explaining how our world has constantly reshaped itself. 🌎🕰️

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/m

#TKSST#africa#animation
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

For years economists have argued the key to a revival of economic development across the African continent is the reduction of barriers to trade *within* Africa.... as many countries find their exports to the US market constrained by the Liberation Day tariffs, further multilateral reductions in trade barriers across Africa (both for goods & services) look sensible.

Its an ill wind that blows no good & this might be a prompt for some helpful moves across Africa.

#Africa#trade#economics
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Nonilex

"Presumably no one is buying Teslas there," John Denton, head of the International Chamber of Commerce (#ICC), told Reuters, an ironic reference to the improbability of #Madagascar being able to placate #Trump by buying upmarket US products.

Madagascar is not alone: the bluntness of the formula as applied to economies which cannot afford to import much from the US inevitably leads to a high reciprocal tally: 50% for #Lesotho in Southern #Africa, 49% for #Cambodia in Southeast #Asia.

#tariffs
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