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Africa

26 April 2024

  • the muddy rain-sodden legs and shoes of two young people

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: heavy rainfall causes flooding and death in east Africa

    Rain in Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi kills at least 90 people and damages farmland and infrastructure
  • Rishi Sunak's head under a sign saying 'STOP THE BOATS'

    UK Rwanda policy is ‘kneejerk reaction’ to migration, says Ireland’s deputy PM

    Micheál Martin says UK asylum seekers fearful of being removed to Rwanda are seeking sanctuary in Ireland
  • Nelson Mandela casts his vote in South Africa’s first all-race election, Oshlange, black township near Durban, 27 April 1994.

    From the Guardian archive
    The day apartheid died: South Africa’s first free elections – archive, 1994

    In April 1994, the country held its first all-race, democratic elections. See how the Guardian reported events

25 April 2024

  • A male gold miner holding a spade in the background observes a female gold miner in an open-pit gold mine

    Process raw materials in Africa, urges top environmentalist

  • A group of soldiers with weapons sit on the back of a pickup truck

    Burkina Faso soldiers massacred 223 civilians in one day, finds rights group

24 April 2024

  • James Cleverly walks past a sunken small boat during a visit to Lampedusa port.

    Rwanda flights will deport asylum seekers ‘indefinitely’, says Cleverly

  • Families being helped ashore on Dungeness beach after being rescued in the English Channel by the RNLI in 2023.

    A grownup debate, not game-playing, is the only way to address the refugee crisis

  • Mia Mottley

    Barbados leader halts £3m payout to UK MP for Drax Hall plantation

  • A middle-aged woman holds up a report that says: 'The state of the world's human rights' with the Amnesty candle and barbed-wire logo behind her

    Rights and freedom
    UK accused by Amnesty of ‘deliberately destabilising’ human rights globally

  • Sudan had largest number of people facing extreme food shortages in 2023, UN report shows

  • Omen (Augure) review – Baloji offers secrets and sorcery in Congolese homecoming

  • Athens sky turns orange with dust clouds from Africa – video

23 April 2024

  • Fishing boats off the coast of Djibouti.

    At least 21 migrants dead after boat capsizes off coast of Djibouti

  • A cattle-drawn hay-laden cart move down a dusty road in Segou Region, Mali, West Africa.

    The Guardian view on the Sahel and its crises: the west can still make a difference

  • A joint UK-US military facility on Diego Garcia, part of the Chagos Islands.

    Britain must develop a partnership of equals with Africa

  • An inflatable boat filled with people surrounded by an expanse of open water.

    Stumbling blocks that could still impede Rwanda deportations

  • Council of Europe human rights watchdog condemns UK’s Rwanda bill

  • First Edition newsletter
    Tuesday briefing: Rishi Sunak finally passes his Rwanda bill – now to find out if it works

  • World Bank suspends Tanzania tourism funding after claims of killings and evictions

  • ‘It’s rude not to offer three cups’: the lengthy, beloved coffee rituals binding Ethiopians together

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