Beninese farmers finally witness firsthand the local transformation of their products at Glo Djigbe Industrial zone, Benin🇧🇯

For years, the harvests of these farmers were shipped abroad, often to distant destinations like Vietnam, China, or Portugal, for processing and only sold

Tyla receives four BET Award nominations.

South Africa's Springbok Women win the Rugby Africa Women's Cup.

Thuso Mbedu, John Kani and Kagiso Lediga to feature in Mufasa: The Lion King.

South Africa qualify for the Men's 4x100m relay race at the Olympics.

Akani Simbine wins

In Zambia, Chinese people use Chinese restaurants, malls, farms, hotels, casinos.

They hire Chinese people at their companies.

They use Bank of China and make transactions in Yuan.

Zambia hired Chinese Police Officers in 2017.

Times of Zambia has articles in Chinese.

Zambia

In 2018, Joe Blankson swam 13 times and rescued 13 people out of 25 people involved in a boat accident in Rivers State, Nigeria.

He died when he swam for the 14th time to rescue another person.

He received a posthumous Presidential Special Award for Bravery and Patriotism.

Today, the Africa CEO Forum took place in Kigali, hosting 75 presidents and ministers, 1,000 CEOs, and hundreds of media representatives. The 'Made in Africa' narrative was a central focus of the forum, with Arise IIP highlighted as pioneers and key players of this movement

An Algerian man who has been missing for 26 years, has been found captive in his neighbour's underground pit.

He went missing at age 19 and is now 45. His family thought he died in the Civil War.

He said he couldn't call for help because his neighbour cast a spell on him.

His

A 74-year-old Ghanaian man, Nelson Shardey has been denied UK permanent residency despite living in the UK for 42 years.

He has dragged the Home Office to court, after being told to wait for 10 more years to be granted permanent residency.

He assumed he was a British citizen.

Samsung, LG, Nokia, Xiaomi, ACE Bosch, Vivo, Beko, Haier and Sumitomo opened their factories in Egypt.

Egypt is Africa’s largest manufacturer with an industrial outcome of $76 billion annually.

Fela Kuti's grandfather, Reverend Josiah Ransome-Kuti was a Musician.

Josiah Ransome-Kuti became the first Nigerian to release a music album in 1925.

Two of Fela's sons, Femi Kuti and Seun Kuti are both Grammy nominees.

His grandson, Made Kuti is a Grammy nominee.

Seyi Vibez 🇳🇬 and Tyler ICU 🇿🇦 have been nominated for the Viewer's Choice Best New International Act Award at the 2024 BET Awards.

South Africa's Springbok Women have won the 2025 Rugby Africa Women's Cup.

They have won all four editions of the Rugby Africa Women's Cup.

They have qualified for the 2025 Rugby World Cup in England.

They are ranked as the best Women's Rugby Team in Africa.

In 2020, China offered to give Tanzania a $10 billion loan to build a port if they agree to

• No construction of a new port

• Chinese to manage the port for 35 years and take all the revenue

• 99 year lease

President Magufuli refused, saying only a mad man would sign that

Thomas Sankara and Samora Machel were close friends.

Machel died in a plane crash in October 1986, while Sankara was assassinated in October 1987.

Fela Kuti went on exile in Ghana, after Nigerian soldiers burned his house in 1977 because of his song, Zombie.

In 1978, he was deported from Ghana on the orders of then Head of State, Ignatius Acheampong who feared that Fela would spark political unrest.

He was performing the

A video of a British tourist harassing a chicken seller for keeping chickens in a cage, sparked outrage in Morocco in 2019.

Popular TV series, Xena: Warrior Princess was inspired by the story of Nigeria's Queen Amina of Zaria.

Queen Amina ruled Zaria in present day Kaduna State in the 16th Century.

She didn't have kids, and murdered every man she had sex with to keep her affairs secret.

Dr. Kwame Nkrumah introduced free education in primary and middle schools in 1961.

He provided free healthcare.

He led Ghana to independence in 1957.

He was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), and won the 1962 Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union.

Ghana:s 1-year-old Ace Liam has broken the Guinness World Record for the World's Youngest Male Artist.

He started painting when he was 6 months old.