Police forces across England plan to respond to fewer mental health calls — here’s why: The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley has announced that the London police force is to attend fewer mental health emergencies. As part of an approach called Right Care, Right Person, police officers will only respond to 999 mental health calls …
What are meteorites? I visit and study the craters they’ve left across our planet: Impact cratering, caused by meteorites colliding with planetary surfaces, is one of the most fundamental cosmic processes. Eshma/Shutterstock Tens of thousands of asteroids – that we know of – are roaming our solar system. These are building blocks made up of …
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Being queer in Africa: the state of LGBTIQ+ rights across the continent: Rajesh Jantilal/AFP via Getty Images In recent years several African countries have decriminalised same-sex relationships. But they’re not representative of the continent. In fact, queer rights at times appear to be eroding in much of the continent, with Kenya and Uganda most recently …
Ukraine war: what we know so far about reports of battles being fought across the border in Russia: Reports have emerged of fighting inside Russia involving pro-Ukraine or anti-Putin troops engaged in combat in the Belgorod Oblast. This is a region close to Russia’s border with Ukraine, with a mixed Russian and Ukrainian ethnic population. …
MobileGPT Unleashes the Power of AI Chatbot Technology on WhatsApp for Users Across Africa: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and OpenAI’s flagship software, the AI chatbot ChatGPT, have garnered widespread excitement in recent months. With advancements in natural language processing, personalization, and automation, AI tools like ChatGPT are transforming various industries and unlocking new possibilities. Now, the …
Some Neanderthals hunted bigger animals, across a larger range, than modern humans: Neanderthals were evolutionary cousins to our species, Homo sapiens. Chettaprin.P / Shutterstock The region of Estremadura in Portugal was home to a band of Neanderthals – an ancient evolutionary relative of modern humans – about 95,000 years ago. They made use of the …
Sudan’s conflict will have a ripple effect in an unstable region – and across the world: The raging conflict in Khartoum could negatively affect trade flows through Port Sudan to the rest of the world. Getty Images Sudan, Africa’s third largest country by land mass, shares borders with seven countries in an unstable region. This …
Amapiano Awards: South Africa’s dance music scene spreads its joy across the world: Rising amapiano star DBN Gogo performs in Dakar, Senegal. John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images In 2019 amapiano began to dominate South Africa’s dance floors to such an extent that, by 2021, the first South African Amapiano Awards were held to mark the …
Free movement of people across Africa: regions are showing how it can work: A border crossing between Uganda and Kenya at Malaba. The two countries have made strides in improving mobility between them. Photo by Brian Ongoro/AFP via Getty Images The end of January 2023 will mark five years since the African Union Free Movement …
Elephant poaching rates vary across Africa: 19 years of data from 64 sites suggest why: YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images It’s a grim and all too common sight for rangers at some of Africa’s nature reserves: the bullet-riddled carcass of an elephant, its tusks removed by poachers. African elephant populations have fallen by about 30% …
Iran: dissent by public figures has amplified the protest across the country – and the world: Iran’s Islamic Republic continues to violently suppress ongoing pro-democracy protests, which broke out in September in response to the killing of a young woman who had been arrested for not wearing a proper head covering. According to the NGO …
China’s ‘white paper’ protest movement echoes freedom struggles across Asia and the world: If there was a single trigger for the “white paper” uprising that has been sweeping China over the past few days, it was events in Ürümchi, the capital of Xinjiang province. Xinjiang’s lockdown has been the most severe in China, with many …
Iran protest at enforced hijab sparks online debate and feminist calls for action across Arab world: Iranian authorities have cracked down on protests which erupted after the death in custody of a 22-year-old woman who was arrested by the morality police for not wearing the hijab appropriately. The death of Mahsa Amini who was reportedly …
Fotech and C3SS launch technology partnership to transform oil and gas security across Africa: 16 September 2022, Hampshire, England – Fotech, a bp launchpad company and pioneer in fibre enabled Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technology, has signed a non-exclusive MOU with C3SS, a South Africa-based perimeter and infrastructure security company, to target specific African markets. …
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Why the London 2012 Olympics had limited impact on volunteering across the UK: When London was preparing to host the 2012 Olympic Games, 250,000 people signed up to volunteer as official “Games Makers”. Of these, 70,000 people were ultimately selected to wear the distinctive purple-and-red volunteer uniforms. For 40% of them, it was the first …
Cryptocurrencies are gaining ground across Africa. That’s both good news and bad: Some of the of 19,000 private cryptos in use by end of June 2022. Users have increased sharply in Africa after the COVID-19 outbreak. Silas Stein/Picture Alliance via Getty Images Cryptocurrencies have become popular in African and other developing countries. That’s according to …