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[@cobbo3](/creator/twitter/cobbo3)
"Data from the Mo Ibrahim Index and the World Bank tells tells us that among XX world leaders who've ruled for more than XX years since 1950 none (except Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew) achieved sustained reform in their last decade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1980692743434445229) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-21T17:48Z 551.8K followers, 8019 engagements


"According to the "2025 McKinsey Global Payments Report" Africa really is rewriting how money moves: (1). Payments surge: Africas payments revenue grew about X% in 2024 outpacing global averages. Fintechs captured nearly XX% of new transaction value in key markets like Nigeria Kenya and South Africa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1981380354800795707) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-23T15:21Z 551.8K followers, 6784 engagements


"Tanzanias biggest bank by assets and loans CRDB which established its first international footprint in Burundi in 2012 followed by DR Congo XX months ago is now looking to Malawi Rwanda Uganda and Zambia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1980680402541912281) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-21T16:59Z 551.9K followers, 24.4K engagements


"@KamyaSamuel Its still in the mix we are seeing a lot of diversification in the industry. In a few one of the fuels will win out and be dominant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1981132109239763255) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-22T22:54Z 551.9K followers, XX engagements


"Egypt Ethiopia and the Dam: What If The Real Fight Is Over Soil Not Water Nearly everyone says Egypt and Ethiopia are fighting over water from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) which Addis Ababa officially inaugurated on September X to great fanfare. Thats the polite version. The real story could be muddier literally. The big picture people are insisting that what Egypt fears losing isnt just water but the soil that the Nile carried from the Ethiopian highlands for thousands of years laying down a fresh carpet of rich earth across the Nile Valley and Delta. Pharaohs and peasants"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1975867963187097952) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-08T10:16Z 551.9K followers, 74.6K engagements


"Many South African millennials and Gen Z are increasingly choosing plant parenting instead of having children. Some are helicopter plant parents who track watering schedules via apps and mark plant milestones much like one might with children"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1979448291155701992) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-18T07:23Z 551.9K followers, 6459 engagements


"This reptile found in rocky crevices in South African deserts bites its own tail to become a brutal spiked wheel in one of natures bizarrest defence mechanisms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1979839439083028582) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-19T09:18Z 551.9K followers, 3229 engagements


"These Countries Let You Become a Citizen by Donating Money -Antigua & Barbuda US$230000 to the National Development Fund or $260000 to the University of the West Indies and includes X year of free tuition for a family member) 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1980213673466515490) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-20T10:05Z 551.9K followers, 5039 engagements


"-Dominica $200000 -Grenada $235000 -St. Kitts & Nevis $250000 -St. Lucia $240000 -Vanuatu $90000 -Nauru $90000 -So Tom and Prncipe $90000 2/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1980213677015142870) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-20T10:05Z 551.9K followers, 1612 engagements


"Someone asks; Senegal President Bassirou Faye has three wives. His Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has two wives. Presumably one of Fayes wives is the First Lady. So whos the Second Lady Fayes wife number X or Sonkos first wife Anyone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1980717316762370363) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-21T19:26Z 551.8K followers, 26.9K engagements


"Youth anger in Ivory Coast as the 83-year-old President Allasane Outtara seeks a fourth term"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1981018302114832723) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-22T15:22Z 551.8K followers, 11.2K engagements


"Tanzania's first female president Samia Suluhu Hassan has defied early hopes that she would ease repressioninstead she has been just as responsible for the governments turn toward more repression"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1981742578778124411) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-24T15:20Z 551.8K followers, 5951 engagements


"There is hope for Africa: our dictators and democrats-turned-autocrats all eventually discover/rediscover the beauty of rule of law and the virtues of dialogue as ousted Madagascar president Andry Rajoealina has just done. Rajoelina fled the country in fear for his life yesterday following a military rebellion by the island nations elite Capsat troops who refused to fire on Gen Z protestors who had been demonstrating against his misrule for weeks. In a speech made from wherever hes hiding Rajoelina called for dialogue to find a way out of this situation and said the constitution should be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1978081471337316637) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-14T12:52Z 551.8K followers, 29.4K engagements


