Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age hunter-gatherers
By Jessica C. Thompson, Elizabeth Sawchuk & Jessica Cerezo-Román Near the equator, the Sun hurries below the horizon in a matter of minutes. Darkness seeps from the surrounding forest. Nearly 10,000 years ago, at the base of a mountain in Africa, people’s shadows stretch up the wall of a natural overhang of stone. They’re lit
Latin America in 2025: Conservation promises collide with crime and extraction
By Mie Hoejris Dahl MEXICO CITY — Throughout 2025, Latin America remained a battleground between efforts to conserve some of the world’s most valuable ecosystems and mounting pressure from organized crime and legal extractive industries pushing into new frontiers. Home to about 40% of the world’s known species, Latin America is one of the world’s most biodiverse
Did Ghana Police arrest Ebo Noah? What we know so far
By Nathaniel Kyere Bekoe Social media has been abuzz with news of a man popularly known as Ebo Noah, who claims to have built an ark to save humanity ahead of an impending flood on Dec. 25, 2025. His video has garnered millions of views locally and globally. The Ebo Noah Fuss A Ghanaian social media user claims that he
Israel’s recognition of Somaliland: A turning point in the Horn of Africa
By Jamal Abdi From post-conflict success story to geopolitical flashpoint, Somaliland’s long quest for recognition is entering a decisive phase. Upon gaining independence from British colonial rule on 26 June 1960, Somaliland received full recognition from 35 states, including all permanent members of the UN Security Council. On 1 July 1960, it merged with Italian Somalia.
Why procrastination isn’t laziness – it’s rigid thinking that your brain can unlearn
By Annemieke Apergis-Schoute Most of us have experienced it: a deadline approaches, the task is perfectly doable, yet instead of starting, we suddenly feel compelled to tidy a drawer or reorganise the apps on our phone. Procrastination feels irrational from the outside but gripping from the inside. Although it’s often framed as a failure of
