Africa
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Health experts in Uganda are divided about how far the president has made good on the promises he made at the London family planning summit four years ago
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Zimbabwean president threatens crackdown on previously supportive veterans’ group after it labels him dictatorial and egocentric
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President calls ritual of having sex with girls once they reach puberty ‘shocking malpractice’ and orders arrest of self-proclaimed sex worker
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Sixteen children were among the victims trapped inside the building as fire ripped through a thatched roof, police say
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Congolese rumba star had already been deported from Kenya following outcry over video footage of him assaulting a dancer
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Mossack Fonseca files name hundreds of mining firms, raising concerns about use of tax havens to exploit the continent
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Lack of investment and regulation means life is hard for the men, women and children panning for tiny fragments of gold along Madagascar’s river beds
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It is two years since the last case of wild polio in Nigeria. Ensuring every child is vaccinated should free the entire continent of the disease inside a year
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Rich men in South Africa who bribe schoolgirls for sex with phones and cheap shoes are a main driver of the highest HIV rates in the world
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Louise Linton’s cliche-ridden memoir of her gap year in Africa was met with scorn and anger earlier this month. We asked three writers why travel writing about the continent needs to change – and how
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Zimbabwe’s president is abandoned by previously stalwart supporters who blame economic crisis on ‘bankrupt leadership’
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