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Incumbent Rwandan president Paul Kagame  arrives to cast his vote at a polling station in Kigali: has won a third term in power. Photograph:   Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images Rwanda’s Paul Kagame wins third presidential term easily
  • August 6, 2017, 20:11

Former guerrilla leader extends his 17 years in power amid talk of widespread abuses

Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi meeting with the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila at the presidential palace in Cairo earlier this year. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images More than 50 dead in ethnic violence in eastern Congo
  • August 6, 2017, 13:44

Twa pygmies attack the Luba, a Bantu ethnic group, near Kalemi, in Tanganyika province

Women and children at an IDP settlement 60km south of the town of Gode, reachable only along a dirt track through the desiccated landscape. Photograph: James Jeffrey Ethiopian camps swell with internal migrants as most aid goes elsewhere
  • James Jeffrey
  • August 5, 2017, 05:30

‘Refugees get global attention. People displaced by other factors don’t’

Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, centre, at an election rally at Uhuru Park in Nairobi on Friday. The International Criminal Court had to drop charges of crimes against humanity against Kenyatta in 2015 due to lack of evidence. Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP Shadow of violence hangs over Kenya’s presidential election
  • Peter Cluskey
  • August 4, 2017, 18:51

Bitter campaign awakens ghosts of 2007 post-election bloodshed, which killed 1,500

Demonstrators  hold placards as they protest over the death of Chris Msando, a senior Kenyan election official who was found murdered in Nairobi, on Tuesday. Photograph:  Baz Ratner/Reuters Protesters demand inquiry into murder of Kenya election official
  • August 1, 2017, 13:30

Chris Msando was tortured before being killed, raising fears ahead of national election

Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta greets thousands of cheering supporters at a rally in Nairobi, Kenya. Photograph: Dai Kurokawa/EPA As Kenya prepares for election, the spectre of violence looms
  • Bill Corcoran
  • July 24, 2017, 01:00

Tribal identity politics rather than broad-based party politics still dominate

Zainabeu Hamayaji, 47, who hid her daughter in a ditch in her back garden for nine months while Boko Haram occupied their town. Her husband was killed. Photograph: Sally Hayden Escaping Boko Haram: The mother who hid her child in a ditch for nine months
  • Sally Hayden
  • July 22, 2017, 01:00

Nigerian woman describes the moment the violent militias arrived in her home town

Former Irish president Mary Robinson and Graça Machel, widow of former president Nelson Mandela, join a walk to commemorate what would have been Mandela’s 99th birthday in Cape Town, South Africa. Photograph: REUTERS/Mike Hutchings Group founded by Nelson Mandela to promote 52 grassroots organisations
  • Bill Corcoran
  • July 18, 2017, 19:29

Supporting community organisations was response to growth of xenophobia, nationalism and populism

Zambian president Edgar Lungu in Lusaka. In response to the allegations that he is becoming increasingly dictatorial, Lungu insisted Zambia was Africa’s most accomplished democracy, and that he was only trying to bring “sanity” to the country. Photograph: Dawood Salim/Getty Zambia’s president Edgar Lungu ‘plotting dictatorship’
  • Bill Corcoran
  • July 16, 2017, 19:27

Request for state of emergency seen as latest sign of efforts to quell dissent to his rule

Damage to crops has been exacerbated by infestations of crop-eating caterpillars known as fall armyworms Rains fail again in East Africa and hunger on the rise, says UN
  • July 16, 2017, 16:31

Some 16m need humanitarian aid in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

Shimelba was the first Eritrean refugee camp to open, in 2004. It now houses more than 6,000 refugees. Photograph: James Jeffrey Ethiopia continues to embrace the enemy
  • James Jeffrey
  • July 15, 2017, 02:00

Every day Eritrean refugees make the perilous journey across the border into Ethiopia

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

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