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Africa

29 July 2024

  • A soldier stands guard near the fence on the Belarusian-Polish border in the forest near Bialowieza, Poland

    Beaten and conscripted into Putin’s army: a Somali refugee attempts to reach Europe

    Journalist Ilyas Ahmad Elmi hoped to join his wife and child in Germany when he fled Somalia – but the EU’s harsh border controls led him towards Russia’s war machine

28 July 2024

  • Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces in the East Nile province with rifles on top of a vehicle

    Girls as young as nine gang-raped by paramilitaries in Sudan – report

  • Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

    ‘She is one of our heroines’: reviled, now revered, Winnie Mandela wins over young South Africa

27 July 2024

  • A basketball player tries to block another player in front of a large crowd

    ‘A journey bigger than basketball’: South Sudan​ dreams of Olympic glory

    ​The underdog team’s astonishing journey to Paris has inspired the country – and fans across Africa – with hopes the Bright Stars will light the way for the next generation

26 July 2024

  • Women wearing brightly coloured prints walk through rows of solar panels.

    Green economy could generate 3.3m jobs across Africa by 2030 – report

  • A middle-aged white women standing on a stage talking to an unseen audience

    Fair Access
    Doctor behind trial of HIV prevention drug recounts breakthrough moment

25 July 2024

  • People search for victims of the second landslide to strike Gofa in south-western Ethiopia on Monday

    Death toll from Ethiopia landslides could reach 500, UN agency says

    Mudslide in Gofa zone on Monday traps people rescuing victims from a slide the previous day
  • A young black woman with a pangolin sitting on her shoulder smiles at the camera

    The age of extinction
    ‘They are so handsome’: the unusual day in the life of a pangolin carer

    At a wildlife centre in Mozambique, trafficked animals are fed, nursed, taken for walks and eventually released back to the wild. Vet Mércia Ângela describes what it’s like to bond with these rare and charismatic mammals

    • ‘Smoking gun’ evidence points to UAE involvement in Sudan civil war

    • Opinion
      Don’t look away! Why writers need to shout about Africa’s migration crisis

      Samuel Kọ́láwọlé

    • Science Weekly
      Trophy hunting: can killing and conservation go hand in hand? - podcast

24 July 2024

  • Three people on a beach next to a long wooden fishing boat.

    At least 150 people missing after boat capsizes off coast of Mauritania

  • Empty plates laid out to symbolise the 733.4 million people living with hunger worldwide. The central message in red reads: End the global food crisis now. Round the edge is written: Millions of people have empty plates every day

    Africa to overtake Asia with highest number of hungry people by 2030, says UN

  • PIC23 PIC23: From left to right, 17-year-old Ahmed Shahtout, 19-year-old Nour Shahtout, 57-year-old father Bassim Shahtout, 47-year-old mother Reem Shahtout, and 13-year-old Muhammed Shahtout. The family fled their home in Tel El-Hawa, Gaza, in October 2024 after it was bombed by the IDF and evacuated to Egypt in March, where they now live. (Hamada Elrasam for The Guardian)

    ‘Life has come to a standstill’: the Palestinian refugees struggling to survive in Egypt

  • Sierra Leone is facing a drug abuse epidemic with young people becoming addicted to ‘kush’ – a deadly cocktail containing chemicals and even human bones. The government has announced a crackdown on kush and called the crisis a national emergency as people are dying from its use

    12:57

    Inside the war on kush: The drug ‘mixed with human bones’ taking over Sierra Leone – video

23 July 2024

  • People stand at the bottom of a landslide

    At least 229 people dead in Ethiopia after heavy rain causes mudslides

    Officials say death toll could rise further as people use shovels and bare hands to search for survivors
  • Officers in khaki army fatigues hold a man with his arms in the air and the words Speaker Must Resign on his vest

    Scores arrested in Uganda at banned rally inspired by Kenya protests

    Police in Kampala stop and detain anti-corruption demonstrators after earlier round-up of opposition MPs

    • The Tories wrecked the UK’s relationship with Africa. Now Labour must revive it

      Alexis Akwagyiram

    • ‘They turn our farms into rape centres’: Russian mercenaries accused of abuse in Central African Republic

    • Suppliers to top essential oil brand left unpaid and afraid after abuse inquiry

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