Lesotho recruits male midwives

Good news! Bravo! So much for gender equality in Africa!

"As Lesotho health officials aim to lower the country’s maternal mortality rate, they are recruiting more men into a vital role usually left to women: midwifery.

~300 male midwives now provide care across the country, often traversing wide rural regions to assist underserved communities.

Stark care gaps: In Lesotho, ~530 women die for every 100,000 live births—more than 2X the global average. ..."

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Midwife Sehloho Ntlhane leans over a pregnant patient and uses a Pinard horn to listen to the baby’s heartbeat during a prenatal exam at Mpharane Health Center, Lesotho, on July 10, 2026. (Source)

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An ancient social safety net in Africa was built on beads

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The headline of this article is quite misleading! Welfare states or anything like it did not exist some 30,000 years ago during the age of hunter and gatherers! What we are dealing here are probably economic or gift exchanges or more sinister plunder and loot. Plus, the region of what is now the small state of Lesotho does not represent Africa!

"Some of these carefully crafted beads — excavated at two high-altitude rock-shelters in the African nation of Lesotho — were found to have originated more than 100 kilometers away, while others came from more than 300 kilometers away ... Beads may have been given as gifts to create a sense of indebtedness and unity across groups, thus damping down cultural differences between disparate hunter-gatherer populations."

"Geological studies have indicated that sharp climate fluctuations between around 58,000 and 24,000 years ago caused ecological havoc in inland Africa" 
Notice, this was long before humans produced any CO2 in large quantities! Or where humans then slash and burn large areas?

An ancient social safety net in Africa was built on beads | Science News: A Stone Age network of communities across southern Africans was established using ostrich shell beads by around 33,000 years ago. Ostrich eggshell beads suggest the long-distance network was established by 33,000 years ago