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Africa

6 August 2024

  • Phoday Jarjussey

    Other lives
    Phoday Jarjussey obituary

  • Khalifa Haftar in a military uniform

    Oilfield slowdown exposes political volatility in Libya and beyond

  • Protesters on a wide street

    No jobs, no trust: young Africans’ economic struggles fuel protests

  • A woman walks near the Palace of Justice in Tunis, Tunisia May 13, 2024

    Tunisia court jails potential presidential candidates and bars them from upcoming election

4 August 2024

  • A woman holds out five coloured pills in her upturned palms

    Fifth of medicines in Africa may be sub-par or fake, research finds

    Analysis suggests extent of problem UN estimates is causing 500,000 deaths a year in sub-Saharan region

3 August 2024

  • Police fire teargas during a protest in Abuja

    Bullets and teargas reportedly fired at journalists covering protests in Nigeria

    At least 50 press arrested on Saturday in Abuja and almost 700 demonstrators detained since unrest began
  • Five men carry a body in a red plastic sheet across the sand with a restaurant in the background

    At least 37 killed in terrorist attack on popular Mogadishu beach

    More than 200 wounded after suicide bomber and gunmen target busy beachfront in Somali capital
  • Lagos protesters against cost of living crisis.

    Why are Nigerians protesting? Young people were roused by events in Kenya

    A demonstration against the president about the cost of living crisis has spread, after youth groups saw protests across the continent force a change in the law

2 August 2024

  • A female African soloist sings in front of a symphony orchestra in a concert hall

    African classical music hits world stage as the Africa United Youth Orchestra plays Carnegie Hall

    The ensemble, made up of musicians from across Africa, will perform in public for only the second time as part of world orchestra week at the legendary New York venue
  • Zongo Lane in Accra, Ghana

    The Guardian picture essay
    Carmignac photojournalism award: Ghana and e-waste

    Photojournalists and an investigative writer documented the flow of electronic waste between Europe and Ghana

    • Pain, organ damage, infertility: the neglected disease that leaves millions of women in agony

    • Egyptian mummy with screaming expression ‘may have died in agony’, say researchers

    • The Audio Long Read
      From Nobel peace prize to civil war: how Ethiopia’s leader beguiled the world – podcast

1 August 2024

  • A woman in a white dress

    Miss South Africa contestant faces backlash over Nigerian father

    Chidimma Adetshina subjected to online abuse and questions about whether she is South African amid anti-African immigrant sentiment
  • Women and babies at the Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur.

    Children ‘at death’s door’ as famine declared in Sudanese refugee camp

    UN-backed early warning network confirms people in the Darfur city of El Fasher are starving to death
  • Two Nigerians protesters gold up a sign saying 'hungry'

    Up to seven reportedly dead in Nigeria after clashes between police and citizens

    Anti-government protests held in Abuja, Minna, Katsina and Lagos despite official efforts to stifle it

31 July 2024

  • Moussa Dadis Camara

    Guinea court finds former dictator guilty in stadium massacre trial

  • Sudanese army blames the Rapid Support Forces but no one has claimed responsibility

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    Sudan's military leader survived drone strike, says army – video report

  • An older African woman with cropped grey hair wearing a turquoise blouse with an intricately embroidered collar

    Nigerian singer, actor and activist Onyeka Onwenu dies aged 72

  • A family – two adults and five young children – stand by a tree with a shack behind them

    From Scotland to Malawi: climate survivors are rebuilding with world first loss and damage fund

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