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Africa

9 July 2024

  • Elephants including a calf roaming through the African bush

    Spanish tourist trampled to death by elephants in South Africa

  • a still from Bushman, with Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam as Gabriel and Elaine Featherstone as Alma.

    Bushman review – amazing real-time evocation of a Nigerian’s life in 70s America

8 July 2024

  • Col Assimi Goïita, Gen Abdourahamane Tiani, and Capt Ibrahim Traoré (R) salute as they stand to attention at the summit. All are wearing military uniform

    Ecowas warns of ‘disintegration’ as juntas split from west African bloc

    Breakaway union by military rulers of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger exposes growing fissures within the region
  • Man in green and blue T.shirt beside two other men, one in army camouflage jacket, outside building

    Kenyan cult leader goes on trial on terrorism charges over 400 deaths

    Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie alleged to have incited acolytes to starve to death to ‘meet Jesus’
  • Two elephants with tusks walk in a dusty landscape at sunset

    The age of extinction
    Trophy hunter killings spark fierce battle over the future of super tusker elephants

    The lifting of a long-held ban has angered conservationists, but others argue trophy hunting can support local economies and even help protect threatened species

5 July 2024

  • Screenshot of women celebrating

    Opinion
    Sierra Leone has banned child marriage – to truly set women free it must end FGM

    Josephine Kamara
    Marrying young girls may now be illegal, but lawmakers seem reluctant to put a stop to genital cutting, and the two go hand in hand
  • Women and children sit among washing drying on the line at a camp for displaced people in Burkina Faso

    ‘They live with fear in their stomachs’: increasing violence deepens crisis in Burkina Faso

    About 10% of the population is displaced and 40 of the west African country’s cities are cut off from aid – but agencies say they have only 17% of the funding needed to help
  • Fishing boats, or pirogues, at Mauritanian port

    At least 89 migrants dead after boat capsizes off Mauritania, state news agency says

    Dangerous Atlantic ocean route is gaining popularity because of increased vigilance by authorities in the Mediterranean

4 July 2024

  • Men in dark suts gather around Angelina Jolie, who is wearing a dark dress and speaking from behind a metal lectern.

    Ten years after a celebrity summit promised to end rape as a weapon of war, is there any change for the women of South Sudan?

    Guardian investigation reveals conflict-riven country received little funding or support and that high-profile perpetrators remain in public office

3 July 2024

  • Karamba Diaby at podium saying Deutscher Bundestag

    Germany’s first African-born MP to stand down after racist abuse

  • Image of the nearly complete skeleton from fossils recovered in Namibia of a giant salamander-like creature

    Fangs and toilet seat-shaped head: giant salamander-like fossil found in Namibia

  • Mohamed Ould Ghazouani standing in a car waving to supporters.

    Three people die after arrests at election protests in Mauritania

  • Actor and model Stella Chuisse impersonates Angélique Kidjo, a singer, songwriter and composer from Benin

    Women behind the lens
    Women behind the lens: ‘I Want to Be Like Her is my way of paying tribute to 10 exceptional Africans’

2 July 2024

  • A brass sign reading Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office shows a reflection of a brick building.

    From conflict to the climate – what are the UK parties’ international plans?

    As the election nears, we scrutinise how each of the main contenders would deal with problems around the world
  • Affected by tragedy … The Mother of All Lies.

    The Mother of All Lies review – pursuing the truth of Morocco’s brutal dictatorship years

    Asmae El Moudir employs a delicate mix of handmade replicas and oral testimony to brilliantly evoke personal and collective trauma
  • Manizha Talash, Ray Bassil and Alexandra Ndolo

    In a class of their own: three Olympic sportswomen talk about overcoming war, hardship and the Taliban

    In advance of the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, we speak to women who have faced conflict, discrimination and a lack of funding to stand as their countries’ only female qualifiers in their chosen fields

1 July 2024

  • Commemoration held for people who lost their lives in the clashes that broke out across the country after the police opened fire on anti-tax protesters.

    At least 39 killed in Kenya’s anti-tax protests, says rights watchdog

  • Nanjala Nyabola

    The world is scrambling to understand Kenya’s historic protests – this is what too many are missing

    Nanjala Nyabola
  • Portrait of a boy holding a black staff

    Milk and sacrifice: a rare glimpse into a Maasai rite of passage

  • A group of black women praying with hands on their heads

    The Guardian picture essay
    Rat soup, snails and oracles: why Nigeria’s traditional midwives still have a vital role to play

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