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Sudan’s veteran opposition leader Sadiq al-Mahdi has called for an ‘objective’ international investigation into last week’s deadly crackdown on protesters, after the ruling military council rejected such an intervention. Photograph: Yasuyoshi China/AFP/Getty Images

Distrust between Sudanese parties makes direct talks impossible - US official

June 15, 2019, 11:42

Opposition claims more than 100 prostesters killed

Protesting students demand the removal of the ruling elite in Algiers. Photograph: Ramzi Boudina/Reuters

Algerian spring lives on as Sudan descends into violence

Heba Saleh
June 14, 2019, 17:42

Grassroots protest has avoided being taken over by Islamist groups

Police operate a checkpoint at the border crossing near Kasindi in eastern Congo on Wednesday. Photograph: Al-hadji Kudra Maliro/AP

Ugandan government asks citizens to report signs of Ebola

Sally Hayden
June 13, 2019, 20:18

Boy (5) and grandmother die after crossing into country from DRC

Most rape victims are from poor urban and rural settlements, cannot afford private healthcare and face stigma and discrimination when they seek treatment in public hospitals. Photograph: EPA/Dai Kurokawa

Kenya’s rape survivors win right to abortion in landmark court ruling

June 12, 2019, 20:47

Authorities ordered to pay mother of teenage victim who died after backstreet abortion

Health workers at an Ebola treatment centre in Beni, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters

Boy (5) dies of Ebola after outbreak crosses border to Uganda

June 12, 2019, 16:09

Two further cases confirmed in Uganda, showing disease has spread from DRC

Members of Sudan’s alliance of opposition and protest groups outside Sudan’s Central Bank, in Khartoum, Sudan. Photograph: Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters

Sudan internet blackout forces battered protesters into rethink

Tom Wilson
June 11, 2019, 17:52

Data shutdown follows brutal attack on sit-in demonstration that left more than 100 dead

An LGBT activist attends a court hearing in the Milimani high court in Nairobi, Kenya in February. Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images

Botswana high court decriminalises gay sex

Jason Burke
June 11, 2019, 12:37

Major victory for gay rights campaigners in Africa after setback in Kenya last month

About 100 people were killed during an overnight attack on an ethnic Dogon village in central Mali. Photograph: Google Maps

Mali attack leaves at least 95 people dead in Dogon village

June 10, 2019, 15:23

Fighting between Dogon hunters and Fulani herders has killed hundreds since January

A campaign to demand civilian rule left the streets of Sudan’s capital Khartoum largely deserted. Pictured above are closed stalls in the Omdurman market on Sunday. Photograph: Marwan Ali/EPA

Civil disobedience campaign empties streets of Sudan’s capital

June 9, 2019, 18:25

Police fire tear gas at protesters demanding civilian rule after president Omar al-Bashir ousting

Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed, arrives to mediate in the political crisis that has followed after the overthrow of Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, at the airport in Khartoum, Sudan on Friday. Photograph: Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters

Ethiopian PM tries to mediate Sudan’s political crisis after bloodshed

June 7, 2019, 19:31

President Omar al-Bashir ousting prompts standoff between military rulers and civilians

Members of Sudan’s security forces patrol in Khartoum on Thursday. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

African Union suspends Sudan after crackdown on protesters

Jason Burke
June 6, 2019, 16:30

Suspension until civilian government formed in response to killing of dozens this week

Protesters block a sidestreet in Khartoum on Tuesday to stop military vehicles from driving through. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Sudan’s military leader offers to reopen talks with protesters

David Pilling
June 5, 2019, 19:05

At least 100 killed by paramilitaries this week, say opposition, with bodies dumped in Nile

Members of the Economic Freedom Fighters with their leader Julius Malema. Photograph: Rodger Bosch/AFP/Getty

South African voters pulled to the extremes as race rears its ugly head

Bill Corcoran
June 5, 2019, 01:00

Cape Town Letter: Disillusionment with corruption-tainted ANC spurs voter flight

A protester flashes the victory sign in front of burning tires and debris near the army headquarters in Khartoum, Sudan, on Monday. Photograph: AP

Sudan’s military stokes fears of power grab with early vote

Tom Wilson
June 4, 2019, 19:45

Shortened timescale leaves little chance to rebuild political structures and civil society

Health workers dressed in Ebola protective suits place a coffin containing the body of an Ebola patient to a truck at an Ebola treatment centre in the DRC. Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters

Almost 2,000 infected with Ebola in DRC as spread of disease accelerates

Jason Burke
June 4, 2019, 12:59

New cases reported at a rate of about 10 every day while some 1,346 people have died

A Sudanese protester reacts as the military forces try to disperse the sit-in outside Khartoum’s army headquarters on Monday. Photograph: Getty Images

More than 30 dead as Sudan forces disperse protesters

June 3, 2019, 20:27

Demonstrators seek quick transition to civilian rule after ousting of al-Bashir

In a court hearing Abdessamad Ejjoud and Youness Ouziyad admitted to attacking and decapitating the two women, who were staying overnight in a tent in the Atlas mountains. Photograph: Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images

Three men admit to the murder of two Scandinavian hikers in Morocco

May 31, 2019, 14:07

Video of killings shared with other Islamic State sympathisers, suspect says

A woman shades her head from the heat of the sun during food distribution in Mogadishu’s Shingani district in Somalia. Photograph: Abdirazak Hussein Farah/AFP/Getty Images

Millions of Somalis could be put at risk of starvation due to drought

Sally Hayden
May 30, 2019, 18:31

UN issues warning as climate-change-related drought hits Somalia ‘out of the blue’

President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa (left) with David Mabuza in Pretoria who he reappointed as deputy president. Photograph: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters

Ramaphosa cuts cabinet size amid pressure on corruption

Bill Corcoran
May 30, 2019, 17:57

Equal number of men and women named as ministers for first time in South Africa

Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari waves at the crowd while he drives around the venue during his inauguration for a second term in Abuja. Photograph: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters

Nigeria’s president sworn in amid criticism of his first term

Sally Hayden
May 29, 2019, 19:13

Muhammadu Buhari faces an array of challenges, including Boko Haram unrest

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