West Africa’s trade monitoring system has collapsed - why this is dangerous for food security

A decade ago countries in West Africa set up a unique trade monitoring mechanism. Its purpose was to track intra-regional trade in agricultural products and livestock in the region. But the system was closed down in 2022 due to a lack of funding...

Teflon Diets, Zebra Cows, and Pizza-Loving Lizards: The 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes Celebrate Weird Science

The Ig Nobel Prizes are back and, as always, they prove that the intersection of humor and science can sometimes yield the most unexpected insights. Each year, the awards honor unusual research that might first make us laugh, but then leaves us...

Science The Guardian Teflon diet, garlic milk and zebra cows triumph at 2025 Ig Nobel prizes

For decades scientists, doctors and public health officials have battled to solve the obesity crisis. Now researchers have won an Ig Nobel prize for a radical new approach: slashing people’s calorie intake by feeding them Teflon. The left-field...

How Oludele Olaniyi Champions Reproductive Health in West Africa

With over two decades of service in clinical practice, research, and community health, Mrs. Esther Oludele Olaniyi has emerged as one of Nigeria’s most respected voices in public health and reproductive health advocacy. Born on August 17, 1970, in...

Africa’s Clean Air Funding Collapses 91 Percent Amid Crisis

International funding for outdoor air quality initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa plummeted by 91 percent in 2023, dropping from $129 million to just $11.8 million, according to Clean Air Fund analysis that exposes a dangerous funding crisis even as...

Public health emergency workshop underway in Accra

The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), through its Western Regional Coordinating Centre, has organised a risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) capacity strengthening workshop on public health emergencies....

Olaniyi Champions Maternal, Reproductive Health In West Africa

2 With over two decades of service in clinical practice, research, and community health, Mrs. Esther Oludele Olaniyi has emerged as one of Nigeria’s most respected voices in public health and reproductive health advocacy. Born on August 17, 1970,...

Ebola: Experts urge reactivation of health surveillance system

LAGOS – Amid reports of a new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), some health experts have called for reactivation and strengthening of the public health surveillance system. The experts made the call in separate interviews...

Grass faces new challenges in the fall. Dan Gill explains how to keep it healthy as growth slows.

Fall will officially start Monday on the Fall Equinox, but summer weather will linger a while longer here. Things are starting to change in our lawns though. The growth of grasses like St. Augustine, centipede, bermuda and zoysia begins to slow...

At WAMECA 2025, TheCable’s Jemilat Nasiru, Mansur Ibrahim win more awards

TheCable journalists, Jemilat Nasiru and Mansur Ibrahim, have been named winners at the 2025 West Africa Media Excellence Conference and Awards (WAMECA). Nasiru, a staff writer, and Ibrahim, the multimedia manager, jointly won the environmental...

Opinion: Deportees’ abuse claims tarnishing Ghana’s image

A growing number of reports have cast a grim shadow over Ghana’s treatment of citizens deported from the United States this year, with disturbing allegations of physical abuse, prolonged detention, and denial of legal access upon arrival at Kotoka...

Naked African refugee terrorizes small German town again and again

A naked refugee from Africa is continuously causing chaos in the small German town of Neuffen in the state of Baden-Württemberg. The man routinely strips naked and rampages through the town, with authorities “unable” to stop him for two years. The...

Analysis and Optimization of Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Configuration in Chinese Cities: A Case Study of Dongcheng District, Beijing

Introduction Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the primary health threat in China. It is estimated that there are currently 330 million CVD patients in China, and the prevalence rate remains in a continuous upward trend.1 In 2021, CVD accounted for...

Footage emerges of Sunderland star Noah Sadiki limping after shock DR Congo absence

Sunderland midfielder Noah Sadiki has been filmed walking with a limp after missing DR Congo’s qualifier Footage has emerged of Sunderland midfielder Noah Sadiki walking with a slight limp after he missed DR Congo’s World Cup qualifier against...

International student travel: What to know heading into the year about immigration policy shifts

Northwestern’s Office of International Student and Scholar Services has issued multiple warnings in the past academic year about heightened visa screening, visa application disruptions and travel risks regarding both new and returning...

Disturbing, sad scenes after star breaks neck

Togolese international footballer Samuel Asamoah has suffered a broken neck and is at a “high risk” of paralysis after colliding with a pitch-side advertising board. Asamoah was playing in a match for Guangxi Pingguo against Chongqing...

Top African footballer battles for life, involved in freak accident during football match

Togo international Samuel Asamoah has been involved in a freak accident after crashing into a pitch-side board in China Doctors warn that the 31-year-old midfielder may not walk again after breaking his neck in the injury Asamoah spent most of his...

Lady quits her ICU job abroad, books one-way ticket to Lagos to focus on her online business

A Nigerian lady resigned from her job in the National Health Service (NHS) and returned to Nigeria According to the lady, who is a registered nurse, she booked a one-way ticket to Lagos and now focuses on her online business Comparing her life...

Gerontocracy and Underdevelopment in Cameroon: Does It Not Ridicule Unconstitutional Change of Government?

Bola A. Akinterinwa Africa’s future does not have the potential to be bright if African scholars do not wake up on a more serious note to address obstacles militating against a greater Africa. It was in 1972 that Walter Rodney gave an exegesis of...

Soccer Star at Risk of 'High-Level Paraplegia' After Colliding with LED Advertising Board and Breaking Neck By Becca Longmire

NEED TO KNOW Togolese soccer star, Samuel Asamoah, is at risk of paraplegia after breaking his neck during a mid-game collision with an advertising board in China. Midfielder Asamoah, 31, collided headfirst with an LED advertising panel and...