Another Awesome AfriCAN week 20190926

#Ethiopia

Congratulations to Ethiopia for setting a world record for planting 350 million trees in 12 hours! That is absolutely incredible.

The burst of tree planting was part of a wider reforestation campaign named "Green Legacy," spearheaded by the country's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Millions of Ethiopians across the country were invited to take part in the challenge and within the first six hours, Ahmed tweeted that around 150 million trees had been planted.

"We're halfway to our goal," he said and encouraged Ethiopians to "build on the momentum in the remaining hours." After the 12-hour period ended, the Prime Minister took to Twitter again to announce that Ethiopia not only met its "collective #GreenLegacy goal," but exceeded it.

A total of 353,633,660 tree seedlings had been planted, the country's minster for innovation and technology, Getahun Mekuria, tweeted.

Read the full story via CNN

#Kenya

Photo by Fran Liu

I think the world has fallen in love with this rare polka dot zebra foal spotted in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Park. His name, Tira.  He has a condition called pseudomelanism, a rare genetic mutation in which animals display some sort of abnormality in their stripe pattern, says Ren Larison, a biologist studying the evolution of zebra stripes at the University of California, Los Angeles. Story via National Geographic

#Madagascar

Photo via Rova Caviar

The island nation of Madagascar is now Africa’s first, and so far only, source of caviar. They are producing some of the world’s best caviar for haute cuisine. It’s set to release 5 tons of caviar into the global market this year. Via Robbreport

#SouthAfrica

A massive congratulations and thank you,  to whoever started the #ImStaying Facebook page.It's already got over 220 000 members in less than a month. It's exactly what we needed to remind us of our wonderful, beautiful and diverse country. It's inspiring to read all the positive stories.We are a great country, we have amazing people and we have incredibly inspiring stories to share. I am definitely staying!