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Ethiopia Dam during construction in 2015. Photograph: Zacharias Abubeker/AFP/Getty Images

Ethiopia attacks Trump’s claim that Egypt will ‘blow up’ dam

October 24, 2020, 15:06

Egypt says it wants to settle dispute through diplomatic means but also would use ‘all available means’ to defend interests of people

Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu has welcomed the news Sudan is to normalise ties with Israel. Photograph: Alex Kolomiensky/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Sudan to normalise ties with Israel in move dubbed by Palestinians as ‘a stab in the back’

October 23, 2020, 19:48

Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu thanks Donald Trump for helping broker deal

Participants shake hands after signing an agreement for a permanent ceasefire in Libya, at a UN building in Geneva, Switzerland. Photograph: Violaine Martin/EPA

Libya’s main warring factions sign permanent ceasefire

October 23, 2020, 19:09

Agreement reached between two sides amid international and local scepticism

A patrol car of the Lagos state security drives through Nigerian protesters demonstrating in the streets of Alausa Ikeja after the authorities declared an open-ended lockdown in Lagos. Photograph: Benson Ibeabuchi/AFP via Getty

‘It was barbaric’: Nigeria reels from brutality of protest crackdown

Neil Munshi
October 23, 2020, 18:50

Demonstrators say assault seemed premeditated and allege army involvement

Protesters chant and sing solidarity songs as they barricade an expressway to protest against police brutality, at Magboro, Ogun state, Nigeria. Photograph: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

Nigerian president calls for end to street protests as violence escalates in Lagos

October 22, 2020, 21:14

Soldiers and police are accused of killing at least 12 protesters on Wednesday

A boy holds a banner during a protest against Nigerian rogue police, otherwise know as the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars), in Lagos, Nigeria. Photograph: Akintunde Akinleye/EPA

Nigeria accused of turning protest against police violence into ‘shooting spree’

Sally Hayden
October 21, 2020, 19:09

Call for army to withdraw from streets of Lagos and prosecution of officers

Ousted Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir in April 2012. He was accused of allowing militant groups to operate from his state. Photograph: Ebrahim Hamid/AFP via Getty Images

Sudan to be removed from US terror blacklist after paying $335m

Sally Hayden
October 20, 2020, 17:11

Trump welcomes ‘justice’ for victims of 1998 terrorist attacks on embassies by al-Qaeda

Residents at the village of Aldeia da Paz outside Macomia, Mozambique, after an attack by Islamist militants in 2019. Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images

EU agrees to help Mozambique tackle Islamist insurgency

Bill Corcoran
October 20, 2020, 16:20

Southern African nation had asked for support against uprising that has killed 2,000 people

A protester holds a placard at a demonstration against the Nigerian rogue police, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, in Ikeja in Lagos. Photograph: Akintunde Akinleye

Nigeria disbands brutal police unit but protests continue

Sally Hayden
October 13, 2020, 18:38

Footage of men dragged from Lagos hotel and one being shot fuels demonstrations

Boats seized from migrants gathered inside the port at Lampedusa, Italy in August. File photograph: Lorenzo Palizzolo/Getty Images

At least 8 women and 3 children die as migrant boat sinks off Tunisia

October 11, 2020, 21:28

Boat with about 30 people on board sank on route to Italian island of Lampedusa

Researchers also documented people with mental health problems, including children, being subjected to alternative ‘treatments’, including eating or drinking mixes of herbs. Photograph: Florent Vergnes/AFP

Mental health crisis across Africa as pandemic disrupts services

Sally Hayden
October 9, 2020, 18:12

Half of 30 countries globally with highest suicide rates are in Africa, says WHO

A woman holds her younger child while standing in a burned out area in the recently attacked village of Aldeia da Paz outside Macomia, Mozambique. Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP

EU faces delicate decision as Mozambique appeals for help with insurgency

Bill Corcoran
October 6, 2020, 18:44

African region’s colonial past makes military assistance potentially problematic

Women said they were plied with drinks, others ambushed in offices and hospitals. Photograph: iStock

Ebola aid workers from WHO and NGOs accused of sexual abuse in Congo

September 30, 2020, 07:19

Women say men forced them to have sex in exchange for work or terminated contracts when they refused

An inflatable boat off the Libyan coast. Over the past three years, tens of thousands of refugees and migrants have been caught trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea and detained without charge or trial. Photograph: Federico Scoppa/AFP/Getty

Refugees locked up for two years in Libya call for evacuation

Sally Hayden
September 27, 2020, 15:10

Migrants continue to endure arbitrary and indefinite detention in dire living conditions

Refugees and migrants waiting to be rescued in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya. Photograph: Getty Images

Refugees experience ‘catalogue of cruelty’ when intercepted and returned to Libya

Sally Hayden
September 24, 2020, 00:01

Amnesty says 8,500 men, women and children returned to Libya this year were locked up, ‘disappeared’ or sent to detention centres

A team in protective gear carry out the burial of a coronavirus victim in Gulu, northern Uganda. Photograph: Sally Hayden

‘We are not here for ceremony’: The indignity of a coronavirus burial

Sally Hayden
September 22, 2020, 18:34

Uganda Letter: In a country that dealt with Ebola 20 years ago, many healthcare workers risk going too far implementing controls during burials

One of the coffins discovered at an ancient burial shaft at a necropolis in Saqqara, south of Cairo, Egypt.. Photograph: Tourism and Antiquities Ministry/EPA

Dozens of coffins decorated with hieroglyphics found in Egyptian necropolis

September 21, 2020, 18:34

Sarcophagi have remained unopened since buried more than 2,500 years ago

Congolese refugee Riziki Kwabo, 36, says it’s been hard taking care of five young children who are all out of school. Now, they also risk eviction. Photograph: Sally Hayden

Evictions and hunger: life in Kampala as Covid cases surge

Sally Hayden
September 21, 2020, 17:42

They came to Uganda in search of a new life. Now, they’re facing eviction and destitution

File photograph shows the carcass of one of the many elephants which died mysteriously in the Okavango Delta in Botswana. Photograph: National Park Rescue/AFP via Getty Images

Deaths of hundreds of elephants may have been caused by toxic algae

September 21, 2020, 16:45

Animals who died from neurological disorder in Botswana may have drunk tainted water

A medical professional sanitises visiting patients in Springs, Johannesburg. Photograph: Yeshiel Panchia/EPA

Coronavirus: South Africa to ease restrictions as infections fall

Bill Corcoran
September 18, 2020, 13:26

Scientists seek answers to why country’s Covid-19 death rate remains relatively low

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