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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

  • Supporters of Mauritanian president, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, attend the final campaign rally in Nouakchott.

    Voters in Mauritania’s fledgling democracy head to the polls

  • Protesters stand on a street holding a sign that says ‘Rex Masai avenue’. Some are also holding Kenyan flags and one person stands with their fist raised in the air

    Kenya’s youth-driven protest movement at crossroads as it considers future

28 June 2024

  • Beneath the Baobabs, a festival in Kilifi, Kenya, over new year's 2023-2024. Photograph: Drew Kamau

    The Audio Long Read
    Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educated elite – podcast

    Every year, hundreds of Kenyans head off to study at elite universities in the US and UK. On graduating, many find themselves in a strange position: unable to fit in abroad, but no longer feeling like they belong back home. By Carey Baraka

27 June 2024

  • Ancient illustrations of Egyptian people and a jackal-headed god, with Egyptian language above

    Egyptian scribes suffered work-related injuries, study says

  • Protesters continued to gather across Kenya despite the president announcing that the finance bill will be withdrawn

    1:32

    Police fire teargas as protests continue across Kenya despite withdrawal of tax hikes – video

  • Portrait of a man sitting in a car

    Londoner continues epic trans-Africa run after release from South Sudan jail

  • Dried-out ground on the edge of the Gaddara Dam, where water levels have dropped

    ‘Whack-a-mole situation’: Algerian officials wrestle with water shortage anger

26 June 2024

  • Two children suffering from malnutrition sit on an emaciated donkey next to a line of people

    Sudan’s warring factions using starvation as weapon, experts say

  • William Ruto, Kenya’s president, acknowledged that Kenyans wanted ‘nothing to do with this finance bill'.

    1:12

    Kenyan president withdraws finance bill after violent protests leave 23 dead – video

  • Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud sits in the courtroom at The Hague.

    ICC convicts Timbuktu jihadist police chief of war crimes

  • William Ruto makes a speech while standing at a lecturn

    Kenyan president scraps bill to raise taxes after violent protests leave 23 dead

  • Police clash with anti-tax protesters in Kenya – in pictures

  • Goma games: how chess offers DRC’s displaced children respite from conflict – in pictures

  • Warnings over lethal and contagious strain of mpox as children in DRC die

25 June 2024

  • Kenyan president says protests were 'hijacked by dangerous people' – video

    William Ruto addresses Kenya following a day of deadly protests in the country
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