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Soldiers of Malian security forces walk around the Kangaba tourist resort following an attack on Sunday. Photograph: Reuters In Mali, it is ‘difficult to separate myth from reality’, says Defence Forces member
  • Sarah Burns
  • June 20, 2017, 07:22

Lieut Col Bernard Markey recalls ‘growing violence’ after return from six-month tour

 Mali’s security ministry said gunmen were attacking the Le Campement resort in Dougourakoro east of the capital Bamako.  Image: Google Maps ‘Two killed’ after gunmen attack tourist resort in Mali
  • June 18, 2017, 21:56

Security rescue 32 guests as suspected jihadists raid facility east of capital Bamako

Emmanuel Rutema, a Tanzanian boy with albinism who had his arm chopped off in a superstition-driven attack, tries on a new prosthetic arm at the Shriners Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters Albino children attacked for body parts get new limbs in America
  • Ellen Wulfhorst
  • June 14, 2017, 06:00

In Tanzania, the body parts of people with albinism are used in witchcraft

Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration  in the Rif region in Rabat, Morocco on Sunday. Photograph: Reuters Morocco protests intensify despite government clampdown
  • Guy Hedgecoe
  • June 12, 2017, 16:04

Rif region demands social investment and release of demonstrators

Saif al-Islam Gadafy, son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gadafy, attends a hearing behind bars in a courtroom in Zintan in 2014. Photograph: Reuters Gadafy’s son ‘freed’ in Libya after being held for six years
  • June 11, 2017, 15:12

Whereabouts of man who was sentenced to death for war crimes in 2015 unknown

Western Cape premier Helen Zille, who will face disciplinary proceedings by her political party, Democratic Alliance, on Friday over tweets she made about colonialism. Photograph: Schalk van Zuydam/AP Anger over Helen Zille’s ‘colonialism’ tweets
  • Bill Corcoran
  • June 8, 2017, 18:26

Western Cape premier accused of ‘racism’ and faces disciplinary proceedings

The killings of two bald men in Mozambique have prompted police to warn of the danger of ritual attacks. Photograph: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters Mozambique police warn that bald people could be targets of ritual killings
  • June 8, 2017, 13:49

Two men killed and body parts thought to have been used in witchcraft

A cargo train leaves the container terminal for its inaugural journey to Nairobi, at the port of the coastal town of Mombasa. Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images Kenya inaugurates Chinese-built railway linking port to capital
  • May 31, 2017, 17:30

‘Anybody who cannot see what China has done for Kenya must be blind. China is the way to go.’

South African president  Jacob Zuma during the ANC’s National Executive Committee meeting in Pretoria on Saturday. Photograph:  Phill Magakoe/AFP/Getty Images Zuma survives ANC attempt to oust him as head of state
  • Joseph Cotterill
  • May 29, 2017, 12:40

South African president’s allies fight off challenge as party split deepens

A traditional dance act performs at the Kakuma’s Got Talent audition in Kakuma refugee camp, northern Kenya. Photograph: Ruairi Casey Young refugees of Kakuma turn to music to forget their troubles
  • Ruairi Casey
  • May 22, 2017, 01:00

Life for young people stuck in a camp in Kenya inspires little but despondency

Leader of the Libyan National Army General Khalifa Haftar. A spokesman for the LNA said 103 of those killed in the attack at the air base were LNA troops. Photograph: Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters Death toll at Libya air base rises to ‘more than 140’
  • May 20, 2017, 11:39

Government suspends defence minister pending investigation into Thursday’s attack

Libin, a Somali refugee, says goodbye to her friends at Kakuma airstrip as she prepares to depart for a new life in US. Photograph: Ruairi Casey The American dream: Freedom is elusive for refugees in Kenya
  • Ruairi Casey
  • May 20, 2017, 01:00

Young refugees at Kakuma often compare the 200,000-strong camp to a prison

Ivorian soldiers and gendarmes patrol at Ivory Coast’s army headquarters, the Gallieni military camp, in Abidjan.  Photograph: Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images Mutinous soldiers cut off Ivory Coast’s second-largest city
  • May 13, 2017, 18:32

Roads out of Bouake blocked as revolt escalates over demands for bonus payments

 A Liberian Red Cross burial team retrieves the body of a suspected victim of Ebola in Banjor, on the outskirts of Monrovia. Photograph: EPA/Ahmed Jallanzo New outbreak of Ebola declared in Democratic Republic of Congo
  • May 12, 2017, 17:36

One confirmed case of the virus in the northeast of the country, says WHO

People outside a Gondar church with crosses marked in ash on foreheads. Photograph: James Jeffrey Anguish and unrest in Amhara over Ethiopian state of emergency
  • James Jeffrey
  • May 11, 2017, 17:44

Anti-government protests spread from Oromia to country’s second most populous area

Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrives at a courthouse  in Curitiba, Brazil, on Wednesday, to face graft charges. Photograph: Nacho Doce/Reuters Lula appears in court in Brazil to face graft charges
  • May 10, 2017, 19:36

Former president accused of corruption in case he describes as a ‘political witch hunt’

Ugandan  academic Stella Nyanzi smiles as she appears at Buganda Road court charged with cybercrimes after she posted profanity-filled denunciations of president Yowewri Museveni on Facebook, in Kampala, Uganda, on  April 25th. Photograph: James Akena/Reuters Ugandan court grants bail to jailed government critic
  • May 10, 2017, 19:20

Stella Nyanzi accused president Yoweri Museveni of nepotism, extravagance and corruption

El-Haqed, a young Moroccan rapper known for his anti-monarchy lyrics. Photographs: Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images Moroccan rappers voice anger of the Arab Spring generation
  • Guy Hedgecoe
  • May 10, 2017, 13:44

Six years on from protests, inequality remains rife and freedom of speech is muzzled

A replica skull of a new skeleton fossil findings of the Homo Naledi Hominin species at the cradle of Human Kind in Maropeng near Johannesburg. Photograph: Getty Images Ancient human-relative fossils earlier vintage than first thought
  • May 9, 2017, 14:21

Evidence produced that Homo naledi may have been pushed to extinction by humans

While the symptoms of this disease are different from Ebola, the sudden deaths have stirred anxiety. File photograph: Getty Images Worries mount in Liberia over latest disease in wake of Ebola panic
  • May 8, 2017, 20:09

Samples from four victims initially baffled experts as mystery illness, but now identified

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