Africa
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UN demands Ethiopia admit observers amid reports dozens killed in protestsUN high commissioner for human rights says reports from two regions were ‘extremely alarming’ with allegations of abuses by security forces
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Refugee judoka Popole Misenga out of Olympics but thrilled all the samePopole Misenga made it into the last 16 in the men’s 90kg division, where he was beaten by the current world number one
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Libyan forces say they have captured Isis base in SirteSpokesman says troops have control of convention centre previously used as base by jihadi group
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Gateways: cratedigging the cream of Nigerian music – podcastRenowned producer Odion Iruoje and record collector Temitope Kogbe pick out gems and swap stories about decades of music from West Africa’s cultural capital
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Davido's Nigerian playlist – Wizkid, Fela Kuti, D'Banj and moreIn the latest part of our series Gateways featuring Tony Allen and in collaboration with Boiler Room, Afrobeats star Davido picks his favourite records from his homeland, Nigeria
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Dozens shot dead in anti-government protests across Ethiopia says oppositionDeaths in at least ten separate towns amid growing unrest over government policies
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Victims of torture are being ignored as the Libyan renditions case is buriedThe CPS has fobbed off my office and my clients – including a pregnant woman and a child kidnapped by British intelligence
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Africa's farmers fret over Brexit amid calls to boost regional tradeUN trade conference in Nairobi says boosting intra-African trade would help protect continent from economic shocks
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Unlocking the mystery of Gabon's cuckoo migration – in picturesEarlier this year photojournalist Toby Smith followed a group of migrating cuckoos to the forests of Gabon, west Africa. His images document the African landscapes in which the globally dwindling cuckoo population spends its winter months away from the UK, and will help conservationists understand how land use change is affecting birds
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South Africa's golden rhino to star in British Museum exhibitionFigures and objects from Mapungubwe, site of the first kingdom in southern Africa, are part of an exploration of 100,000 years of art
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Oscar Pistorius treated in hospital with wrist injuriesSouth African athlete jailed for murder of girlfriend denies trying to kill himself, according to authorities, while brother rejects ‘untrue and sensational’ reports
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Escaping the sex trade: the stories of Nigerian women lured to Italy - in picturesSpanish photographer Quintina Valero’s striking visual record of the work being done by an NGO to help victims of sex trafficking in Asti, near Turin
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Trafficked to Turin: the Nigerian women forced to work as prostitutes in ItalyThousands of women are lured from Nigeria to Italy each year on the promise of a prosperous new life, only to find themselves trapped in the sex trade
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Britain is hastening the extinction of the African elephantIn 20 years, African elephants will be extinct if the UK doesn’t join the US and China in clamping down on the domestic ivory market
(Iron) Maiden flight: Bruce Dickinson lands first passenger jet in Djibouti