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Africa

13 July 2024

  • Dozens of people gather near a collapsed two-storey building

    Twenty-two students dead after school in Nigeria collapses during classes

    More than 154 people were initially reported trapped under the rubble but police say 132 have been rescued and treated for injuries

12 July 2024

  • A man in a white coat passes a probe over a woman's abdomen and looks at a screen.

    ‘I am happy to see how my baby is bouncing’: the AI transforming pregnancy scans in Africa

    While ultrasound services are normal practice in many countries, software being tested in Uganda will allow a scan without the need for specialists, providing an incentive for pregnant women to visit health services early on

11 July 2024

  • Protesters in Nairobi call for William Ruto to quit at a rally on 2 July

    Kenyan president sacks cabinet after weeks of deadly protests

    Only foreign minister spared as William Ruto tries to quell violence triggered by planned tax rises
  • Rwanda's president Paul Kagame waves at crowds

    ‘There will be no surprises’: Kagame set to sweep to fourth term as Rwandan president

    Kagame’s opponents are unlikely to mount any serious challenge in next week’s election, say analysts

    • Lion brothers make record-breaking 1.5km swim in hope of finding mates - video

    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      ‘Everyone was paddling to get away’: seals with rabies alarm South Africa’s surfers

    • Millions of lives upended as Sudan’s civil war leads to displacement crisis

10 July 2024

  • Jacob the lion as captured by Alexander Braczkowski who is a Griffith Uni student working on ways to monitor Agrican lion numbers.

    ‘Africa’s most resilient lion’ and his brother filmed making 1.5km swim across dangerous African river

  • The Ocean Viking ship

    Armed men jump onboard small boat during rescue near Libya

  • Rishi Sunak's head peeks above a sign that reads 'stop the boats'

    Syrian asylum seeker in UK says he ‘lost everything’ after Rwanda roundup

  • Protesters in Kenya hold signs reading COLONIALISM NEVER REALLY ENDED and KENYA AND HAITI ARE NOT FOR SALE.

    Why are the US and IMF imposing draconian austerity measures on Kenya?

    Fadhel Kaboub

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

  • Torture, starvation, rape: Moi’s Kenya and the dark legacy of Nyayo House

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
  • 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

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