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Africa

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

  • 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

29 June 2024

  • People seen from behind, carrying possessions on their back.

    ‘Nowhere to go’: people trapped in eastern DRC as rebel militia seize key town

  • Biyi Bándélé

    Book of the day
    Yorùbá Boy Running by Biyi Bándélé review – a historic hero

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