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Africa

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

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    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

  • 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

  • Alexis Akwagyiram

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

    Alexis Akwagyiram
  • A young woman in a colourful headscarf with her face hidden

    ‘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

  • From the agencies
    Giraffe relocation in Kenya – in pictures

  • The age of extinction
    Donkeys in Kenya are dying with stomachs full of plastic – and other animals are at risk

22 July 2024

  • A nurse wearing surgical gloves pricks a person's finger to collect a blood sample

    Most new HIV infections occurred outside sub-Saharan Africa for first time – UN report

    African countries hailed for achievements, but UNAids says cases on the rise in other areas of the world

21 July 2024

  • Toumani Diabate, musician

    Toumani Diabaté obituary

    The Malian master of the kora who delighted in performing with musicians from other traditions and countries

18 July 2024

  • Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza

    Paul Kagame banned opponents like me from Rwanda’s election. No wonder he cruised to victory

    Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza
  • Protesters and Kenyan anti-riot police officers during anti-government protests in Nairobi on Tuesday.

    First Edition newsletter
    Thursday briefing: How one controversial bill has Kenya on the brink of disorder

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