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18 June 2024

  • 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

  • Lola Pedro, a co-founder of Pedro’s premium ògógóró

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

  • A picture of a young girl being held by a woman and a man, who are both kissing her

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

  • Photograph of a woman in silhouette against the window of a shack in South Africa

    ‘In South Africa, you hear of disappearance all the time’: one photographer’s search for his sister’s missing years

15 June 2024

  • M Dores Cruz, center, and her team carry out an archaeological dig on Sao Tome in 2023.

    Our unequal earth
    White gold, Black bodies: how a tiny African nation shaped the world

    The first archaeological dig of São Tomé and Príncipe’s largest sugar mill sheds light on the birth of plantation agriculture and slavery as a racial system
  • Children on a cart cross the border between Sudan and Chad.

    Children trapped in war zones because of UK refusal to ease refugee visa rules

    ‘Abject failure’ of family reunion scheme to provide legal route is leaving children at risk of trafficking or even death

  • 'Privilege and pleasure': Cyril Ramaphosa re-elected as South Africa's president – video

    The ANC lost its majority in parliament for the first time since the end of apartheid in 1994 and was forced to strike a deal with the rival Democatic Alliance party to form a government

14 June 2024

  • Cyril Ramaphosa standing behind a lectern

    Cyril Ramaphosa re-elected as South Africa’s president

  • John Steenhuisen

    South Africa’s ANC strikes coalition deal with free-market DA

  • Country’s second-largest party reportedly agrees to support re-election of Cyril Ramaphosa as president

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    South Africa's DA reaches agreement on unity government, leader says – video

  • Mansour Seck performing at the Barbican Centre in London, May 2023.

    Mansour Seck obituary

  • How two Utah school friends ended up facing death penalty in Congo

  • Bloodlines
    A cycle of debt, sex work and cocaine: the women in west Africa caught in Europe’s drugs trail

13 June 2024

  • Two children walk along a dusty path carrying water containers

    Conflicts drive number of forcibly displaced people to record high

    Sharp rise, equivalent to population of London, means nearly 120 million have been driven from their homes

12 June 2024

  • African protesters waving placards with slogans such as "#stop eacop" and "divest from fossil fuels"

    Ugandan oil pipeline protester allegedly beaten as part of ‘alarming crackdown’

  • Beautifully detailed … l to r, Ilça Moreno Zego and Louise Mauroy-Panzani in Ama Gloria.

    Àma Gloria review – amazing performances in sensitive drama about a kid and her nanny

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