"Cameroons opposition candidate Issa Tchiroma Bakary claimed victory early today (Oct. 14) in the Oct. XX presidential election urging President Paul Biya who has been in power for XX years to concede. The Election body hasn't yet announced any results. Official results are expected at the latest by Oct. XX. Biya is looking at him and planning to rake him over the coals I suspect. Supporters of both camps are circulating unofficial tally images on social media but these remain unverified"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1978094623525380379) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-14T13:44Z 551.8K followers, 11.8K engagements


"The 1000-Km-Long African City: How the Abidjan-Lagos Highway Could Erase West Africas Borders A $XXXX billion super-highway is rising along West Africas coast linking five nations - Abidjan Takoradi Accra Lom Cotonou Porto-Novo and Lagos. Stretching 1028 km the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor carries XX% of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) trade and will connect over 52million people by 2030 swelling to XXX million by 2050. Backed by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the EU it promises to slash border delays cut transport costs and create over 200000 jobs. American"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1979530964855378176) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-18T12:52Z 551.8K followers, 15.5K engagements


"One mans loss is another mans gain: With Australia and Sudans livestock exports stumbling SOMALIA is seizing the moment its animal trade could top US $X BILLION this year reports Bloomberg. This would be a dramatic rebound from a low of only $50-60 million during the worst years of its civil war. Somalia also ranks third in Africas goat production and according to some sources the worlds largest exporter of camels"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1980285860936290648) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-20T14:51Z 551.8K followers, 61.3K engagements


"@MarkRutaro Lol he wants the monkey to sit on someone elses back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1981634868439364007) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-24T08:12Z 551.8K followers, 3121 engagements


"Among those who attended were Obafemi Awolowo one of the driving forces of Nigerian independence and the future presidents of Malawi Ghana and Kenya - Hastings Banda Kwame Nkrumah and Jomo Kenyatta"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1981701942599643259) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-24T12:38Z 551.8K followers, XXX engagements


"Although Tanzania is yet to witness an orderly transfer of power from one party to another regular elections featuring successive leaders of CCM have long guaranteed a measure of stability. That leadership model is gradually being challenged"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1981742583383535724) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-24T15:20Z 551.8K followers, 1118 engagements


"The RSF now battling the Sudan army were rich enough for its leader Hemedti to give over $1bn to help stabilise the Sudanese Pound in the aftermath of the economic crisis & protests which led to the ouster of President Bashir in April 2019 1/3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1647928870954233856) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2023-04-17T11:43Z 552K followers, 70.8K 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1947693823364108614) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-07-22T16:22Z 551.9K followers, 8692 engagements


"Apparently this soldier boy could be Madagascars new ruler. Once again an incompetent corrupt and violent African regime and a wave of popular protests may have opened the door for the military to seize the crown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1977389998253937066) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-12T15:04Z 552K followers, 17.9K engagements


"Rajoelinas Crisis In Madagascar Terrifies Africas Autocrats. Egypts Mubarak Burkina Fasos Compaore and Sudans Bashir Would Tell Them They Are Right To Be Afraid GENERAL Demosthene PIKULAS (photo) was installed Sunday as Madagascars new Chief of the Army Staff during a ceremony at the army headquarters attended by Armed Forces Minister Manantsoa Deramasinjaka Rakotoarivelo. Pikulas was recognised as the new head of the army by military contingents siding with protesters who are demanding the departure of President Andry Rajoelina. Who knows by lunchtime tomorrow he could be His Excellency"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1977439815898370373) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-12T18:22Z 552K followers, 23.3K engagements


"The best new U.S. restaurant of 2025 is an Afro-Caribbean stunner in Washington D.C. according to Yelp. Courtsey of the wonderful Kwame Onwuachi its partly inspired by the Dogon people of West Africa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1977632093565071378) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-13T07:06Z 551.9K followers, 2172 engagements


"The recently unveiled Thomas Sankara Mausoleum in Burkina Faso built from locally sourced laterite and clay bricks to commemorate the country's iconic former president and Pan-Africanist. Sankara was assassinated on XX October 1987 in a plot by his treacherous "comrade" Blaise Compaor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1977632906731237425) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-13T07:10Z 551.9K followers, 67.4K engagements


