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A staff member of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission carries a box of ballot papers in Port Harcourt on Friday. Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba//AFP/Getty Images

Nigeria prepares to go to polls again after last-minute delay

Ruth Maclean
February 22, 2019, 18:57

Unspecified ‘challenges’ led to postponement of vote last week five hours before polling time

A cyclist drives pasts a campaign poster in Kano for Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari, on February 17th. Photograph: Luc Gnago/Reuters

Nigerians weigh up cost of returning to polls after election delay

Abraham Achirga and Paul Carsten
February 22, 2019, 15:04

Petrol price cut to encourage voters to travel after last-minute postponement a week ago

The government says there is growing conflict between humans and wildlife. Photograph: iStock

Botswana considers allowing big game hunting and elephant culling

February 22, 2019, 11:31

Southern African country is home to almost a third of the continent’s elephants

Relatives of the men executed for the killing of public prosecuter Hisham Barakat gather at Zynhom morgue in Cairo, Egypt, on Wednesday to wait for their bodies to be released. Photograph: Amina Ismail/Reuters

Egypt executes nine over public prosecutor’s killing

February 20, 2019, 20:11

Men were among a group of 28 sentenced to death for car bomb killing in 2017

Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa. He confirmed he had issued the order for the army to tackle the protesters. Photograph: Aaron Ufumeli/EPA

Threats to doctors and lawyers who aided protesters in Zimbabwe condemned

Bill Corcoran
February 18, 2019, 21:10

Zimbabwe’s president says search has begun for lawyers, doctors and nurses who assisted civilians during protests over the economy

Muhammadu Buhari, who is seeking a second term as president of Nigeria. Photograph: Luc Gnago/Reuters

Presidential election delay throws Nigeria into disarray

Neil Munshi
February 17, 2019, 17:51

Logistical and operational concerns necessitated delay, electoral commission says

Independent National Electoral Commission workers unload ballot boxes in southern Nigeria on Saturday after Nigeria’s electoral watchdog postponed presidential and parliamentary elections just hours before polls were due to open. Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

Nigeria delays presidential election for a week amid ‘challenges’

February 16, 2019, 07:58

Announcement came five hours before polls were set to open on Saturday

Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari in his hometown Daura, in Katsina State, on Friday ahead of the country’s presidential election. Photograph: Luc Gnago/Reuters

Nigeria bolsters security on eve of presidential election

February 15, 2019, 19:58

Past votes in Africa’s largest democracy marred by violence, intimidation and rigging

Miners gather around one of the mine shafts where gold miners are feared dead. Photograph: AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi

Zimbabwe: Dozens of miners missing underground after flooding

February 14, 2019, 20:07

Rescue teams draining water after rain destroyed a dam wall, trapping gold miners

An African black leopard is seen in Lorok, Kenya Photograph: San Diego Zoo Global/Reuters

Rare African black leopard photographed for first time in nearly a century

February 13, 2019, 21:35

Will Burrard-Lucas set up motion-sensitive cameras in Kenya to capture images

A street vendor is pictured next to a campaign poster of Atiku Abubakar, leader of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos, February 12t. Photograph: Reuters/Luc Gnago

Nigeria’s election brings dual crises back to polls: corruption and Boko Haram

February 13, 2019, 18:33

Buhari is in last throes of bruising re-election campaign

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa addresses a conference at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Photograph: Siyabulela Duda/EPA

South African corruption allegations threaten a historic upset

Bill Corcoran
February 11, 2019, 01:10

Ruling ANC vows to act amid fears a growing scandal could end its 25-year dominance

Sierra Leone’s president Julius Maada Bio addresses the audience during an event in which he declared national emergency on rape and sexual violence on Thursday. Photograph: Coopers Inveen/Reuters

Sierra Leone’s president declares rape a national emergency

February 8, 2019, 12:37

Reported cases of sexual and gender-based violence nearly doubled last year to over 8,500

Former Bosasa executives Angelo Agrizzi (left) and Frans Vorster arrive at the special commercial crimes court in Pretoria, South Africa, on Wednesday. Photograph: Shafiek Tassiem/Reuters

South Africa whistleblower Angelo Agrizzi charged with corruption

Bill Corcoran
February 6, 2019, 18:15

Former Bosasa executive one of four people arrested over fraud in prison services sector

Newly-discovered mummies wrapped in linen which were found in burial chambers dating to the Ptolemaic era. Photograph: AFP

Egypt unveils ancient burial site containing 50 mummies

February 3, 2019, 13:12

Mummies were discovered inside burial chambers in the Tuna El-Gebel site

A satellite image of the town of Rann in northeast Nigeria showing the structures burned down by Boko Haram in a recent attack Photograph: Amnesty Internation Nigeria/Twitter

Boko Haram kill at least 60 in attack on Nigerian town

February 1, 2019, 17:16

Group drove soldiers from town of Rann in country’s northeast two weeks ago

Democratic Republic of Congo president Felix Tshisekedi receives the presidential sash from outgoing president Joseph Kabila after being sworn in in Kinshasa on January 24th. Photograph: Jerome Delay/AP

World looks away as DRC celebrates dubious democratic transition

Tom Wilson and David Pilling
January 30, 2019, 14:45

Kabila out of office after election defeat but suspicions linger of backroom deal to keep him in power

Angelo Agrizzi, Former COO of Bosasa, testifies at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture in Johannesburg. Photograph: Wikus de Wet/AFP/Getty Images

Former Bosasa executive says company paid cash bribes to Jacob Zuma

Bill Corcoran
January 28, 2019, 18:54

CEO of firm accused of corruption allegedly hand-delivered bribe to former SA president

People run at a protest as barricades burn during rainfall in Harare on January 14th. Photograph: Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo/

Zimbabwe crackdown to continue ‘for foreseeable future’, activists fear

Jason Burke
January 28, 2019, 17:37

Opposition in hiding after arbitrary arrests, beatings and rapes by police and military

A member of security gestures to the photographer as former Bosasa chief operations officer, Angelo Agrizzi arrives at the Judicial Commission of Inquiry, probing state capture in Johannesburg, South Africa on January 21st Photograph: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters

SA corruption whistleblower: Boss could tell former president Zuma ‘what to do’

Bill Corcoran
January 27, 2019, 16:27

Angelo Agrizzi is set to continue his testimony at a public inquiry into political corruption

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