Daily AI-researched briefs, market data, farm signals and diaspora tools for all 55 African countries.
# The African Street Journal
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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.*
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## 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 …