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Recently returned people sit in a camp for the displaced in Gwoza, Borno State, northeast Nigeria. Photograph: Sally Hayden Inside the headquarters of Boko Haram’s former caliphate
  • Sally Hayden
  • July 12, 2017, 01:00

Former captives describe brutal executions and militants celebrating suicide bombings

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, the presidential candidate of the National Super Alliance (Nasa) coalition, at a  campaign rally  in Nairobi, Kenya .  Photograph: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters Kenya’s opposition candidate makes gains on incumbent president
  • Bill Corcoran
  • July 11, 2017, 01:00

Realignment of political forces and fears of tribal violence ahead of August 8th election

Members of Libyan National Army gather after the liberation of Islamist militants’ last stronghold in Benghazi, Libya, last week. Photograph: Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters Heavy clashes break out east of Libya's capital
  • July 9, 2017, 20:56

Local authorities advising Tripoli residents to evacuate and stay away from the area

German chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes Senegalese president Macky Sall to the G20 summit in Hamburg. Photograph: Clemens Bilan/EPA Aid experts wary of G20’s ‘Marshall plan’ for Africa
  • Derek Scally
  • July 8, 2017, 01:00

Germany bills deal ‘trade not aid’, but analysts predict private sector exploitation

South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma; Winnie Mandela, wife of the late president Nelson Mandela; and the country’s deputy president, Cyril Ramaphosa, at the ANC’s national policy conference in   Johannesburg. Photograph: Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Images Zuma calls on African National Congress to end internal ‘war’
  • Bill Corcoran
  • July 5, 2017, 18:06

South Africa’s ruling party beset by factionalism, corruption and dwindling support

Mali’s president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita talks with French president Emmanuel Macron in Bamako, Mali. Photograph: Luc Gnago/Reuters Macron and west African presidents launch Sahel force
  • July 2, 2017, 21:02

France will ‘remain engaged for as long as it takes’ against Islamist threat, Macron says

A woman cradles her daughter at an MSF clinic for malnourished children in Gwange, Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria. Photograph: Sally Hayden A week of bombings in the birthplace of Boko Haram
  • Sally Hayden
  • June 30, 2017, 01:00

Conflict sponsored by Islamist group changes from military assaults to guerrilla tactics

South Africa’s deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa, a front-runner in the race to succeed Jacob Zuma in December as ANC leader. Photograph: Siyabulela Duda/EPA ANC in crisis as crucial election to replace Zuma approaches
  • Bill Corcoran
  • June 29, 2017, 22:49

Party’s deputy head and president’s former wife front-runners in internal election

A volunteer brings daily food rations for internally displaced persons at a camp for people fleeing the conflict in the Kasai region. Photograph: John Wessels/AFP/Getty Images Almost 3,400 killed since Congo conflict began – report
  • John Aglionby
  • June 20, 2017, 20:03

Catholic Church accuses security forces, local militias of destroying 20 Kasai villages

Soldiers of Malian security forces walk around the Kangaba tourist resort following an attack on Sunday. Photograph: Reuters In Mali, it is ‘difficult to separate myth from reality’, says Defence Forces member
  • Sarah Burns
  • June 20, 2017, 07:22

Lieut Col Bernard Markey recalls ‘growing violence’ after return from six-month tour

 Mali’s security ministry said gunmen were attacking the Le Campement resort in Dougourakoro east of the capital Bamako.  Image: Google Maps ‘Two killed’ after gunmen attack tourist resort in Mali
  • June 18, 2017, 21:56

Security rescue 32 guests as suspected jihadists raid facility east of capital Bamako

Emmanuel Rutema, a Tanzanian boy with albinism who had his arm chopped off in a superstition-driven attack, tries on a new prosthetic arm at the Shriners Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters Albino children attacked for body parts get new limbs in America
  • Ellen Wulfhorst
  • June 14, 2017, 06:00

In Tanzania, the body parts of people with albinism are used in witchcraft

Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration  in the Rif region in Rabat, Morocco on Sunday. Photograph: Reuters Morocco protests intensify despite government clampdown
  • Guy Hedgecoe
  • June 12, 2017, 16:04

Rif region demands social investment and release of demonstrators

Saif al-Islam Gadafy, son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gadafy, attends a hearing behind bars in a courtroom in Zintan in 2014. Photograph: Reuters Gadafy’s son ‘freed’ in Libya after being held for six years
  • June 11, 2017, 15:12

Whereabouts of man who was sentenced to death for war crimes in 2015 unknown

Western Cape premier Helen Zille, who will face disciplinary proceedings by her political party, Democratic Alliance, on Friday over tweets she made about colonialism. Photograph: Schalk van Zuydam/AP Anger over Helen Zille’s ‘colonialism’ tweets
  • Bill Corcoran
  • June 8, 2017, 18:26

Western Cape premier accused of ‘racism’ and faces disciplinary proceedings

The killings of two bald men in Mozambique have prompted police to warn of the danger of ritual attacks. Photograph: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters Mozambique police warn that bald people could be targets of ritual killings
  • June 8, 2017, 13:49

Two men killed and body parts thought to have been used in witchcraft

A cargo train leaves the container terminal for its inaugural journey to Nairobi, at the port of the coastal town of Mombasa. Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images Kenya inaugurates Chinese-built railway linking port to capital
  • May 31, 2017, 17:30

‘Anybody who cannot see what China has done for Kenya must be blind. China is the way to go.’

South African president  Jacob Zuma during the ANC’s National Executive Committee meeting in Pretoria on Saturday. Photograph:  Phill Magakoe/AFP/Getty Images Zuma survives ANC attempt to oust him as head of state
  • Joseph Cotterill
  • May 29, 2017, 12:40

South African president’s allies fight off challenge as party split deepens

A traditional dance act performs at the Kakuma’s Got Talent audition in Kakuma refugee camp, northern Kenya. Photograph: Ruairi Casey Young refugees of Kakuma turn to music to forget their troubles
  • Ruairi Casey
  • May 22, 2017, 01:00

Life for young people stuck in a camp in Kenya inspires little but despondency

Leader of the Libyan National Army General Khalifa Haftar. A spokesman for the LNA said 103 of those killed in the attack at the air base were LNA troops. Photograph: Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters Death toll at Libya air base rises to ‘more than 140’
  • May 20, 2017, 11:39

Government suspends defence minister pending investigation into Thursday’s attack

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