Overtourism sparks backlash in Spain, world's 2nd most visited country. Citizens want visitors to go home/ stay away. The Canaries alone rcvd 16M visitors last year, over 7 times its population of 2.2M .Amos Wekesa you’d be happy to have this problem?
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First, Chad security forces killed prominent opposition Yaya Dillo in Feb. That opened an easy path for interim military strongman Mahamat Deby (R) to win the May 6 presidential election. First, though, he needed a safe opposition to his bid. Enter Succes Masra (L), the PM who…

The world installed 117 gigawatts of new wind power capacity in 2023, a 50% increase from the year before, making it the best year for new wind projects on record
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9 corpses found adrift in boat off Brazil were likely migrants from Mauritania and Mali, police say
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Hmmh, Kenya has over 1.3 MILLION private security officers/guards.
-102,000 police officers
-30,000 military personnel
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Growing up, Juleus Ghunta struggled to read. Then a young teacher saw his potential. Today he is a published children's author and award-winning poet
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What a fly on a wall says it heard: “In several countries only occasionally does manna fall from heaven. Most times it falls from the Central Bank tower and Treasury building”😉

Goldman Sachs tips Nigeria to become 5th world’s largest economy with $13.1 TRILLION GDP - by 2075!
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Canadian company gets green light to sell GMO non-browning apple. “Arctic apples” are sold pre-sliced or diced with the promise of staying fresh and avoiding browning for UP TO 28 DAYS thanks to bioengineering tweaks to the apples’ genetic codes😳😳
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A new art gallery in Tokyo, Japan, aims to become a centre for contemporary African art
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Young Ugandans tangle in the mud. They dream of becoming professional wrestlers
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The Sudanese civil war has terribly affected the country, killing over 15,000 and displacing 8 million – and has left no seminarians and almost no Catholic Church. Catholics represented only 5% of the population
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Bad boys get good girls: Study in DRC and Tanzania finds aggressive bonobo males attract more female mates
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Bizarre video footage captured the moment Kenyan and Ethiopian runners appeared to wave a Chinese athlete ahead of them during the Beijing Half Marathon on Sunday, allowing him to win first place🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Somali pirates say hijacked ship released after payment of US$5 million ransom. Might we soon see a new injection of “pirate capital” in the region, given that Somalia is now a member of the EAC? Things have a way of playing out in 'interesting' ways
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Tanzania floods kill nearly 60 in first half of month asaaseradio.com/tanzania-flood…