"As our Nigerian kin would say Gen Z dey work soldier dey chop Andry Rajoelina don scatter as Gen Z storm the streets and the army no gree fire. The next oga for this Madagascar "transition" go likely be khaki man chopping the fruits of Gen Z's hustle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1977737358989488233) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-13T14:05Z 551.9K followers, 17.3K engagements


"Our tiny but wonderful island nation of Cape Verde qualified for the World Cup for the FIRST TIME Monday after beating Eswatini 3-0. With a population of just over 350000 Cape Verde is the 2nd smallest country ever (after Iceland) to make it to the World Cup. 📸AP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1978034364085576153) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-14T09:45Z 552K followers, 3422 engagements


"TRIVIA: If Col. Michael Randrianirina leader of Madagascar's rebellious CAPSAT elite military unit that helped protesters run ex-ruler Andry Rajoelina out of power formally becomes president he will have the longest single surname or last name of any incumbent African president. It has XX letters longer than DRCs Flix Tshisekedi (10). The previous record was again held by a Malagasy politician Hery Martial Rajaonarimampianina (pictured) who was president from XX January 2014 until his resignation on X September 2018"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1978196483880186309) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-14T20:29Z 551.9K followers, 17.2K engagements


"Poverty in Nigeria has risen from XX% of the population in 2019 to an estimated XX% this year - affecting around XXX million people🫢🫢🫢"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1978561232228524090) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-15T20:38Z 552K followers, 111K engagements


"We are interesting times. Clashes broke out in the southern Tunisian city of Gabes during a rally by protesters denouncing decades of POLLUTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL NEGLECT - a fight over the quality of air water and soil l love it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1978754296674918456) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-16T09:26Z 551.9K followers, 2856 engagements


"Tomeka Thiam wife of music star Akon the man who promised to build billion dollar mega cities in Senegal and Uganda wants millions amid divorce; but court found only US$10K in his personal accounts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1978757174483435567) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-16T09:37Z 551.9K followers, 13.8K engagements


"Morocco says it welcomed XX million tourists by the end of Sept. nearly tied with Egypt in Africa. Chart of the TOP XX AFRICAN TOURISM RECIPIENTS so far this year:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1978829140439507380) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-16T14:23Z 551.9K followers, 18.2K engagements


"Almost hard to believe the earth-shaking events in Gaza come from an area just XXX sq. kmabout XX km long and XXX km wide. Smaller than Nairobi County and Addis Ababa 📸Mahmud Hams/AFP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1978966943899013220) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-16T23:31Z 551.9K followers, 2078 engagements


"THE HISTORY THEY DONT TEACH: Matthew Henson a skilled Black explorer likely reached the North Pole first in 1909 ahead of Robert Peary. As a key member of Pearys team Hensons navigation and sled-driving skills were vital. Racial biases of the era downplayed Hensons role as he was often described as Pearys servant despite his expertise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1979119268059852872) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-17T09:36Z 551.9K followers, 8559 engagements


"Residents gather during the annual replastering of the Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu Mali on October XX 2025. The 2025 replastering marks the 700th anniversary of the construction of the mosque erected in the 14th century during the reign of Emperor Kankou Moussa. 📸Hameye Capii/AFP/Getty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1979231365498376610) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-17T17:01Z 551.9K followers, 4271 engagements


"Total tranformation Madagascars Col. Michael Randrianirina sworn in today as president has really cleaned up well. He was propelled into power by a military mutiny that joined forces with a Gen Z protest movement that ousted now former president Andry Joelina"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1979245378256961670) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-17T17:57Z 551.9K followers, 7095 engagements


"Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party has announced it had agreed the term of President Emmerson Mnangagwa should be extended until 2030. Boring why can't they surprise us just this once"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1979689595290984590) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-18T23:22Z 551.9K followers, 7591 engagements


"Zimbabwe ruling party extends President Emmerson Mnangagwa's (aka The Crocodile) term to 2030. XX African countries have amended or abolished limits over the last 2025 years. Why does this matter 1/3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1979854209739895281) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-19T10:16Z 551.9K followers, 24.5K engagements


