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@cobbo3 "In Moyambas market Freetown Sierra Leone Madam Yokos grave whispers her saga. Born Soma in 1849 she became a queen who united XX chiefdoms with a heart of fire. Defying colonial shadows and wars chaos she led with courage. #MadamYoko"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-20 15:50:24 UTC 551.7K followers, 1853 engagements

"Luxury travel operator Wilderness just unveiled plans for its new wellness center in Rwandas Volcanoes National Park. Named the Sanctuary at Bisate the spot is set to open this December"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-23 13:45:09 UTC 551.7K followers, 2110 engagements

"The worlds fear of Black people isnt just about skin colour. Its about strength. Its about resilience. After enduring long punishing treks sometimes as far as 1000 miles (1609Kms) from inland villages across West Africa captives (enslaved Africans) were brought to this river. Shackled and exhausted they were made to wash in the Assin Manso. Not out of care or dignity. But because slave traders didnt want them to appear as damaged goods. Once cleansed their skin was rubbed with shea butter to shine literally to look appealing to buyers"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-23 13:22:36 UTC 551.7K followers, 9533 engagements

"2/3 - As some Ethiopian doctors earn only $XX a month Addis Ababa is splashing on a slew of vanity projects including a new palace for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed costing a reported US$1015 billion"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-15 19:13:23 UTC 551.7K followers, 10.7K engagements

"Chunk of Mars set be auctioned off for eye-watering $X MILLION. The massive piece of the Red Planet travelled XXX million miles through space before slamming into the Sahara Desert where it was discovered in Niger's remote Agadez Region in 2023"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-14 19:02:08 UTC 551.7K followers, 2911 engagements

"Africa's poorest nations are slipping further behind in the global recovery. A new report shows fragile conflict-affected statesmany in Africaface economic stagnation with 420M+ people living on less than $3/day"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-02 13:49:14 UTC 551.7K followers, 1784 engagements

"Chinese state-owned conglomerate to develop large soybean corn farms in Angola as the worlds second-largest economy seeks to secure long-term supply amid a trade war with the US"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-22 16:22:48 UTC 551.7K followers, 8376 engagements

"When Giants Fell: The XX Biggest Opposition Wins in African Election History By end of 2025 there will have been at least XX elections in Africa including Cameroon where incumbent president Paul Biya aged XX has been in office since 1982 making him one of the world's longest-serving leaders with a tenure spanning over XX years is seeking to extend his rule. Malawi will go to the polls on September XX Tanzania in October and Cte d'Ivoire in October to name a few. In the theatre of African politics as witnessed in Botswana late last year nothing shakes the ground like an underdog beating the"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-22 15:17:56 UTC 551.7K followers, 7455 engagements

"1/3 - Ethiopian doctors some earning just US$56 a month protested last month. Over XXX were arrested. Last year striking doctors in Kenya rejected a govt offer of US$550 of monthly wages - demanding nearly triple that figure almost XX times what most Ethiopian doctors earn. No Kenyan doctors were arrested"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-15 19:13:22 UTC 551.7K followers, 69.7K engagements

"France has handed back its last military bases in Senegal after a 65-year presence. It means the French army no longer has any permanent camps in West and Central Africa"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-20 09:40:33 UTC 551.7K followers, 5278 engagements

"Online conspiracy theories increasingly dismiss the Holocaust and atrocities in Rwanda Bosnia Ukraine Israel and Gaza. Nedzad Avdic survived a mass execution at XX. Now he's fighting the disinformation and denialism"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-22 18:47:14 UTC 551.7K followers, 2183 engagements

"43 Years Later Cameroons Despot Biya Still Thinks Hes the Future And That Retirement is Overrated Paul Biya Cameroons 92-year-old president-for-life has graciously offered to serve his people once moreby running for an 8th term in the October 2025 elections. Because apparently XX years in power just isnt enough. Biya has ruled since 1982 making him Africas second-longest-serving leader after Equatorial Guineas Teodoro Obiang and the oldest head of state on Earth who isnt a monarch. Born in 1933 he survived a coup in 1984 and has won seven electionsin 1984 1988 1992 1997 2004 2011 and 2018most"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-14 11:53:29 UTC 551.7K followers, 8755 engagements

"Compared to Asia ($621B) and Latin America ($193B) in 2023 Sub-Saharan Africas $53B FDI highlights barriers like infrastructure gaps. Reforms are critical to boost investment /2 #AfricaEconomy"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-06-24 11:21:38 UTC 551.7K followers, 1365 engagements

"Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki has warned neighbouring Ethiopia against renewed conflict. Eritrea said regional tensions stem from Ethiopias renewed focus on securing access to a seaport a longstanding strategic objective for the landlocked country"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-22 18:54:42 UTC 551.7K followers, 2006 engagements

"Even when contemporary African borders have been modified as in the case of Eritreas separation from Ethiopia or South Sudans independence from Sudan much of the contestation has revolved around the accurate demarcation of colonial borders rather than old claims about ethnic or communal homelands"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-24 21:36:20 UTC 551.7K followers, XXX engagements

"Africa Has a Mental Health Crisis. The Continent Also Has The Worlds Highest Suicide Rate With X of The Top XX Countries With The Highest Suicide Rates Globally (Lesotho Eswatini Zimbabwe South Africa Mozambique Central African Rep) AFRICA HAS A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS. About XX million people in Africa suffer from depression with depression rates among women as high as 20-25% in some communities. Depression is the leading cause of disability for African women. In 2022 the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported that XXX million people in Africa were affected by mental health conditions up from"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-16 17:44:14 UTC 551.7K followers, 4978 engagements

"In sub-Saharan Africa since the 1980s the number of low-income countries decreased from XX% to XX% in 2024 with one country (Seychelles) reaching high-income status"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-16 13:15:24 UTC 551.7K followers, 2040 engagements

"Leo XIV has not long been pope yet the American head of the Catholic Church already receives XXX kilogrammes of letters a day - or an average of XXX to XXX kilos per week"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-18 09:59:52 UTC 551.7K followers, 1616 engagements

"Who Really Rules Rebel-Controlled Territory in Africa (2025) X. Burkina Faso XX% Large swathes of the north and east are controlled by jihadist groups linked to Al-Qaeda and ISIS rendering the central government effectively absent in nearly half the country. X. Sudan 3040% The Rapid Support Forces and allied rebels have seized most of Darfur parts of Kordofan Gezira and Khartoum outskirts in a war thats split the nation. X. Somalia 1525% Al-Shabaab militants dominate vast stretches of southern and central Somalia especially rural areas despite federal control over major cities like Mogadishu."
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-24 16:20:32 UTC 551.7K followers, 1670 engagements

"How Spain Lost Over 13000 Troops in Its Worst Military Defeat in Africa On XX July 1921 in the mountainous terrain of northeastern Morocco the Spanish Empire suffered its most devastating military defeat in modern history the Battle of Annual. Fought between the Spanish Army and the Riffian Berbers during the Rif War this catastrophic loss left over 13000 Spanish soldiers dead and marked the beginning of a political and military crisis that would shake the foundations of Spains colonial ambitions and monarchy"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-13 09:20:07 UTC 551.7K followers, 4731 engagements

"The Sahara desert is expanding at roughly XX kilometres per year and Mauritaniain particular its UNESCOlisted city Chinguettiis highly likely to be engulfed in the near future"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-19 11:12:07 UTC 551.7K followers, 2205 engagements

"Angola the country with incredible natural wonders that few foreign visitors have seen - or heard of"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-21 10:34:34 UTC 551.7K followers, 2397 engagements

"China's leading home appliance manufacturer Midea Group has become the official sponsor of the Africa Cup of Nations 2025 which is scheduled to be held in Morocco"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-20 09:43:23 UTC 551.7K followers, 13.9K engagements

"Cte dIvoire has launched a XXX billion CFA franc ($800 million) initiative to accelerate tech innovation and expand its startup ecosystem"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-21 17:46:00 UTC 551.7K followers, 2271 engagements

"Silicon Valley's dominance faces new pressure as tech hubs like Bangalore Nairobi Tallinn (Estonia) and So Paulo are redefining the global innovation landscape driven by talent government support and growing investor interest"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-24 08:45:26 UTC 551.7K followers, 1689 engagements

"Ghanaian photographer and videographer is laid to rest in a Sony camera-shaped coffin. In Ghana coffins are typically crafted to resemble a persons trade and symbolise the work theyll continue in the afterlife"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-24 12:42:14 UTC 551.7K followers, 8858 engagements

"Amins diplomacy aimed to place Kampala at the centre of a postcolonial world. New book A Popular History of Idi Amins Uganda shows that he made Uganda a landlocked nation look like a frontline state in the global war against racism apartheid and imperialism"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-23 05:56:46 UTC 551.7K followers, 1248 engagements

