jnkaranja007-pixel/african-street-journal

Daily AI-researched briefs, market data, farm signals and diaspora tools for all 55 African countries. # The African Street Journal **Read it →** A daily newspaper for all 55 African countries. Every morning an assignment desk ranks six candidates per country and publishes five original, source-cited stories on ASJ. Alongside the news sits a country dossier — economy, markets, agriculture, atlas — read through the lens you choose: **farmer**, **investor**, or **diaspora**. *From the streets, for the streets.* --- ## What's in it - **The Wire** — a continental front page: lead story, topic filters, search, past editions, and a three-country compare table. - **55 country dossiers** — live population, weather and local time; World Bank GDP and growth; the national exchange and its listings; a stylized GIS atlas with cities, rivers, landmarks and critical infrastructure. - **Three audience lenses** — farmers get crop calendars, market hubs and export routes; investors get the economy chart, market heat map and sector brief; the diaspora gets a live FX send-home calculator and remittance context. - **A watchlist** — follow countries and they surface on the landing page. - **Works offline** — installable, and the last edition stays readable without a connection. ## How the data stays honest Every figure carries its provenance, and the app never pretends to know more than it does: | Layer | Source | |---|---| | News stories | Weighted six-candidate assignment desk, grounded writer, and real outlet citations | | GDP, growth, history | World Bank API (refreshed monthly, vintage shown on every figure) | | Exchange rates | open.er-api.com, with the "as of" date displayed | | Weather | Open-Meteo | | Remittances | World Bank / KNOMAD | | Relief shading, crop windows | Labeled *stylized* and *indicative* — they are illustrative, not survey data | A country without a complete five-story desk shows its **region's wire** rather than a dead end. Nothing is invented to fill a gap. ## How it runs itself | Schedule | Job | |---|---| | Daily, 05:00 UTC | Desk ranks six candid …