Experts call for boys and girls to learn about periods together
Education reform in schools could drastically decrease stigma around menstruation, according to research. Now excuse me for being brash, but when I read that experts were calling for boys and girls to receive period education together I thought ‘umm, duh?’ This ostensibly revolutionary insight feels, to me, like common sense. And...
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The Gen Z innovator changing lives across Africa, Elly Savatia
Across Africa, thousands of deaf individuals remain at a disadvantage when it comes to accessing education, healthcare, and work - simply because no tool exists to enable them to communicate. But a young Kenyan entrepreneur is demonstrating that locally-made technology can change that paradigm. Globally, according to the Burgeon...
‘Buy Now Pay Later’ services want women in ‘cute debt’
The distinctly gendered marketing of these financial services is pushing women into a phenomenon known as ‘cute debt’. I hate to be the popcorn feminist who assumes anything pink must be targeting women – but let’s face it, marketing is often a simple as it seems. In fact, that’s kind of...
Spain proposes ban to stop world’s first octopus farm
With the culinary demand for octopuses increasing, a Spanish company is planning to develop an octopus farm to keep supplies steady. However, with the sentience of these creatures deemed unfit for farming, Spain is rushing to ban such a development. In the fight for animal rights, one major contender of...
European leaders’ united front joins Zelenskyy at the White House
The meeting saw Trump being more civilised to the Ukrainian leader after European officials joined to discuss the current war, following a similar meeting with Putin. Nobody has been more obsessed with a Nobel Peace Prize than President Donald Trump has. The White House claimed that he had brokered...
UK students being forced to work 20 hour weeks to make ends meet
A new report shows first-years need £260 a week (excluding rent) for a ‘socially acceptable’ standard of living – forcing many to take on jobs that leave little room for the studies they came for. The news that UK students are being forced to work 20 hours a week just...
Nigeria’s illegal bird-trafficking trade is worsening
Nigeria's customs agency caught more than 1,600 parrots and canaries headed to Kuwait. Officials call this the country's 'largest' wildlife-trafficking bust by number. The shipment was seized at Lagos' Murtala Muhammed International Airport. This incident is indicative of a broader, ongoing issue - Nigeria as a source and transit point for illegal wildlife trade, which treaties such as CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild...
New maps reveal greatest mammal migration ever seen
Survey maps published last month have revealed more than six million animals moving through an unmonitored area of South Sudan and Ethiopia in the largest migration of antelope in the world. A recent survey of an untouched landscape in South Sudan has revealed the largest land mammal migration ever seen on Earth. The aerial survey, conducted in a collaboration between African Parks and the South Sudanese Ministry of Wildlife Conservation...
Africa’s youth is fighting injustice with memes
If you're African and online, chances are your first taste of politics came not from a news broadcast, but from a meme. A screenshot. A freeze-frame. A line of text in Impact font. Maybe it made you laugh, then made you think. Maybe it made you mad enough to post, to protest, to speak. Across the continent, memes have emerged as one of Gen Z’s sharpest weapons against injustice, a...
France’s new bill to speed up the restitution of looted African artefacts
The post-Napoleonic era saw a surge in colonial loot as France scrambled to conquer Africa. Now, the nation’s new bill hopes to speed up the process of returning these objects to their places of origin. Centuries after the colonial era’s looting practices, the legacies of the stolen artefacts continue to affect former colonies. Many of these loots remain within the confines of Western museums and private collections, far from their...
