Elon Musk: "I did originally come to North #America with like 2500 bucks Canadian, or 2000 US, one bag of books and one bag of clothes in Montreal at age of 17. So that is how I started out."

I try not laugh at this, a beneficiary of apartheid South #Africa telling a lie as usual.

Elon Musk: "I did originally come to North #America with like 2500 bucks Canadian, or 2000 US, one bag of books and one bag of clothes in Montreal at age of 17. So that is how I started out."

I try not laugh at this, a beneficiary of apartheid South #Africa telling a lie as usual.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c... 1/ "Solar has risen from almost nothing in 2019 to roughly 10 percent of South Africa’s electricity-generating capacity" #solar #battery #EV #China #Africa #solarpunk #hopepunk

Cheap Solar Is Transforming Li...

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c... 1/ "Solar has risen from almost nothing in 2019 to roughly 10 percent of South Africa’s electricity-generating capacity" #solar #battery #EV #China #Africa #solarpunk #hopepunk

Cheap Solar Is Transforming Li...

#AfricanNews accounts to follow:

➡️ @thecontinent - Pan-African online newspaper run by non-profit based in South Africa
➡️ @TUKOcoke - Kenyan online news site
➡️ @ZekuZelalem - Award-winning investigative reporter covering Ethiopia and Horn of Africa
➡️ @beverly_ochieng - Security & media analyst focused on Africa
➡️ @teachersupdates - Education news in Kenya
➡️ @index - Business news in Mozambique

#Africa #African #Kenya #Ethiopia

Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.

Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-food-program-starvation-children-deaths?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #USAID #Hunger #USPolitics #Trump #MarcoRubio #Africa #Kenya

If you thought the world has gotten more fair over the past one hundred years, please think again. #exploitation #resources #oil #CrudeOil #petrol #minerals #africa #activism #environment #climate

When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-usaid-kenya-humanitarian-aid-starvation-families-children?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Kenya #Africa #USAID #Family #Children #Trump #MarcioRubio #Politics

Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.

Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-food-program-starvation-children-deaths?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #USAID #Hunger #USPolitics #Trump #MarcoRubio #Africa #Kenya

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
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Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a result.
https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #MarcoRubio #Africa #PublicHealth #USAID #SouthSudan

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #479: Lake Natron.

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#lakenatron #alkalilake #saltlake #saltflat #weirdplaces #africa #nature #volcanoes #cursed #weirdfacts #funfacts #didyouknow #strangebuttrue #webcomics #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #479: Lake Natron.

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#lakenatron #alkalilake #saltlake #saltflat #weirdplaces #africa #nature #volcanoes #cursed #weirdfacts #funfacts #didyouknow #strangebuttrue #webcomics #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
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Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a result.
https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #MarcoRubio #Africa #PublicHealth #USAID #SouthSudan