This proverb doesn’t apply to real courtship, but it does carry a deeper meaning on the importance of pursuing situations with due diligence and vigilance. It’s beneficial to make big decisions unhurried. Any similar proverbs from your respective countries? Share in the comments.

NIGERIAN BOY INVENTS GLASSES FOR THE BLIND

An African teenager has invented glasses that could revolutionise life for blind people. They have sensors that bleep to warn the wearer of nearby obstacles. It’s a simple idea that’s been brought to life by 17-year-old Khalifa Aminu, from Nigeria. He’s now looking for funding to get them manufactured. Seems like a winner to us!.

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ARREST ANYONE SAYING ALLAHU AKBAR

The racist, Islamophobic, and anti-migrant riots in England and the British-occupied North of Ireland have exposed that the rot runs right up to the top. In this clip, British MP Robert Jenrick, who was Minister of State for Immigration (2022 - 2023), expresses surprise that people weren’t thrown into jail for shouting 'Allahu Akbar’ during earlier pro-Palestinian rallies. During a Sky News interview on the recent riots, Jenrick accused the police of treating the racist thugs harshly compared with how they handled past pro-Palestinian protesters.

Continued......This man is in the running to become the new opposition Tory party leader. Let that sink in: ‘Allahu Akbar’ means ‘God is great’ in Arabic and he wants to criminalise it. He’s defended himself by claiming he wasn’t referring to Muslims who use the term 'peacefully and spiritually' - only to those who use it 'aggressively.’ So much for freedom of speech and freedom of worship UK which are meant to be protected by The Human Rights Act is a UK law passed in 1998.

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WAR-TORN SUDAN HIT BY HEAVY FLOODS

Severe floods have hit war-torn Sudan - leading to the loss of at least 53 lives and displacing thousands. With the country torn by conflict, the extensive flooding has only worsened the humanitarian situation on the ground, as those displaced seek shelter and medical assistance.

According to the United Nations, more than 21,000 people have been displaced since June, including in areas where there is heavy fighting. Families fleeing the violence are now faced with a different disaster - the wrath of Mother Nature - as humanitarian agencies on the ground scramble to erect emergency shelters as well as provide core relief items and kits for those who lost their belongings in the floods.

Let’s not forget also that over 25 million Sudanese people - more than half the population - are currently suffering from crisis levels of hunger.

MALEMA CALLS OUT ZIMBABWE ‘TYRANNY’

The African Union needs to take a stand against the ‘tyranny’ that’s taking place in Zimbabwe. That’s the message from Julius Malema, the leader of South Africa’s EFF party.

He’s also urged Zimbabwe’s youth
to rise up against the ‘suppression of political wishes’ following the arrests of dozens of opposition activists.

Last week it was reported 18 were arrested, while 77 have been in pre-trial detention for months.

The crackdown comes ahead of a meeting of Southern African leaders on August 17, in Harare. Authorities say those detained were inciting violence, critics say it’s an attack on political dissent.

Continued…. In this speech at Rhodes University, Malema calls on African institutions to speak out against what some stakeholders say is a decline in Zimbabwe’s democracy rather than wait for Europe to condemn them.

He’s frequently criticised Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa and, before that, fell out with the country’s previous leader, Robert Mugabe. But despite that record of bad relations, do you think Malema makes a valid point or is he unwittingly aiding and abetting Zimbabwe’s international enemies? Let us know in the comments.

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Ghana’s set for a golden age with the launch of its first refinery in the capital, Accra. The Royal Ghana Gold Refinery will process 400kg of the precious metal a day. With prices topping $2,238 an ounce in the second quarter of 2024, the West African state is set for a windfall. Until now, Ghana’s been exporting only unprocessed gold, but still managed to rake in $5 billion in the first half of 2024 alone. The London Bullion Market Association has issued a Good Delivery Bar Certification for the new refinery. Maybe Ghana should revert to its former name, The Gold Coast… or is that too tarnished by the colonial past?

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NIGERIA GOV’T BRIBED PROTESTERS?

A video has surfaced of a Nigerian anti-government protester alleging President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government paid citizens to disrupt protests that have rocked the country over a cost-of-living crisis.

The unnamed man said people received 5,000 nairas or $3 to disrupt #EndBadGovernance demonstrations in the capital, Abuja.

Continued.....Like their kin in Kenya, who have protested tax hikes for the past two months, Nigerians are crying out in the streets against International Monetary Fund-approved economic policies that have spiked the cost of living.

Oil-rich Nigeria has suffered an economic crisis since Tinubu scrapped a decades-old fuel subsidy and lowered the value of the Nigerian currency, the naira, to attract foreign investment after taking office in May 2023. Inflation has climbed to a 28-year high of 34.19 per cent, as of mid-July, while the naira has depreciated to a record low against the US dollar.

Nigeria is also combating an armed insurgency that, as of 2021, had k*lled some 350,000 people, mostly children below the age of five, according to a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report.

