Channel
@theafricabrief
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Posts · Cite this entry
37subscribers
-2 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001441184829 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @theafricabrief |
| Created | Between 1 April 2019 and 31 October 2021— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 10 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 29 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 2 times, most recently 29 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/theafricabrief |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Aug 2026, 15:18 | 37 | -1 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 04:24 | 38 | -1 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 20:30 | 39 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 23:51 | 39 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 20 December 2022 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 24 June 2023. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
*AfricaBrief: In-depth coverage of Malawi and Africa* Stay up-to-date with 📰 news, 💡 analysis, and 💬 commentary from the continent. Support a platform that is committed to providing 💯 high-quality journalism about Africa. 🆓 Subscribe today and start exploring the continent! Link: https://africabrief.substack.com
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#AfricaBrief: Tune in to our first episode, Sinetre's Music Initiative Helps Malawi Youth Overcome Life's Challenges, which highlights the challenges faced by many young people in Malawi, including poverty, unemployment, and unequal opportunities. The episode features Charles Sinetre, the founder of Nkhadze Youth Alive, who is using music to transform the lives of young people in Balaka district. Feel free to giv…
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BBC News - World Lionel Messi World Cup Instagram post is most-liked ever The Argentine footballer has picked up more than 57 million likes for his collection of photos.
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BBC News - World Islamic police raid 'gay wedding' in Nigeria's Kano city Nearly 20 guests have been detained, but the couple who planned to marry are on the run.
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BBC News - World BBC correspondent mobbed by joyous Argentina fans The BBC's Katy Watson is surrounded by fans when reporting on World Cup celebrations in Buenos Aires.
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @theafricabrief. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 22 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The AfricaBrief” (@theafricabrief), 37 subscribers as measured 22 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/theafricabrief.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.