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Africa

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
  • 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

4 July 2024

  • Fishing boats, or pirogues, at Mauritanian port

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

  • 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?

3 July 2024

  • 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

    About 2.5 metres long, creature was an apex predator 280m years ago, before age of dinosaurs, say scientists
  • Mohamed Ould Ghazouani standing in a car waving to supporters.

    Three people die after arrests at election protests in Mauritania

    Two died in detention facility and one in hospital, officials say, after protests over Mohamed Ould Ghazouani’s win
  • 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’

    Model and actor Stella Tchuisse impersonates trailblazing women who have ‘changed narratives’ about the continent

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

  • Child malnutrition crisis in Nigeria amid rural violence and soaring food inflation

  • The tragic parable of Rishi Sunak: driven by success at all costs, then undone by his own myth-making

    Nesrine Malik

  • How a brother’s illness spurred a plan to get mental health on the agenda across Africa

30 June 2024

  • People carry an injured man from the back of a van

    At least 18 people killed in series of suicide attacks in Nigeria

    Authorities say 19 more were seriously injured in blasts at wedding, hospital and funeral in country’s north-east
  • Hope Hostel in Kigali, Rwanda

    More than £320m spent on Rwanda policy will be lost if Tories lose election

    Costs of trying to deport asylum seekers cannot be recovered if Labour wins and disbands policy
  • People form a line

    Sudan on precipice of famine ‘beyond imagination’, says outgoing UN aid chief

    Man-made crises in Gaza and Sudan leaving millions of people at risk, says retiring British diplomat Martin Griffiths
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