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Africa

31 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

30 August 2024

  • Q the music … QDance in Lagos, with Onikeku seated (centre).

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

  • Padrão dos Descobrimentos, a monument building on the river in Lisbon,

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

28 August 2024

  • A middle-aged African woman in jeans and a red shirt sits on stairs looking at the camera

    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

    Fewer that 1.5% of drugs trials between 1960 and 2013 included expectant women. Now, campaigners and doctors are aiming to change that
  • Police stand guard outside Libya's central bank headquarters in Tripoli

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

    UN-backed institutions in west of Libya show no sign of backing down over dismissal of bank’s governor of 20 years
  • People on the ferry

    Senegal’s troubled Casamance region hopes for peace with rise of local boy to PM

    Role at top of government for Ousmane Sonko brings hope for investment in isolated region marred by separatist strife

27 August 2024

  • A man wearing blue PPE overalls walks between barriers made of orange netting and wood past roughly constructed buildings made of wood with tin roofs.

    Inside the camp on the frontline of the DRC’s mpox epidemic – in pictures

  • SUDAN-CONFLICT-POLITICS<br>Members of Sudan's armed forces take part in a military parade held on Army Day in Gadaref on August 14, 2024. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

    Opinion
    Sudan needs an exceptional humanitarian endeavour to end its horrific civil war

    Mukesh Kapila

26 August 2024

  • Sudanese people cross a damaged road surrounded by mud and floodwater

    Flood surge in Sudan bursts dam, destroying villages and killing dozens

  • A young black African man wearing sunglasses and a cap performs on stage

    ‘There’s never been a greater time to be a Nigerian artist’: but is there room for the next Burna Boy?

  • A woman seen from behind standing in a gated doorway

    Rights and freedom
    ‘I miss home’: 13-year-old Nigerian girls trapped and exploited in Ivory Coast sex industry

  • A skier smiles while holding her ski helmet strap amid shelves of boots

    From the agencies
    Afriski, Lesotho’s ski resort – in pictures

25 August 2024

  • Rapper Macklemore performs

    Macklemore cancels Dubai show to protest UAE role in Sudan civil war

  • Red Cross workers in a displacement camp in DRC talking to people outside their temporary homes. One girl is raising her hands

    ‘Everyone was afraid’: DRC’s most vulnerable on the mpox frontline

  • African penguins on a beach in Cape Town, South Africa

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Minister seeks legal settlement in case of South Africa’s imperilled penguins

  • Women and young children sitting outside a treatment centre for Mpox

    Africa to finally receive first batch of vaccines for deadly mpox virus

22 August 2024

  • Lewis Hamilton speaks with journalists in the paddock before the Dutch Grand Prix.

    ‘Really heavy to see’: Lewis Hamilton speaks up on plight of refugees in Africa

  • The diamond held in the cupped palm of a hand

    Botswana diamond could be second-largest gem-quality example ever found

  • A busy road with people, market stalls, buses and trucks

    Rapidly urbanising Africa to have six cities with populations above 10m by 2035

  • Debora MacKenzie

    The new mpox variant may appear to be less deadly but it is spreading fast. Complacency would be a grave error

    Debora MacKenzie
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