A new species of colobus monkey, known locally as likweli, has been discovered in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Described in PLOS One, this is only the fifth new species of African monkey to be described in the last 75 years.

The small monkey, named Colobus congoensis, has conspicuous orange lips. Slate grey cheek bones frame black-rimmed eyes, with a body doused in silky black fur and a white patch around the anus.

The first hint that a new primate species could be hiding in the dense forests of the Lomami National Park came in 2008, when conservationists snapped a blurry image of an unidentified primate during an expedition. After a second sighting in 2018, researchers launched a mission to find and describe the mysterious monkey.

Like I know dangote for cement. But what about others. Like HVAC, being in line with the countries policy and building up infrastructure and development. Or is it still mixed with corruption like the balkans. In the next 100 years, is there massive potential

Afroasiatic (also known as Afrasian and Hamito-Semiti) is one of the oldest language families we know of. It is estimated to have been spoken around 6,000 to 16,000 years ago in the Eastern Sahara or Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is home to languages from the Omotic, Cushitic, and Semitic branches of the Afroasiatic language family. The other branches are the Chadic, Tamazight, and ancient Egyptian languages.

Map Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Expansion_of_Afroasiatic.svg

Map based upon File:Africa location map.svg by Eric Gaba (Sting - fr:Sting)

Data from Blench, Roger (2006) Archaeology, Language, and the African Past, Rowman Altamira, pp. 105−107 Retrieved on 30 June 2013. ISBN: 978-0-7591-0466-2.

I'm from Botswana and I'm on a gap year from engineering school (My mental health was declining). I thought hey, let me try and explore my creative side, when I was growing up I wanted to be a movie writer/director. I gave up on that dream quick when I realised Botswana's film scene is practically dead. We only have two theatre's in the entire country and all our film makers are struggling. Film has always been tough even in the West but it must be harder when there's no infrastructure where you're from.

Then I thought hey yknow what, that's fine. I can tell stories in other mediums, so I tried being a comic writer, but then you have to payartists (which is fine), it's that comics is also a non existent medium in Botswana, we have no comic shops and most Batswana see them as childish and with that there are barely any comic artists here. I thought hey ill hire an artist online and we can make digital comics that appeal to an international audience, ill hire one abroad. I learnt the standard is to pay artists in USD dollars, even if i was to hire fellow Africans, and at bare minimum id have to pay 30k pula (our currency) for one 22 page issue where as an American would pay 4k for that to their fellow American, and heck lesser if they want an artist not from the west.

You could crowdfund, but most crowdfunding platforms (kickstarter and indiegogo) aren't even available to Batswana. One could say build an audience on places like youtube or substack to try and use that money to pay an artist, well they arent monetized here.

Indie animation then since others are trying it online, well to try and tell a full story (20 minutes) is expensive, and you cant do it on your own. Most indie guys use kickstarter, which is unavailable here.

Then I tried writing a fantasy novel, of which only one Motswana was able to break into western publishing, I actually met her online. She moved to Chicago, and she encouraged me to try, I sent her some of my writing, and she says I have potential, I just gotta keep at it and try. Breaking in from Botswana is possible but man, apart of me feels so much doubt, like Im wasting my time.

My heart keeps telling me to try but deep down apart of me thinks creative dreams arent for those of us Africans who live outside of Nigeria and SA. That some of these things are western privileges. I look outside, see the dust, see the struggle, the power cuts, the water cuts, the lack of paved road and see my village and feel empty, I feel numb because this was when I realised where I live, where I was born has predetermined what I can or cannot do.

Living in a country with nothing, a country that's in the middle of nowhere. Where most of us drink our sorrows away in poverty, or aim for the same careers to just survive, engineer, doctor, lawyer, accountant. No passion, no love, just survival. Even the rich and successful that made it via these professions, feel numb, they just drink all day.

