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The National Museums of Kenya has launched an app to help the country’s wildlife authorities track and log rare and common mammals and record whether the species and their habitat are thriving. At the Soysambu Conservancy in Nakuru, southern Kenya, tourists come to experience the rich biodiversity. When John Perret, the owner of a camel safari, takes out his phone, it is not merely taking a photo. He is actually using the Makenya, Mammal Atlas Kenya app which allows users to record all the details of any mammals they spot. “This app now helps us to really map where these…

A planned pipeline to export oil from Uganda is likely to entrench the long rule of President Yoweri Museveni, opposition figure Bobi Wine said Tuesday, opposing the increasingly controversial project. Wine, a singer and former lawmaker who ran for president in 2021 is the most prominent Ugandan to object to the East African Crude Oil Pipeline that has run into headwinds as activists pile pressure on France’s TotalEnergies and its Chinese partner to pull out. The European Union legislature passed a resolution last month urging TotalEnergies to delay work on the pipeline by at least a year, citing rights violations…

Basketball sensation Victor Wembanyama is set for his first taste of NBA life. The French player of Congolese descent will take part in 2 exhibition games against the G League Ignite this week. To get a sense of how much of a prodigy he is, it’s worth mentioning that about every prognosticator anoints him as the top pick in the 2023 NBA draft. “I was built for this I guess. All that happens to me I expect it for myself. It’s just a checklist of expectations”, he told AP. “There’s so many players I respect but my goal is to…

Ukrainians pay tribute, during a ceremony in Bucha, to the officer who commanded the pilots of the 40th tactical aviation brigade, nicknamed “the ghosts of Kyiv”. Mykhailo Matyushenko died a “hero” during a mission over the Black Sea. AMN Reporters.

Arema FC fans and local communities light up candles and hold a mass prayer outside Kanjuruhan stadium, in Malang, East Java, where 131 people were killed in one of the deadliest disasters in football history. AMN Reporters.

Agricultural transformation is underway in Africa and attracting more and more investors; Nigeria is no longer the continent’s largest oil producer; developing and promoting the cultural sector as an economic driver. The agrifood tech start-up boom The agri-tech start-up ecosystem has been flourishing in Africa for the past two years. Although there are challenges, particularly in terms of access, the agri-tech startup scene continues to attract investor interest. Fundraising by startups operating in the agri-tech space in Africa stood at $482.3 million in 2021, a 250% growth over the previous year. Since 2017, the sector has garnered more than $1…

How can peace return to Burkina Faso? For a second time in only 9 months, military officials were acclaimed by demonstrators in the streets of Ouagadougou following a takeover. The Friday coup has raised condemnation on one part and hopes on the other. The spokesman for Guinea’s military government offered his perspective on the situation. “If we want to consider the transition in Burkina and only focus on principles by saying that coups are condemnable and that they must be limited in duration, without providing solutions to the causes of these crises, we take the risk that it occurs again”,…

The President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) was in Guinea on Friday (September 30) as questions persist about the country’s ability to host the African Cup of Nations as planned in 2025, a Guinean sports official said. Motsepe was due to meet the leader of the junta Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, from 3.30pm local time (and GMT) before leaving in the evening, according to the program of the visit communicated by the Guinean federation. Beforehand, he worked with Guinean football leaders in preparation for his meeting with Colonel Doumbouya, Thierno Saidou Diakite, a member of the organizing committee, told…

Somali activists, Fartuun Adan and Ilwad Elman, have won the 2022 Swedish Right Livelihood Award – considered by some as an alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize – for their courage in promoting human rights and peace in the face of the ongoing terrorism and gender-based violence in their country. The NGO praised the mother and daughter team for using innovative and culturally relevant solutions to support survivors of gender-based violence, disarm and rehabilitate former child combatants, and equip women and youth with job and leadership skills. Long-standing commitment to peace Their organisation, the Mogadishu-based Elman Peace and Human Rights…

Gunfire rang out early Friday in Burkina Faso’s capital and the state broadcaster went off the air, sparking fears of a mutiny nine months after a military coup d’etat overthrew the country’s president. It was not immediately known where Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba was in the West African country. He had given a speech the day before in Djibo, in the north of Burkina Faso. Last week, Damiba had traveled to New York where he addressed the U.N. General Assembly as the country’s coup leader-turned-president. In his speech, Damiba defended his January coup as “an issue of survival…