"Underwater photographer films rarely seen creature slithering through the ocean in Mauritius like a scarf blowing in the wind"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-24 14:10:48 UTC 551.7K followers, 1132 engagements

"Addis Ababa has truly cleaned up well👍🏽"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-09 22:25:57 UTC 551.7K followers, 103.5K engagements

"Meet Ousmane Sembne the Father of African Cinema His bold films like Black Girl & Ceddo broke barriers telling authentic African stories in African languages. A griot of the screen he challenged colonialism and sparked change. #SembeneOusmane #AfricanCinema #FilmLegend"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-21 08:30:25 UTC 551.7K followers, 3425 engagements

"The surprising durability of Africas 140-year-old colonial borders. Scholar Ali Mazrui reminded us that by 1993 nearly X million Africans had lost their lives defending the borders inherited from colonial regimes. Since then millions more have died"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-24 21:36:19 UTC 551.7K followers, XXX engagements

"1/2: UNESCO just announced XX new World Heritage Sites including these FOUR from Africa:"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-17 14:51:34 UTC 551.7K followers, 3077 engagements

"Rwanda sees sharp drop in multidimensional child poverty. The rate of children aged X to XX living in multidimensional poverty has more than halved from 25.3%in 2016/17 to XXXX% in 2023/24"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-20 21:45:51 UTC 551.7K followers, 1671 engagements

"Govt urges Ugandans to learn swimming as flood risk grows as 3000 drown every year😕😕😕"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-22 18:17:42 UTC 551.7K followers, 12.3K engagements

"Tanzania govt bans use of Kenyan shilling and other foreign currencies"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-05-04 10:35:53 UTC 551.7K followers, 56.6K engagements

"Aterian a UK-based critical minerals exploration company said it has found high-grade lithium deposits in Rwanda as part of a joint venture with British-Australian giant Rio Tinto. Lithium is used in batteries (electric vehicles electronics) etc"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-19 11:47:44 UTC 551.7K followers, 2112 engagements

"Uganda military dictator Idi Amin made himself out to be the liberator of an oppressed African majority a demagogic trick that endures today"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-23 05:56:45 UTC 551.7K followers, 1509 engagements

"Gulf States are diving deep into Africas mines chasing critical minerals to fuel their global ambitions From UAEs trading hubs to Saudi Arabias Vision 2030 theyre reshaping the continents resource game. Win for Africa or a new scramble for power"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-20 18:00:41 UTC 551.7K followers, 2410 engagements

"Australian bungee jumper fell into crocodile infested waters in Zimbabwes Zambezi when the cord snapped plunging her into the river below. She lived to tell the story"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-23 07:48:57 UTC 551.7K followers, 2620 engagements

"Kenyas neighbours look to benefit from political volatility that has gripped East Africas biggest economy. Anti-govt protests have severely hit businesses with several investors telling Semafor they were hedging their bets on Kenya"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-19 11:37:14 UTC 551.7K followers, 3517 engagements

"1/2: The world is entering a dark new era of hydroterrorism. Global water-related violence surged by more than XX% in 2023 alone. There were XXX farmer-herder clashes over water in the central Sahel in five years. #AfricaWaterFacts"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-23 14:12:24 UTC 551.7K followers, 2891 engagements

"2/2: In the Sahel extremist groups control rivers and wells. In Gambia salinity threatens XX% of rice fields.Senegals water demand may rise XX% by 2035. Burkina Fasos farmland is over XX% degraded. #AfricaWaterFacts"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-23 14:12:24 UTC 551.7K followers, 1223 engagements

"Africas minerals are being bartered for security: why its a badidea. Such deals arent new in Africa. They first emerged in the early 2000s as resources-for-infrastructure transactions"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-22 13:53:02 UTC 551.7K followers, 1677 engagements

"We should say unto all and I'll say it again It's not just to win shake a hand make a friend We who are pure at heart somehow might see There's still light in the world come rejoice with me It's a new day A new world order a brand new day A change of mind for the human race -New World Order Curtis Mayfield"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-24 12:40:23 UTC 551.7K followers, 1189 engagements

"The DR Congo and M23 rebels have signed ceasefire deal in Qatar to end fighting between the two sides. A final peace deal is due by XX Aug. and must align with last month's US-brokered deal between DRC and Rwanda"
@cobbo3 on X 2025-07-19 18:45:30 UTC 551.7K followers, 6002 engagements