Sometimes I feel tired being an African, tired of having to squash my dreams because I wasn't even afforded the possibility of trying. I'd rather be an American with a 1% chance of succeeding in the arts, than a Motswana with a 0% chance of success.

Im tired.

This isn’t anything new, but recently I’ve been seeing more videos of people “trying African food” while disrespecting dishes from specific countries. Africa is a continent, every country and region has its own food, traditions, and history. So why do people keep referring to the entire continent as if it’s one culture?

It’s not just food either. People constantly say things like “African culture”, “African clothes” or “African music”, you don’t see people casually referring to “North American food” or “European clothes” as if those continents are culturally uniform. If I said “North American food,” most people would probably ask, wtf is that? So why is that level of ignorance considered acceptable when it comes to Africa?

Burkina Faso has introduced new regulations banning humanitarian organisations from using photographs and videos that portray vulnerable people in degrading or exploitative ways, in a move officials say is aimed at protecting the dignity of aid recipients and reforming the country’s humanitarian sector.

The decree, approved by the Council of Ministers under the Ministry of Humanitarian Action and National Solidarity, is part of a broader package of reforms affecting how non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operate in the country.

Article where the decree can be found in French.

The ⁠true ⁠number of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is likely ⁠at least double the official tally, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) official.

The WHO has confirmed at least 1,963 cases, ⁠and at least 719 ⁠have died.

Speaking after visiting the region, Chikwe Ihekweazu, the Executive Director of the WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, said most deaths occurred in the family environment and not in medical centres.

Remembering the American veterans who died while serving together in the Egyptian Army after the civil war.

Those of them who died in Egypt or Sudan were mostly buried as it is forbidden in the Islamic religion to cremate the corpse, also Christians and Jews living there at the time (and still today) only buried their deceaseds.

My deepest regards from Egypt ..

Source: “The blue and The Gray on the Nile” written by William B. Hesseltine & Hazel C. Wolf

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1- Cornelius E. Hunt

Civil War record: master’s mate, Confederate States Navy

1870: Arrived in Egypt.

1871: Assigned to teach in military school at Aboukir, Alexandria.

1873: Died February 28 of injuries sustained in fall from horse.

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2- Edmund Parys

Civil War record: acting ensign, U.S. Navy

1871: Arrived in Egypt. Signal corps.

1874: Died in Egypt, April 13.

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3- William P. A. Campbell

Civil War record: 1st lieutenant, Confederate States Navy - CSS Rappahannock at the French port Calais

1870: Arrived in Egypt.

In charge of khedivial steamers between Alexandria and Constantinople.

1874: To Sudan in expedition with British general Charles Gordon; died from cholera in Khartoum on October 10.

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4- Frank A. Reynolds

Civil War record: lieutenant colonel, Confederate States Army

1870: Arrived in Egypt. Loring’s staff.

1873: To U.S. as inspector of arms purchased by khedive Ismael.

1875: Died in Ilion, N.Y., during an errand to purchase Remington rifles for the Egyptian army, still in Egyptian service.

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5- Alexander Welch Reynolds

Civil War record: brigadier general, Confederate States Army

1870: Arrived in Egypt. Loring’s staff.

1876: Died after his son Frank with one year in solitude and poverty, in Alexandria, Egypt in May 26.

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6- Robert Schuyler Lamson

Civil War record: none - too young

From New York city.

His maternal grandfather was (Robert Schuyler) a prominent financier, steamboat operator, and railroad president. He served as president of five railroads, including the New York & New Haven and the Illinois Central, and was known as "America's first railroad king".

1875: Arrived in Egypt. Member of Ratib Pasha’s staff.

1876: Gura campaign in Ethiopia.

Went to Darfur, and died there from malarious fever in October 18.

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7- Charles Frederick Loshe

Civil War record: lieutenant, U.S. Volunteers (from Germany)

1875: Arrived in Egypt.

1876: Gura campaign; chief of transportation, quartermaster, and commissary.

