AFRICA

Africa hemorrhages a staggering $580 billion each year due to corruption and illicit capital flight, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has revealed. This bleeding of resources is eroding economic stability, hampering infrastructure development, and exacerbating a mounting debt crisis—an alarm sounded by AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina in a recent Bloomberg interview.

The African Union (AU) has recently thrown its full support behind the “Correct The Map” campaign, demanding an end to the widespread use of the Mercator projection by governments and international organizations. In its place, the AU—and a growing chorus of cartographers, educators, and activists—are championing the Equal Earth projection, a modern, equal-area map that reflects Africa’s real scale.

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In the long and winding journey of nations, there comes a moment when conscience must rise higher than comfort, and integrity must stand taller than politics. Today, Malik Basintale, Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), has sounded such a clarion call — a call that echoes from the lips of the ordinary youth in Suame, from the tired market women of Agbogbloshie, and from the weary street cleaners of Accra.

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