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ALGERIA CELEBRATES OLYMPIC CHAMP KHELIF

Algeria’s Olympic boxing champion, Imane Khelif, sent her country into wild celebrations with her historic win.
But she hasn’t finished fighting yet, launching a legal battle against those who ‘harassed’ her over false claims she was a man.

Khelif defeated China’s Yang Liu to lift the women’s 66kg crown, after suffering days of online hate. It followed her victory in her first fight against an Italian opponent who quit within seconds, claiming she’d never been punched so hard.

Continued.....Media then focussed Khelif’s disqualification from last year’s world championships after failing unspecified ‘gender tests’.
However, Olympic chiefs cleared Imane to fight in Paris, claiming she’s always been a woman. Sadly, that didn’t stop prominent figures like Donald Trump, Elon Musk and author JK Rowling also casting doubt on her gender.

Imane’s lawyers are now taking action over ‘aggravated cyber-harassment’ and have filed a complaint with a special unit at the Paris prosecutor’s office. It will decide whether to open an investigation.

After winning gold on Friday, Imane said it had been her dream for eight years, adding her success gave her a ‘special taste because of those attacks.’

It also sparked special celebrations in Algeria, which has a new sporting hero. Just have a look at these pictures!

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EX-FAR-RIGHT THUG: ‘I REALISED I’M ABSOLUTE SCUM’

In this interview on Good Morning Britain, former senior member of the National Front Matt Collins admits that “we've scapegoated immigrants and asylum seekers and refugees.”

While the British public certainly have legitimate grievances that need to be addressed - such as the state of the National Health Service, housing and the cost of living - Collins asserts that scapegoating immigrants has been a trap many White Brits have fallen into. It’s a tactic commonly employed by the political class to distract from their failings and from finding real solutions. Like many of the violent rioters who were out across England and Northern Ireland recently, he misdirected his anger towards immigrants.

Continued.....His realisation that newcomers to the UK weren’t to blame - and that far-right extremism was not the answer - came during a violent rampage in which Asian women were attacked with hammers and had their heads stamped on. Watch as he relates his ‘conversion’ and let us know your reactions in the comments.

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CONGO CAN POWER & FEED AFRICA

Every year on 2 August, people organise events in honour of the lives lost in the ongoing gen*cide in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The day was baptised as Congolese Genocide Memorial Day by @genocost, an initiative led by diaspora-based Congolese who have formed the Congolese Action Youth Platform.

@urgencespanafricaniste hosted the vigil in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

There, African Stream journalist and president of @burkinabooks, Inemesit Richardson, reminded the public of how badly the imperialists want to control the DRC.

Continued….. According to the European Union Generalised Scheme of Preferences, the DRC is the most resource-rich country on Earth, with 64 per cent of the global supply of coltan, a mineral used to power smartphones, laptops, tablets and electric cars. NGO Friends of the Congo (@congofriends) says Congo has enough arable farmland to feed three times the African population each year and the Congo River has enough hydroelectric capacity to power the entire African continent, plus excess to export worldwide.

Now you can see why Pan-Africanists everywhere should fight for the liberation of the Congo!

ZIMBABWEAN CATTLE FARMER BREAKS BANK WITH $400K BULL PURCHASE

One of the frequent attacks against Zimbabwe’s land reform programme is that it’s ‘doomed to fail’ because Africans can’t farm.

However, many Black farmers across the country are proving that notion wrong. One of them is Collen Tafireyi, who runs a successful cattle breeding business in the country’s eastern region, providing many jobs and contributing to the growth of the country’s cattle industry.

He recently made headlines after paying R8 million rands (US$444,000) for a prized breeding bull called Cyclone at an auction in neighbouring South Africa.

Continued……The price was an African record and set tongues wagging, with many wondering if it was really worth the money. However, Collen insists it’s worth every penny as it will help him become the biggest cattle breeder on the African continent.

He definitely sounds like a man who knows what he is doing, and we love to see Africans breaking records and stereotypes.

Zimbabwe’s land reform programme saw millions of hectares of land transferred from White-settler farmers to Indigenous Zimbabweans in the 1990s. It gave people like Collen the chance to succeed. Let’s just say he took his opportunity by the horns.

Video credit: Farmspace and Farmers Weekly SA

TIGRAY REFUGEES ‘WAIT FOR DEATH’

The war between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front and Ethiopia's government officially ended two years ago, but more than a million people remain displaced. In this clip, one Tigray refugee within Ethiopia says he and others like him are simply “waiting for death.” Aid operations are being scaled back, making essentials harder to get.

It is a similar story with Sudanese refugees stuck in Ethiopia. They too face severe shortages of essentials such as food, and are being targeted by local criminal militias. Some have even been trying to be return to Sudan, a war zone. The UN says it has received less than 20% of the funding required to address the needs of refugees from Sudan.

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