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5 September 2024

  • Rebecca Cheptegei’s family speak after death of runner set on fire by former partner – video

    Police say the Ugandan runner's partner attacked her amid a dispute over land in Kenya
  • Rebecca Cheptegei pictured taking part in a 10km road race in Uganda last year

    Rebecca Cheptegei’s family demand justice after death of runner set on fire by former partner

    Marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei has died after she sustained 80% burns during an attack in Kenya on Sunday
  • Jessica Buchanan at ALX Community in Alexandria, Virginia, in August

    How we survive
    ‘They’d ask me: “Do you want to die today?”’ How I was kidnapped by pirates – and rescued by US Navy Seals

    In 2011, aid worker Jessica Buchanan was taken captive in Somalia. It was more than three months before she was freed – and every day felt like it might be her last

3 September 2024

  • Trucks carry the bodies of people killed by suspected Boko Haram militants in Yobe, Nigeria

    At least 80 dead after suspected Boko Haram attack in Nigeria

  • Bobi Wine ran for presidency of Uganda in 2021.

    Ugandan opposition leader shot in leg after police confrontation

  • This image made from video shows police officers outside Makala prison in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, following an attempted jailbreak in Congo's main prison Monday Sept. 2, 2024. (AP Photo)

    More than 100 killed in attempt to escape DRC’s largest prison

  • King Mswati III in ceremonial dress

    Daughter of South Africa’s ex-president Zuma to be Eswatini king’s 16th wife

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Saving lives on a single breath: how ‘safeties’ like me allow freedivers to take part in high-stakes competitions

  • ‘Always outsiders, always men, always white’: how women are changing the narrative of wildlife film-making

2 September 2024

  • A child reads a book with her mother in their local Wolof language in Senegal.

    Western media’s focus on colonial languages

  • Abd al-Rahman Milad, known as Bija

    Notorious people smuggler shot dead in Libya, officials say

  • Two mud-brick buildings with blue doors

    ‘There’s a lot to be built still’: the architect Mariam Issoufou on excavating the past to build Africa’s future

  • A man watches a fire in a sugar cane plantation.

    Weather tracker: extreme heat hits Brazil, fuelling risk of wildfires

1 September 2024

  • Chidimma Adetshina with tiara, ribbon and flowers

    South African beauty queen crowned Miss Nigeria after nationality row

  • A doctor in a blue uniform and mask speaking with patients outside a treatment centreepicentre of the epidemic that led the World Health Organisation (WHO) to trigger its highest level of alert at the international level on Wednesday. The province of South Kivu records around 350 new cases per week, according to Dr Justin Bengehya, epidemiologist at the provincial health division of South Kivu. Goma, capital of the province of North Kivu, almost surrounded by an armed rebellion and where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are crammed into makeshift camps, fears a large-scale spread due to promiscuity. (Photo by GUERCHOM NDEBO / AFP) (Photo by GUERCHOM NDEBO/AFP via Getty Images)

    African nations hit by mpox still waiting for vaccines – despite promises by the west

August 2024

  • A woman with a parasol walks past a VW Beetle parked in residential neighbourhood of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Ethiopia’s Beetle mania: how an entire country fell in love with Volkswagen’s quirky classic

    A common sight on the streets of the capital, the durable vehicles are workhorses for some, a part of the family for others, while enthusiasts restore them to their former glory
  • Q the music … QDance in Lagos, with Onikeku seated (centre).

    Choreographer Qudus Onikeku: ‘I want to mirror the real world – vibrant, chaotic, problematic’

    As a child in Lagos, he felt like Billy Elliot, following a passion for dance despite his family’s disapproval. Now, having found success in France, he’s returned to his native Nigeria to mastermind a pan-African creative awakening

    • ‘I was in tears’: exhibition tells human stories of Portugal’s colonial legacy

    • Fair Access
      ‘I wasn’t sure I’d make it’: how a new mother’s brush with TB could mean better treatment for pregnant women

    • US and UN call for talks in Libyan dispute over control of central bank

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