"LEAST POWERFUL AFRICAN PASSPORTS IN 2025 Of the least powerful passports in the world X of them are African. Ranked by number of visa-free or nearly visa-free destinations: South Sudan - XX DR Congo - XX Libya - XX Sudan - XX Eritrea - XX Somalia - 44"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1979934646369452182) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-19T15:36Z 551.9K followers, 6515 engagements


"Four South African rowers make history in the Charles River in Boston USA. It is the first time an all-Black African team will take part at the Head of the Charles Regatta the largest three-day event in the world in terms of participation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1980026296244527611) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-19T21:40Z 551.9K followers, 3433 engagements


"Uganda to host the GAIME Conference 2025 Africas largest AI gathering. The event expected to draw over 5000 delegates from more than XXX countries is set for October 30-31 in Kampala"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1980028899745526066) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-19T21:50Z 552K followers, 8356 engagements


"More than 50%f of U.S. job postings no longer require a degree. The question isnt whether higher education can evolveits whether it can compete in an economy that now values proof of skill over proof of tuition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1980211574246887519) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-20T09:56Z 552K followers, 10.2K engagements


"Ethiopia has become the 23rd African country to introduce the R21 malaria vaccine following a recent surge in cases"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1980680573380133296) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-21T17:00Z 552K followers, 1983 engagements


"Zambias President Hakainde Hichilema has an MBA in Finance & Business Strategy from the University of Birmingham UK and his wealth is estimated at US$340 million but he believes in witchcraft. The other day a court in Lusaka sentenced X men to X years in prison with hard labour for attempting to kill the country's president Hakainde Hichilema with witchcraft. It's the first time that anyone has been put on trial for a witchcraft assassination attempt against the president in the country. The two men were found in possession of wait for it a live chameleon an unidentified white powder a red"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1968348098658279562) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-09-17T16:15Z 551.9K followers, 245K engagements


"Chinese guided-missile destroyer Baotou docked at the Kenyan port of Mombasa on Saturday for a technical port call. The destroyer's arrival marked the first time in six years for a Chinese naval vessel to dock in a Kenyan port"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1979943674248048804) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-19T16:12Z 551.9K followers, 33.2K engagements


"Barbados Belize Dominica and St Vincent agree landmark pact letting citizens live and work freely across their four countries INDEFINITELY without the need for a work or residency permit. If the East African Community could"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1975498105358573809) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-07T09:47Z 551.8K followers, 343.6K engagements


"Poland has unveiled a next-gen train with incredible capabilities. It runs on hydrogen fuel cells and batteries releases water vapour instead of pollution and is a model for clean travel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1979447878142824572) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-18T07:22Z 551.8K followers, 7594 engagements


"A large mushroom farm near the Kenyan capital Nairobi is one of a kind: It grows fungi on an industrial scale not as food for restaurants but as a building material that some Kenyans say could make more people homeowners"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1980152866955268280) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-20T06:03Z 551.8K followers, 7042 engagements


"Toyota is targeting 2027 or 2028 as therollout datefor its new solid-state EVs which would contain faster-charging and longer-range batteries. It claims this would be worlds first practical use of all-solid-state batteries in electric vehicles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1981069198408167498) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-22T18:44Z 551.8K followers, 6991 engagements


"Uganda is going through a phase of both freelance and decentralised repression and de- democratisation. The centre is losing grip. You can run against President Museveni for the presidency but not against some powerful NRM politicians in constituencies. There was a time M7 wouldnt countenance that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1981626885890052476) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-24T07:40Z 551.8K followers, 69.2K engagements


"The radical Fifth Pan-African Congress October 15-21 changed Africa and was a key moment for the movement that liberated many Africans from colonial rule"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1981701937407086971) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-24T12:38Z 551.8K followers, 1922 engagements


"THIS BLEW MY SOCKS OFF😳😳😳😳😳 In 1950 Europe had about XX million births versus XXX million in Nigeria. In 2023 that relationship had reversed with Nigeria recording more birth each year than all of Europe (including Russia) combined"  
[X Link](https://x.com/cobbo3/status/1981755269085270381) [@cobbo3](/creator/x/cobbo3) 2025-10-24T16:10Z 551.8K followers, 20.4K engagements