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Africa

18 July 2024

  • Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza

    Paul Kagame banned opponents like me from Rwanda’s election. No wonder he cruised to victory

    Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza
    The president won 99% of the vote. But that isn’t a sign of popularity – it’s a sign of a ‘democracy’ that silences all dissent, says Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza
  • Protesters and Kenyan anti-riot police officers during anti-government protests in Nairobi on Tuesday.

    First Edition newsletter
    Thursday briefing: How one controversial bill has Kenya on the brink of disorder

    In today’s newsletter: President William Ruto’s unpopular finance bill has sparked a wave of protests – that have been met with brutality and yet more discord in the country
  • Desert in Namibia

    The alternatives
    ‘People think they’ll smell but they don’t’: building homes from mushroom waste and weeds

    A sustainable project aims to repurpose encroacher bush to create building blocks to solve Namibia’s housing crisis

17 July 2024

  • A crowd of people, many wearing the ANC's colours of yellow and green, attend a march. Some hold their hands out while others hold placards

    Support for democracy in Africa falls amid military coups and corruption

  • A painting of a girl with her mouth sewn shut and an old women

    ‘Why didn’t my mother prevent it?’: healing the generational trauma of FGM

16 July 2024

  • Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame, casts his vote in the election in Kigali on Monday.

    Rwanda's Paul Kagame cruises to crushing election victory

  • A group of men stand outside near some trees, some holding bows

    Kidnappings soar in central Africa’s ‘triangle of death’

15 July 2024

  • An orange car and a man driving a donkey and cart pass a poster reading, 'Don't let the razorblade be our nation's symbol.'

    MPs in the Gambia vote to uphold ban on female genital mutilation

  • People queuing in a line

    Paul Kagame expected to be re-elected president as Rwanda goes to polls

  • People pulling an object wrapped in white material up a steep bank

    Kenyan police say suspected serial killer has confessed to murdering 42 women

  • A health worker in protective gear, carrying a large checklist, approaches a mother and baby at their door

    War is lead cause behind huge drop in global vaccinations, UN warns

13 July 2024

  • Kenya Red Cross workers carrying a body bag

    Kenyan police find more female body parts at Nairobi garbage dump

    Police have been scouring site in Mukuru since mutilated corpses of at least six women were found on Friday
  • The museum’s gilded copper and glass necklace

    Belgium museum wrestles with colonial past, with 40,000 objects tainted with violence

    Brussels’ AfricaMuseum, founded to glorify a brutal project, faces demands for restitution of exquisite treasures stolen from Belgian Congo
  • Dozens of people gather near a collapsed two-storey building

    Twenty-two students dead after school in Nigeria collapses during classes

    More than 154 people were initially reported trapped under the rubble but police say 132 have been rescued and treated for injuries

12 July 2024

  • A man in a white coat passes a probe over a woman's abdomen and looks at a screen.

    ‘I am happy to see how my baby is bouncing’: the AI transforming pregnancy scans in Africa

    While ultrasound services are normal practice in many countries, software being tested in Uganda will allow a scan without the need for specialists, providing an incentive for pregnant women to visit health services early on

11 July 2024

  • Protesters in Nairobi call for William Ruto to quit at a rally on 2 July

    Kenyan president sacks cabinet after weeks of deadly protests

    Only foreign minister spared as William Ruto tries to quell violence triggered by planned tax rises
  • Rwanda's president Paul Kagame waves at crowds

    ‘There will be no surprises’: Kagame set to sweep to fourth term as Rwandan president

    Kagame’s opponents are unlikely to mount any serious challenge in next week’s election, say analysts

    • Lion brothers make record-breaking 1.5km swim in hope of finding mates - video

    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      ‘Everyone was paddling to get away’: seals with rabies alarm South Africa’s surfers

    • Millions of lives upended as Sudan’s civil war leads to displacement crisis

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