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Africa

21 June 2024

  • Namibia’s high court building

    Namibia high court overturns law banning gay sex

  • A boy with a colourful umbrella in front of some cattle

    ‘I fear when we stop, no one will replace us’: Madagascar’s forest guardians – in pictures

20 June 2024

  • Renaldo Gouws

    South Africa’s Democratic Alliance suspends MP for racist comments

  • Abiy Ahmed, with close-cropped hair and in a short-sleeved shirt and sunglasses, grinning at Khartoum airport with men around him and a plane labelled "Ethiopia" behind them

    The long read
    From Nobel peace prize to civil war: how Ethiopia’s leader beguiled the world

19 June 2024

  • A deadly explosion at a weapons depot in N'Djamena killed at least nine people and injured 40 as people living nearby were forced to flee

    1:12

    Explosion at weapons depot in Chad's capital causes multiple deaths – video

  • Soldiers lined up around blast area

    Multiple deaths reported after fire causes explosion in capital of Chad

  • Cyril Ramaphosa warned of ‘toxic cleavages’ during his inauguration ceremony as he was sworn in for a second term as South Africa's president

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    Ramaphosa warns of polarisation and inequality as he's sworn in as South Africa's president – video

  • Cyril Ramaphosa holds his hand up to his chest taking an oath

    South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa warns of ‘toxic cleavages’ at inauguration

  • ‘This goes beyond the church’: the Nigerian women in a sisterhood of millions

  • A Dry White Season review – Marlon Brando heads starry cast in ground-breaking apartheid drama

  • EU-funded Egyptian forces ‘rounding up and deporting Sudanese refugees’

18 June 2024

  • Migrants climb the fences separating the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco as police and border forces armed with truncheons stand on the other side

    Moroccan authorities pushed asylum seekers into ‘death trap’, NGO claims

    Border Forensics say dozens of deaths in 2022 at EU’s Melilla border was result of antagonistic security policy
  • A teenaged African girl poses for a photo clasping hands with a bald European man in a dark suit

    From Silicon Valley to Silicon Savannah: climate expert Patrick Verkooijen on why this is Africa’s century

    The University of Nairobi’s new chancellor says the continent has vast potential – but to realise the promise of AI and green jobs, rich countries must honour their commitments
  • SSUDAN-SUDAN-CONFLICT-REFUGEES<br>A Sudanese girl who have fled from the war in Sudan with her family carry a box with some of her belongings after arriving at a Transit Centre for refugees in Renk, on February 13, 2024.More than 550,000 people have now fled from the war in Sudan to South Sudan since the conflict exploded in April 2023, according to the United Nations. South Sudan, that has itself recently come out of decades of war, was facing a dire humanitarian situation before the war in Sudan erupted and it is feared to not have the resources to host displaced people. The war-torn country of Sudan is currently ravaged by internal fighting between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). (Photo by LUIS TATO / AFP) (Photo by LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images)

    First Edition newsletter
    Tuesday briefing: How millions are living through Sudan’s ‘harrowing’ humanitarian crisis

    In today’s newsletter: The war has devastated Sudan, destroying much of the country and leaving 18 million facing acute hunger

17 June 2024

  • K-Zungu at Sisso Records, Dar es Salaam

    ‘I am their voice now’: the Tanzanian rapper with a mission to spread pride in his own colour

    K-Zungu, an up and coming singeli artist with albinism, says he was lucky to have a protective family because so many with the condition in Africa have not been so fortunateWords and photographs by Diego Menjíbar Reynés in Dar es Salaam
  • A beach surrounded by trees

    Kenya’s first nuclear plant: why plans face fierce opposition in country’s coastal paradise

    Unease and anger are rising over proposals to build country’s first facility on Kilifi coast, home to white sand beaches, coral reefs and mangrove swamps
  • Children and women hold pots as volunteers distribute food in Omdurman, Sudan

    ‘We need the world to wake up’: Sudan facing world’s deadliest famine in 40 years

    Millions face disaster as Sudanese army and RSF accused of using food access as a weapon in on-going war

16 June 2024

  • An employee shuts the exit door of the Acropolis hill archaeological site as it temporarily closes due to a heatwave

    The Guardian view on the climate crisis and heatwaves: a killer we need to combat

    Editorial: Britain may be chilly, but from Greece to India, people are dying due to record temperatures. The death toll will grow without urgent action
  • Lola Pedro, a co-founder of Pedro’s premium ògógóró

    ‘A lingering taste of coconut and vanilla’: how Nigerians reclaimed ‘moonshine’ palm spirit

    On an eco resort near Lagos, distilled palm sap outlawed by colonial authorities is making a comeback
  • Fathers-trail-pic2

    Rights and freedom
    ‘Know how loved you were’: fathers write to their children from the frontline

    Four men share their love, dreams and fears for their children in Gaza, Ukraine, Afghanistan and Sudan
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