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Africa

5 August 2025

  • Kigali skyline

    Rwanda agrees to take up to 250 migrants from the US

  • Rémy Amahirwa

    The west ignores Rwanda’s dark side – and political prisoners like my mother pay the price

    Rémy Amahirwa

4 August 2025

  • File shot of coastline near the Red Sea port of Hodeida in Yemen

    Scores dead as boat carrying more than 150 people capsizes off Yemen

  • Three black women sit on the ground. A younger woman holds a microphone in front of an older woman who is pointing into the distance as another older woman listens while holding another mic

    ‘Well, no, you don’t have to have children’: what African women over the age of 60 have learned about life

3 August 2025

  • Nigerian soldiers on patrol in an armed jeep

    Gunmen kidnap more than 50 people in north-west Nigeria

    Latest ‘mass capture’ in Zamfara state shows banditry crisis shifting from land conflict to organised crime
  • A woman looks into the camera with her hands clasped, sitting at a table.

    Family of Kenyan woman allegedly murdered by UK soldiers criticise defence secretary

    Niece of Agnes Wanjiru says she thinks John Healey is ‘taking us for a ride’
  • a pixelated map with the global south in red

    Breakthrough
    What will the AI revolution mean for the global south?

    Krystal Maughan
    We must avoid inequalities between the global north and global south being perpetuated in the digital age

1 August 2025

  • Kemi Badenoch

    Kemi Badenoch says she no longer sees herself as Nigerian despite upbringing

  • A view of the road leading to the fishing port in Dakhla, Western Sahara.

    Morocco’s rule over Western Sahara is widely accepted

31 July 2025

  • A sedated rhinoceros lying on the earth with people clustered around it

    Rhino horns made radioactive to foil traffickers in South African project

    Isotopes can be detected at airports and borders even in large containers and are harmless to the animals
  • Palestinians wait to receive food from a charity kitchen in Gaza City

    Echoes of Ethiopian famine in Gaza crisis

    Letters: The use of starvation as a weapon is nothing new, writes Gail Warden

    • Mballet dance academy in Thembisa, South Africa – in pictures

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    • France under pressure to stop $9.7m of USAID contraceptives being destroyed

    • Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity – report

30 July 2025

  • Esther Okoronkwo (centre) and her Super Falcons teammates.

    The Long Wave
    As England’s Lionesses roared, Nigeria’s queens of Africa made football history

    Newsletter
  • Woman applying cream to her face.

    Colonial ideas of beauty: how skin-lightening products are linked to cancer in black African women

29 July 2025

  • Jubilant Nigeria fans welcome Rasheedat Ajibade home with the Wafcon trophy in Abuja.

    Moving the Goalposts newsletter
    How Nigeria completed ‘Mission X’ and won their 10th Wafcon crown

    Newsletter
  • Two men watch another man on a climbing wall

    ‘It’s all about trusting yourself, pushing your limits’: Malawi’s first climbers take their sport to new heights

  • Patrice Lumumba holding his raised arms for the camera

    ‘Lumumba everlasting’: Belgium marks Congo’s slain leader’s 100th birthday with exhibition – and possible trial

  • A family group of gorillas lounges amid greenery.

    The age of extinction
    Gorilla habitats and pristine forest at risk as DRC opens half of country to oil and gas drilling bids

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