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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni (centre) gestures while standing on a car during the inauguration ceremony for his sixth term at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds in Kampala, Uganda on May 12th. Photograph: Badru Katumba/AFP via Getty

3:18 Ugandan president sworn in for sixth term in office

Sally Hayden
May 12, 2021, 19:05

Yoweri Museveni says ruling party ‘designed the most elaborate democratic structure’

A court in Cameroon sentenced two transgender women on Tuesday to five years in prison for “attempted homosexuality” and other offences. Photograph: Shakiro/Instagram

Cameroon convicts two transgender women of ‘attempted homosexuality’

May 12, 2021, 13:24

Human Rights Watch says arrests seem to be part of ‘ an overall uptick in police action” against sexual minorities’

Dominic Ongwen: sentenced to 25 years in jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Photograph: Peter Dejong/ANP/AFP via Getty Images

Former Lord’s Resistance Army commander sentenced to 25 years by ICC

Sally Hayden
May 6, 2021, 20:55

Ongwen a child-soldier who rose through the ranks in Ugandan rebel group led by Joseph Kony

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa and secretary general Ace Magashule. Photograph: Rajesh Jantilal/AFP via Getty

Senior member of South Africa’s ruling ANC contests party suspension

Bill Corcoran
May 6, 2021, 18:35

Ace Magashule, who is accused of corruption, argues step-aside rule is unconstitutional

Refugees fleeing Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict are transferred by bus from the border reception centre to Um Raquba refugee camp after they crossed the border in Hamdayit, eastern Sudan. Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba

Mass rape used as weapon six months into war in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Sally Hayden
May 4, 2021, 21:27

Accounts from Tigray say most perpetrators of rape are Ethiopian or Eritrean troops

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa appears on behalf of the ruling party African National Congress (ANC) at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry in Johannesburg on Wednesday. Photograph: EPA/Kim Ludbrook / Pool

Corruption was rife in South Africa’s ANC, Ramaphosa tells inquiry

Bill Corcoran
April 29, 2021, 19:27

President says ruling party determined to root out the malaise

Researchers estimate the woman was between 20 and 30 years old and say the size of the baby’s skull suggest she was 26 to 28 weeks’ pregnant. Photograph: Aleksander Leydo/Warsaw Mummy Project/AFP via Getty

Scientists discover ancient Egyptian mummy of pregnant woman

April 29, 2021, 18:25

X-rays reveal mummy thought to be of male priest was well-preserved woman and foetus

Rory Young, co-founder and president of anti-poaching organisation Chengeta. Photograph: Chengeta Wildlife

Irish wildlife activist killed in Burkina Faso with two journalists

Sally Hayden
April 27, 2021, 22:46

Rory Young was co-founder of an international anti-poaching organisation

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa. Photograph: White House/Bloomberg

South African president takes high-stakes gamble on corruption inquiry

Bill Corcoran
April 27, 2021, 18:27

Cyril Ramaphosa hopes his appearance will help make break from ANC’s corrupt image

An okada motorbike driver carries a passenger in eastern Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photograph: Sally Hayden

As Sierra Leone turns 60, its army of bike riders call for end to police corruption

Sally Hayden
April 26, 2021, 21:06

Thousands protest in streets of Freetown sparking sometimes violent confrontations

Debris from a dinghy, which was supposedly carrying more than 100 migrants, floating in the Mediterranean Sea northeast of the Libyan capital Tripoli on Thursday. Photograph: AP

3:11 European and Libyan authorities accused after 130 migrants drown

Sally Hayden
April 23, 2021, 21:15

‘Events show death at sea not an accident,’ says group that takes calls from vessels in distress

Soldiers carry the coffin of the Chadian president Idriss Déby during his state funeral in N’Djamena on Friday. Photograph: Christophe Petit Tesson/EPA

The ‘crazy’ battlefield death of Chad’s French-backed strongman Déby

April 23, 2021, 11:08

Brutal and kleptocratic ruler was West’s greatest African ally in fight against extremism

This video grab obtained by AFPTV from Tele Tchad shows Mahamat Idriss (37) the son of slain Chadian president Idriss Déby. Photograph: AFPTV from Tele Tchad via Getty

3:27 Son of Chad’s autocratic president takes over after father’s death

Sally Hayden
April 21, 2021, 18:34

Idriss Déby had been in power since 1990, after ousting the dictator Hissène Habré

Residential neighbourhoods are lit by raging fires in Cape Town, South Africa. Photograph: Jerome Delay/AP Photo

Bush fire lights up Cape Town in stunning and frightening spectacle

Bill Corcoran
April 20, 2021, 18:00

Cape Town Letter: At least 400 hectares of unique flora and fauna burnt to a crisp

Idriss Déby took power in a rebellion in 1990 and was one of Africa’s longest-ruling leaders. Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA

Chad’s president Idriss Déby dies after battle with rebels

April 20, 2021, 17:24

News of western ally killed visiting troops comes hours after he won sixth term in office

Firefighting teams dampen smouldering vegetation on the foothills of Table Mountain in Cape Town on Monday. Photograph: Rodger Bosch/AFP via Getty Images

Firefighters contain Cape Town blaze but historic sites badly damaged

April 19, 2021, 18:39

Wildfire along Table Mountain forces evacuations as man suspected of starting it arrested

A facilitator from the charity Goal leads a training for community mobilisers who will help their areas create action plans focused on what to do if Ebola spreads across the border to Sierra Leone. Photograph: Sally Hayden

Terrified locals in Sierra Leone brace for another Ebola outbreak

Sally Hayden
April 19, 2021, 01:00

West African nation braced for spread of the deadly disease from neighbouring Guinea

People abd security forces gather at the scene of a railway accident in the city of Toukh in Egypt’s central Nile Delta province of Qalyubiya. Photograph: AFP via Getty Images

Eleven killed and almost 100 injured after train derails in Egypt

April 18, 2021, 20:27

At least eight train wagons ran off railway just north of Cairo

Pictured here on March 29th, the Panama-flagged MV ‘Ever Given’ has been ‘seized’ on court orders pending the resolution of a €750 million compensation claim. Photograph: Ahmed HASAN / AFP via Getty Images

Egypt seizes container vessel that blocked the Suez Canal

April 14, 2021, 14:18

Crew still stranded aboard as ship now at the centre of €750 million compensation claim

Displaced children from Western Tigray wait at meal time to receive food outside a classroom in the school where they are sheltering in Tigray’s capital, Mekelle, on February 24th. Photograph: Eduardo Soteras/AFP via Getty Images

War in Tigray threatens to end Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed’s dream of unity

April 12, 2021, 01:00

November’s invasion of Tigray has morphed into protracted and gruesome conflict

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