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Africa
Rwanda: My return home 30 years after genocide
I left my home in Rwanda, the country of my birth, 30 years ago at the age of 12...
Hardest Geezer Russ Cook runs the entire length of Africa
Before he set off on the mammoth challenge to run the entire length of Africa, Russell...
Why scores of dogs will honour a Great Dane in Cape Town...
A quaint local festival celebrates the life of the first dog to receive a Royal...
Why mass kidnappings still plague Nigeria a decade after...
Nigeria, with one of the strongest armies in the region, is struggling to tackle...
Uganda’s Constitutional Court rejects petition against...
Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 imposes penalties of up to life in prison for consensual...
Ethiopia’s army accused of committing war crimes in Amhara...
Human Rights Watch says Ethiopia’s army ‘summarily executed’ several dozen civilians...
El Nino-linked drought threatens energy and food supplies...
An extreme drought is parching countries across southern Africa, withering crops,...
South Africa election 2024: ‘You see skeletons’ - the deadly...
Many migrants risk all to reach South Africa, making a notoriously dangerous journey...
Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany
The president of Botswana has threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany in...
DR Congo president names Judith Suminwa Tuluka as first...
Judith Suminwa says she will work for peace and the development of the country,...
‘Humour is powerful’: Cartoons take on Uganda’s repressive...
Huge potholes and rundown hospitals are actually getting fixed, thanks to a cartoonist’s...
At least 45 people killed and one survivor after South...
An eight-year-old girl survived and was airlifted to hospital in serious condition.
The pickled fish dish that unites Christians and Muslims...
Christians eat fish on Good Friday. But in Cape Town the fish is almost always smothered...
South Sudan on the brink after oil exports derailed by...
Experts say that a halt in oil production could escalate already acute levels of...
Senegal’s Bassirou Diomaye Faye takes early lead in presidential...
Opposition supporters take to streets in celebration but ruling coalition says a...