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20.08.26 - 14:01
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African Stampede For Kentucky Fried Chicken Causes Pandemonium (ZeroHedge)
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African Stampede For Kentucky Fried Chicken Causes Pandemonium
Kentucky Fried Chicken is running a once in a blue moon promotion to celebrate a 15 year franchise anniversary. The only problem is, they're doing it in West Africa in the country of Ghana where the poverty rate is 22% and the average yearly wage is $2630 USD.
The one-day deal (one piece of chicken, two tenders, and a small fry for GH¢15, roughly equivalent to $1.35 US) ran from 9 AM to 5 PM at locations across Ghana. The event unexpectedly drew massive crowds with no police presence, which resulted in a stampede at multiple locations that nearly developed into riots.
They opened a KFC in Africa and it goes exactly how you think it would.
I'm not even making this up. pic.twitter.com/TxbkiWY118
— Amiri King (@AmiriKing) August 18, 2026
The aftermath of chaos at KFC Ashaiman shows a shattered glass door panel after residents attempted to force their way into the branch, with officers of the Ghana Police Service having rest...
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20.08.26 - 10:42
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The West African Pipeline Is Inherently Geopolitical (ZeroHedge)
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The West African Pipeline Is Inherently Geopolitical
Authored by Andrew Korybko,
The West never does anything without some benefit to itself in mind.
The Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) formally endorsed the offshore Nigerian-Moroccan Pipeline in late July. Construction on this $25 billion megaproject is expected to begin in 2028 and stretch over 4,000 kilometers along the West African coast for supplying the EU with 30 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas a year. Nigeria's enhanced importance for the EU will place this official BRICS partner more firmly under Western influence and the same goes for the ECOWAS bloc that it leads.
While the 30 bcm is only around one-fifth of what Russia used to supply to the EU during the heyday of their energy trade, it nevertheless helps fuel the bloc's economy, and it'll also presumably be cheaper than the LNG that it began to import at scale from the US since sanctioning Russia back in 2022. Closer EU-Nigerian ties will complement...
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20.08.26 - 10:42
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By 2050, The World′s Most-Populous Cities Will All Be In Africa Or Asia (ZeroHedge)
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By 2050, The World's Most-Populous Cities Will All Be In Africa Or Asia
Across 150 years, familiar urban giants rise, fall, and give way to a new generation of megacities.
This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Gabriel Cohen, ranks the 15 most populous cities worldwide from 1950 to 2100 using population estimates from the European Commission's JRC via Our World in Data. City boundaries were consistently defined based on satellite imagery and population data.
The Transatlantic Era
Tokyo led the 1950 ranking with 12.6 million people, followed by New York with 9.3 million.
The Big Apple was not the only massive Western city at the time. Of the 15 most populous cities in 1950, over half were found in either Europe or the Americas. This included London (7.9 million), Moscow (5.5 million), and Paris (5.4 million).
The table below ranks the 15 most populous cities in 1950:
RankCityPopulation in 1950
(Millions)Region
1?? Tokyo12.6Asia
2?? New York City9.3North America
3?? Os...
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19.08.26 - 17:31
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Entwicklungshilfe beenden – sonst wird Afrika nie auf eigenen Füßen stehen (Tichys Einblick)
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Die Debatte um den Sinn und die Steuerung von Entwicklungsgeldern hat in diesem Jahr sichtlich an Dynamik gewonnen. Das freut mich sehr, da ich schon seit Jahren die Almosen für Afrika (dort fließt der größte Teil der Steuergelder hin) als realitätsfern und zweckentfremdet bemängelt habe. Ich muss immer wieder daran erinnern, dass die Hauptaufgabe der
Der Beitrag Entwicklungshilfe beenden – sonst wird Afrika nie auf eigenen Füßen stehen erschien zuerst auf Tichys Einblick....
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19.08.26 - 09:36
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Absa CEO: Africa Expansion Plan Progressing Well (Bloomberg)
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Absa Group is exploring the possibility of converting its representative office in Nigeria into a merchant bank. Chief Executive Officer Kenny Fihla also said he sees opportunities in Uganda, Zambia, Tanzania, Angola. He spoke to Bloomberg's Chief Africa correspondent, Jennifer Zabasajja, to discuss their plans after the group reported net income for the first half-year of 12.58 billion rand vs. 11.23 billion rand y/y. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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