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19 August 2024

  • A protester standing in a group of young people holds a Kenyan flag as smoke rises behind themA protester holds a Kenyan flag during the nationwide demonstration. Kenyan law enforcement fired teargas and live ammunition into the largely peaceful crowd, with unconfirmed reports of several dead on social media. Protesters called for members of Kenya's Parliament to reject the proposed legislation, which would increase taxes across the country's economy. Kenya Finance Bill Protests in Nairobi - 25 Jun 2024

    ‘A revolution is building’: can young people force change across Africa?

    Africa has the youngest population of any continent, and recent protests in Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda suggest growing youth disillusionment. Will they be able to turn discontent into action?

18 August 2024

  • A view of the frontage of the Central Bank of Libya in Tripoli

    Libya’s central bank ‘suspends operations’ after official abducted

    Head of IT was kidnapped in Tripoli and other executives threatened a week after siege at bank

17 August 2024

  • A health worker in a mask and surgical scrubs, holding small boxes of medicine, walks past plastic-betted fences and a corrugated iron roofed building in Africa

    Failure to deal with mpox outbreak ‘is risk not just to Africa but whole world’

    Health leaders warn that global response to virus is test case for equity and preparation for future pandemics

16 August 2024

  • This image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue)

    What is mpox and why has it been declared a global health emergency?

  • African woman with suspected mpox, face not visible but small raised lumps can be seen on her upper right arm.

    Mpox screening stepped up globally as more cases emerge outside Africa

  • FINLAND-US-RUSSIA-POLITICS-DIPLOMACY-SUMMIT-DEMONSTRATION<br>A protester of the #ResistGag movement holds asign reading "If Trump got pregnant there wouldn't be a gag rule" during a protest at the Senate square in Helsinki, Finland on July 16, 2018, to support women's rights ahead of the meeting between US President and his Russian counterpart. (Photo by Alessandro RAMPAZZO / AFP) (Photo credit should read ALESSANDRO RAMPAZZO/AFP/Getty Images)

    Global health charities warn of ‘huge and terrible’ threat to abortion rights if Trump returns

  • Freetown, Sierra Leone

    The alternatives
    ‘Now you can have rest in your home’: the mirror roofs cooling homes in Freetown

  • Mpox: Sweden confirms first case of ‘more grave’ variant outside Africa

  • Feast your eyes: the Ugandan artist serving up a potent mix of food, art and family

15 August 2024

  • Statue depicting female runner holding a miniature Kenyan flag in her left hand

    ‘A violation’: Kenyan town removes athlete statues after uproar about unrecognisable features

  • Susan Wanjohi holds a poster of her son Emmanuel Kamau outside their house in Kasarani, Nairobi.

    ‘Enforced disappearances’ send a chill through Kenya’s protests

14 August 2024

  • People line up to register for food aid at a camp for internally displaced persons in Agari, North Kordofan.

    The Guardian view on Sudan’s vicious war: civilians suffer as outsiders jostle for advantage

  • A nurse wearing white glove takes a sample from a child with a suspected case of mpox

    Mpox outbreak in Africa is public health emergency, declares WHO

  • A woman lifts a flat object out of a pool of muddy water next to damaged and destroyed houses

    At least 68 people killed in flooding as rains worsen Sudan’s plight

  • A girl in an arid landscape in Mali

    Half a billion children live in areas with twice as many very hot days as in 1960s

13 August 2024

  • Laboratory nurse takes a sample from a child declared a suspected case of Mpox at the treatment centre in Munigi, following Mpox cases in Nyiragongo territory near Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo July 19, 2024

    Africa CDC declares mpox outbreak a public health emergency

  • A memorial marks the location of a mass burial site of those massacred in 2004 by the LRA at the Barlonyo displaced persons camp in northern Uganda.

    Ex-LRA commander convicted of crimes against humanity in landmark Ugandan trial

  • A young child partly covered with a blanket gazes upwards in a displacement camp

    Sudanese factions using starvation as weapon is ‘cowardice’, US envoy says

  • Recurring Floods In South Sudan Displace Refugees And Host Communities<br>BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN - NOVEMBER 28: A group of women walk along a dyke protecting Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), and their host community, from further flooding on November 28, 2023 in Bentiu, South Sudan. Climate change has divided South Sudan into land that is experiencing unprecedented flooding or drought, with record flooding creating widespread displacement, the destruction of livelihoods and the loss of arable land which all contribute to rising hunger and cases of malnutrition. The ongoing war in Sudan has caused displacement of over 3.3 million people, some redirected refugees travelling back to South Sudan. (Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images)

    A drowning town: are Bentiu’s dykes high enough to save it from disaster?

12 August 2024

  • Headshot of Tundu Lissu

    Tanzania opposition leaders and supporters arrested in crackdown

    Senior Chadema party figures including vice-chair detained as well as about 400 people heading to youth gathering
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