Africa
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High court had thrown out the president’s attempt to appeal against a ruling he should face 800 corruption charges
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World heritage site in Mali featuring elaborate pre-Islamic structures is placed on danger list amid fears it cannot be protected in face of regional unrest
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Mangar Makur Chuot left Sudan as a child after his father was killed during the civil war. He lived for eight years in a refugee camp in Kenya before his family were granted asylum in Australia. To launch the Guardian’s Dear Australia series, we tell the remarkable story of South Sudan’s 200 metres hopeful and how he’s heading to the Olympic Games and a possible match-up with Usain Bolt
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Troops arrived on Tuesday to help protect US citizens and the US embassy ‘until the security situation becomes such that their presence is no longer needed’
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Court has ruled it was unconstitutional to change charges against Evan Mawarire to attempting to overthrow government
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Social media has gone into speculation overdrive after Yoweri Museveni was photographed talking to a mystery caller from a foldout chair
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This weekend the African Union unveiled an e-passport that will hopefully be available to all citizens of member states by 2018
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Deadly clashes between nomadic herdsmen and locals have escalated but analysts blame land scarcity not Islamic extremism
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Evan Mawarire, who has been in hiding since suspected abduction attempt, held after leading national shutdown last week
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Activists say social media has given them the collective courage to speak out against Robert Mugabe’s 36-year rule
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Aimee Pistorius thanks judge Thokozile Masipa for recognising that ‘this is not a gender-based violence situation’
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Yoweri Museveni, 71, causes consternation as his remarks mix up Israel and Palestine
Women's rights and gender equality Solar Sister lights entrepreneurial spirit to improve women’s lives in Uganda