World
Africa
'Just one plane ride away': Slowing coronavirus is speeding the spread of other diseases
Diphtheria, cholera and polio are spreading around the world and Africa is facing a measles epidemic that could 'kill more children than COVID', doctors warn.
- by Jan Hoffman and Ruth Maclean
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Tragedy
UN expresses horror at mass graves in Libya
The graves were uncovered after fighters loyal to Khalifa Hifter, whose 14-month campaign to capture Tripoli, Libya, collapsed in recent weeks, retreated from Tarhuna, Libya, 64 kilometres south-east of the capital.
- by Declan Walsh
Boko Haram
Militants kill 20 soldiers, 40 civilians in Nigeria attacks
The attacks, in the Monguno and Nganzai local government areas, came just days after militants killed at least 69 people in a raid on a village in a third area, Gubio.
Animals
Hunters face life sentences after killing famous gorilla
Rafiki was the leader of 17 endangered mountain gorillas in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda.
- by Marcus Parekh
Extremism
Boko Haram razes village, kills dozens in northern Nigeria
Sources said gunmen attacked because they suspected residents of sharing information on the terror group's movements with security authorities.
World politics
Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza dies of heart attack, aged 56
There was speculation about whether the President had in fact died of COVID-19, after his wife earlier contracted the virus.
Extremism
France says its army killed al-Qaeda north Africa chief
Abdelmalek Droukdel was a key Islamist fighter that France had been hunting for more than seven years.
- by John Irish and Tangi Salaün
Coronavirus pandemic
Dozens of rhinos dehorned to prevent virus lockdown poaching surge
Rhino horn sells for $60,000 ($86,000) a kilogram, more than cocaine or gold.
- by Siyabonga Sishi and Tim Cocks
Illness
Congo declares new Ebola epidemic, 1000km from eastern outbreak
Democratic Republic of Congo declared a new Ebola epidemic on Monday in the western city of Mbandaka, more than 1000 kilometres away from an ongoing outbreak of the same deadly virus in the east.
- by Benoit Nyemba and Stanis Bujakera
Coronavirus pandemic
'Many of us are fearful': South Africa to reopen places of worship
The past few weeks of lockdown, one of the strictest in Africa, have been catastrophic for the country's poorest, many of whom live hand-to-mouth in crowded slums.
Libya
Hundreds of Russian, Syrian mercenaries quit Libya's front lines
Turkish military intervention has halted an attempt by Moscow-backed strongman Khalifa Haftar to capture Tripoli.
- by Samer Khalil Al-Atrush