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LEAD AWARENESS WEEK | KABWE, ZAMBIA As part of International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week (18–24 October), Environment Africa Zambia launched UNDENIABLE: Anglo American’s Role in the Kabwe Sacrifice Zone. Get involved: actsa.org/justice-for-... #JusticeForKabwe

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 257 of The Continent Four months ago, tens of thousands of Malawians were repatriated as they fled xenophobic violence in South Africa. Now, the buses are heading back. bit.ly/TC_257

There will never be another Wikipedia, “one of the strangest and most outlandish successes of its time.”

Happy Zambian independence day especially to whoever opened an online shopping business in Lusaka and called it AmeZam.

In Mozambique heat indexes have locally risen >55C, the worst feel-like ever recorded anywhere in Southern Africa. There has never been anything like this or anything close. Records of High Minimums were locally broken by 8C in Zambia,where nearly 100% of the stations broke them

Interesting project, digitalising the ZCTU archives. An important player in Zambian politics particularly through its President Freddie Chiluba, who then defeated Kaunda as President of the Republic

A landslide in Sumatra killed four illegal gold miners, just months after nine died in a similar disaster. Driven by record global gold prices, over 20 million small-scale miners worldwide face deadly landslips and exposure to neurotoxic mercury to make a living. Read the full story.

Years ago I saw a truck in Zambia with "Tanzanian Tigers Never Cry" written on its side. I often think about this and what it could mean.

⛴️ Ferry Tales On the Likoni Ferry in Mombasa, crossing are traders, schoolkids, cars, and a few thousand stories that never make it to the dock. Our new series follows Africa's ferries, from Abidjan to Lagos to Malabo, Dar es Salaam to Maputo, and those who ride them every day.

What does a gem curator see beyond the sparkle? Join Gabriela Farfan behind the scenes at the Smithsonian to explore the science and stories inside its extraordinary mineral collection in our latest video. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/minerals-earth-geology-gabriela-farfan

In the late nineteenth century, Black American missionaries began to work within King Leopold's Congo. For Black History month, Adrita Mitra explores how women like Nora Gordon navigated the tensions between emancipation and colonial rule.

It's 60 years today since the disaster at Aberfan. Last month we went to Big Pit National Coal Museum and recorded interviews with Sheila Davies and Major David Tribble who were part of the relief operations. The recordings will be preserved in our archive. www.salvationarmy.org.uk/news/memorie...

Today we remember the 144 people, including 116 children, who died during the tragedy of the Aberfan disaster 60 years ago ❤️ On the morning of 21 October 1966, the colliery spoil tip above the Welsh village of Aberfan collapsed, sending a vast slurry down the hill towards Pantglas Junior School.

#OTD 1966 • Aberfan Disaster 🥀 On Friday the 21st of October 1966, a wave of coal waste slid down the Aberfan Valley, taking the lives of 116 children and 28 adults with it. #Wales #History

Trying to read a PDF has become a challenge with Adobe's garbage software. At one stage I had a hefty sub to them for all the image & video editing software, then binned it after it tripled overnight. Now, look at the joy of trying to read an article - in what world is this helpful:

Found a completely fascinating program today in the archives of the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel: French int'l radio exchange SORAFOM organised a series of radio clubs in Niger that weren't just listening clubs or pedagogical devices for farmers like the UNESCO Farm Radio Forums, they

I'm very pleased to see my report on historic toxic mining pollution in Kabwe is being shared and discussed today with residents in the town. You can read the report here: actsa.org/new-report-h...

Today, Environment Africa Zambia is hosting a breakfast event in Kabwe to bring the findings of ACTSA's report, UNDENIABLE: Anglo American’s Role in the Kabwe Sacrifice Zone, to the heart of the community. Get involved, support the campaign: actsa.org/justice-for-... #JusticeForKabwe

At the peak of the HIV epidemic, AIDS caused more than half of all deaths in some countries. The HIV epidemic — which started in the early 1980s and progressed rapidly in the 1990s — has had lasting impacts that continue today. More than 800,000 people still die from HIV/AIDS every year.

So, here's a spectacular double-bill, kicking off with "“Smoke and At Least Die Happy”: Media Framing of the Smoking-Cancer Conundrum in Southern Rhodesia, 1950s–1960s" from Sibanengi Ncube, followed right up with ...

Me and @robrechtdeclercq.bsky.social take a long-term view on the question 'How do you find minerals?' in our new article for Mining Journal: www.mining-journal.com/mj-comment/o...

This is a thought-provoking article and this bit has much wider relevance to theories of human behaviour: "the theory is just a speculative ‘just so’ story to explain a bit of modern behaviour when actually different historical societies have very different assumptions"

The Anthropocene is widely used without fixed definition. In this Nature Reviews Earth & Environment Perspective article the authors identify 1952, marked by a sharp increase in plutonium from nuclear tests, as a key point for defining the Anthropocene. go.nature.com/4i0IdFX 🌍🧪

🚨Tomorrow Dejan Lukić presents “From Private Enterprise to Public Collection: The Business of Collecting Meteorites in 19th-Century America.” Joint meeting with the HoSK Colloquium. Don't forget to register and join us! ☄️ #Scarce 📅 Oct 20, 2026 ⏰ 11:30–13:00 CET 👉Info: bit.ly/collectingmeteorites

Did Wage Labour Exist in Pre-Colonial Africa? A New History of African Workers. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/did-wage-l...

#OtD 17 Oct 1950 miners in New Mexico went on strike against the Empire Zinc Company for equal pay and treatment for whites and Mexicans. When strikers were banned from picketing, their wives took over and after 15 months they won stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8938...

All Protocol Observed Welcome to edition 256 of The Continent Nigeria bans exports of shea nuts – and creates a subsidy that profits everyone except its own farmers. bit.ly/256_TC

Really enjoying this one. She illustrates the defining feature of a world system and the clearest evidence one exists: that developments in one part affect developments in all parts and, conversely, that developments in any part are only explainable through examination of all parts. Relevant today.

New article! Jonathan M Jackson on 'Their Majesties and the Metropole: King Lewanika of Barotseland in Britain and the Coronation of King Edward VII, 1902' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

We have a brand new page for research opportunities at The British Library - including fellowships, placements and residencies from all across the organisation. Add it to your bookmarks or, better yet, sign up for our Research Newsletter at the bottom of the page. www.bl.uk/services/res...

brb just going to my day job forcing dutch cities to rewrite their milieuzone rules to include coal-powered vehicles