U.S. President Donald Trump's slashing of foreign aid funding is putting South Africa's young HIV patients at risk, with 13% of its population living with the virus. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/20/world/science-health/us-cuts-hiv-patients/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #us #africa #southafrica #medicine #hiv #donaldtrump #poverty
Painting of the Day. Village
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This painting is a beautiful and vibrant depiction of a traditional African village with thatched roof huts. The painting is full of life and energy, and the village is depicted in a state of peace and tranquility.
99 x 80 cm
39 x 31 in
$1500 original / $200 top quality art print
Inquiries are welcome / Sales benefit only the artist
#AfricanArt #Africa #utopia #paintingoftheday
The climate crisis has dramatically worsened water scarcity in Eastern and Southern #Africa over the past few decades, leaving nearly 116 million people –or 40 percent of the population - without safe drinking water, according to a new Oxfam report. https://reliefweb.int/report/world/water-driven-hunger-how-climate-crisis-fuels-africas-food-emergency #ClimateChange
Despite Elon Musk and President Donald Trump's claims that U.S. aid cuts aren't causing harm, shutting down vital programs like PEPFAR and USAID in South Sudan is already killing children. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/03/19/world/us-aid-cuts-are-deadly/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #usaid #donaldtrump #elonmusk #us #ebola #doge #aid #southsudan #africa
In South Africa, Russia’s ‘anti-colonial’ narrative sways public opinion | Russia-Ukraine war News https://www.byteseu.com/843903/ #africa #Europe #News #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #SouthAfrica #Ukraine
We take photos as return ticket to a moment otherwise gone…
Holy Hell
““Now everything is dead, it’s like a totally dead river. Unbelievable. Overnight, this river died.”
“an acid spill at a Chinese-owned mine …contaminated a major river and could potentially affect millions of people after signs of pollution were detected at least 100 kilometers (60 miles) downstream.”
Chihombori-Quao: USAID was ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’ in Africa | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2025/3/16/chihombori-quao-usaid-was-a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing-in-africa
"Former African Union ambassador to the US says US government’s aid agency had a ‘major meddling agenda’ across Africa."
"Chihombori-Quao tells host Steve Clemons that USAID doesn’t have much to show for its decades of education and healthcare projects in Africa and often destabilised countries under the guise of environmental, human rights or social justice agendas."
#US and Israel look to #Africa for moving #Palestinians uprooted from #Gaza
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-trump-somaliland-sudan-somalia-575e03aaa0c487bae2fbadfdef8f5ca3
The contacts with #Sudan, Somalia and the breakaway region of #Somalia known as Somaliland reflect the determination by the U.S. and #Israel to press ahead with a plan that has been widely condemned and raised serious legal and moral issues.
Penguin Research Camera in the Stony Point nature reserve, South Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-aNRbAj6rc
Mahmoud Ahmed is a national icon of Ethiopia, a musician who rose to prominence during the time of Haile Selassie, and whose songs are known by every generation, though he hasn’t released a new track in decades. Now, he’s retiring, and @thecontinent spoke to him days before his final concert in Addis Ababa. Here’s the interview — writer Maya Misikir suggests listening to it accompanied by Ahmed’s most famous track, “Tizita,” (sometimes known as “Tezeta”) which is a song about nostalgia.
https://continent.substack.com/p/i-would-be-happy-to-die-on-that-stage
#Africa #Ethiopia #MahmoudAhmed #Music ##Tezeta #Tizita #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
#India reduce achizițiile de petrol rusesc și majorează importurile din 
#AmericaLatină și 
#Africa.
Age of “climate whiplash” puts residents of Africa’s fast-growing cities in danger
As global warming intensifies heavy rainfall and drought, cities with poor drainage and water systems are struggling to adapt and protect people, especially in the Global South
Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access ‘weaponised’
More governments seeking to keep millions of people offline amid conflicts, protests and political instability
Africa’s elephants have been in dramatic decline for 50 years. A new study explores what can be done to save them.
From @ConversationUS: The research "put together data from 1,325 surveys of elephant populations — everything we could find — to evaluate how elephant numbers in Africa have changed."