Surveying on Red Sea coast.

1878; To Red Sea coast; died at Suakin in September 2.

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8- Henry Irgins

Civil War record: sergeant, U.S. Volunteers

He received the rank of captain in the Egyptian army.

1876: Arrived in Egypt.

Gura campaign; assistant to chief engineer and confederate officer ‏Henry C. Derrick.

1878: Discharged like most American officers due to financial reasons; died in Liverpool en route to US.

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9- Erastus Sparrow Purdy

Civil War record: brevet lieutenant colonel, U.S. Volunteers

1870: Arrived in Egypt.

1871: Expedition to map area between Cairo and Suez and between Kenneh on the Nile and Kosseir on the Red Sea.

1874: Expedition with confederate officers Raleigh E. Colston and Alexander M. Mason, a hydrographic survey of bay and harbor of Berenice, exploration and mapping of Bishereen Desert between Berenice and Berber, Colston to conduct special survey of ancient gold mines at Derehib in Wadi Allakee, all to return via Korosko Desert and city.

1878: Discharged.

1878-1881: Civilian employee of khedives Ismael and then his son Tawfiq until his death in Cairo, June 21, 1881.

Former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has called for Britain’s former colonies to pay reparations to London for the "investment, effort and contribution" she claims the empire made in building them.

In a post on X, Braverman, a right-wing politician who defected from the Conservative Party to the far-right Reform UK party earlier this year, entered the reparations debate by declaring: “The British Empire did so much good for the world.”

“Of course slavery was abhorrent but to expect the British people of the 21st century to pay for actions that took place in the 18th century has no basis in law," Braverman said.

I see so much discourse online especially from diaspora activists and academics about "abolishing the colonial term MENA" and replacing it with SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) or WANA.

They pitch it as this amazing, decolonial act of solidarity. But has anyone noticed how this push is almost entirely driven by West Asians who just expect North Africa to nod and tag along?
Literally no everyday North African I know wants to be grouped with West Asia.

Switching from MENA to SWANA fixes a problem for West Asians (getting rid of the Eurocentric "Middle East" label), but it completely ignores the autonomy of North Africa. SWANA is literally named after a continent we don't even live on. Why should a Moroccan, Algerian, or Tunisian be shoved into an Asian-centric framework?

This forced grouping completely flattens the region. It erases the indigenous Amazigh identity and history by forcing an Arab-centric, West Asian geopolitical narrative onto us. Our dialects (Darija), our culture, our history with the Mediterranean, and our deep continental roots in Africa are completely different from the Levant or the Gulf.

It feels like West Asian groups just want to keep us in these acronyms to boost their demographic numbers and political leverage in Western institutions, without actually respecting our distinct identity.

If we are truly "decolonizing" terminology, stop trying to loop North Africa into Asian geography. Let us just be North Africa.

Thoughts? Anyone else from the Maghreb or Egypt exhausted by this?

"Descendants of enslaved Africans say symbolic apologies cannot repair generations of loss and injustice."

South Africa midfielder Jayden Adams, who played at the World Cup, has died. He was 25.

His death was confirmed by Gayton McKenzie, South Africa's minister of sport, arts and culture, in a statement on Saturday.

Hello r/Africa!

The whistle has blown on our World Cup journey.

With 10 African teams stepping up to the global stage, we experienced a true rollercoaster of highs and lows. Seeing one of our own reach the quarter-finals was an incredible achievement that filled the continent with pride. For the past few weeks, this subreddit has been a vibrant hub of debate, celebration, and shared heartbreak.

As we close this chapter, our eyes are already set on the 2030 World Cup in Morocco, Spain, and Portugal. Let us hope the cup stays on the continent next time!

Thank you all for making this such an entertaining and engaging space. We want to keep this momentum going and are looking forward to hosting more sub-wide events in the future. If you have any ideas for what we should do next, please share them below.

- The Mod Team