As president of Botswana, I know how we can make malaria a memory in Africa | Duma Gideon Boko
The disease is soaring as funding is cut. African nations are plugging the gap but they need help with the transitionBotswana nearly defeated malaria. In 2024, we recorded just 29…
Olympic champion Smith to come out of retirement
"Crazy, scaring and exciting" - South Africa's double Olympic swimming champion Tatjana Smith reverses her retirement decision to chase a spot at the LA 2028 Games.
Grief, trauma and solidarity as South African running club mourns member killed in wave of femicides
A week after Elizabeth ‘Tsontso’ Moselakgomo’s body was found, runners took part in a morning run to honour her name and demand more protectionThe runners smiled and laughed, cong…
Healthcare in Africa ‘under growing strain’ after US withdrawal from aid programs, report warns
Accra Reset’s report states countries in the region and global south should take greater control of their health development after USAID debacleThe United States’ withdrawal from …
Madagascar's singing lemurs use opera technique, study finds
University of Warwick scientists have spent years studying indri lemurs.
First UK charges brought over 1994 Rwanda genocide
Dr Vincent Brown, formerly Dr Vincent Bajinya, 65, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday charged with seven offences.
Three arrested in South Africa over one of nine women's bodies found
The body of Jabulile Ntimba was the ninth to be found recently in an area east of Johannesburg.
Rising Up at Night review – community spirit shines bright in Kinshasa’s shadows
Religion and collective resilience are beacons of hope in an electricity-deprived DRC in this otherworldly documentary debutIn Nelson Makengo’s feature documentary debut, night st…
Seven Ethiopian rebel groups form new alliance
The groups have been active in Ethiopia's most populous regions for years and now say they will work together.
Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on th…
Ngetich breaks women-only half-marathon record
Kenya's Agnes Ngetich breaks the world record for a women-only half marathon as she wins gold at the World Road Running Championships in Copenhagen.
'I don't even know if my parents are alive' - the war heroes jailed 25 years ago
The children of key politicians jailed 25 years ago without a trace in Eritrea want answers.
'Enough is enough': Women protest after string of murders near Johannesburg
The police have since set up a task team to investigate the murders and have urged women in the Kempton Park area to avoid walking or running alone "particularly in isolated areas…
Nine women in South Africa have been murdered since July. We are being told to be vigilant – but where are the warnings to men? | Nolethu Ndude
The country has one of the highest femicide rates in the world, and women are yet again being asked to remove themselves from public life to counter itWhen I heard the authorities…
Grim discoveries of murdered women spark fear in South Africa
Dineo Motapane is one of nine recent victims whose deaths have left a nation traumatised over the level of violence against women.
Men deported from US bound and beaten in Equatorial Guinea detention hotel, lawyers say
Group trapped at Hotel Bamy after US removal as rights groups sound alarm over poor conditions and violenceTwo men that the Trump administration expelled to Equatorial Guinea were…
Survivor recounts panic and struggle to breathe in Nigerian prison cell where 37 died
Police fire teargas as protests break out in the city of Minna after the deaths of the suspected illegal goldminersA survivor from a prison cell in Nigeria where 37 suspected ille…
South Sudanese teen who piloted migrant boat jailed in UK
Chan Mathok Atak has been sentenced to two years and three months in prison after piloting the boat.
British woman who was kidnapped in Malawi rescued by police after shootout
Four of Nurat Osman’s alleged abductors were killed during rescue after she was taken from outside her home last weekA British woman kidnapped in Malawi last week has been rescued…
Louisiana firefighters find feline native to sub-Saharan Africa while responding to house fire
The African serval, illegally enclosed in the back yard, was subdued and transferred to an animal welfare facility Louisiana firefighters responding to a small house blaze found a…
‘We demand the truth’: Olga Tokarczuk and JM Coetzee lead calls for proof of life of disappeared Eritrean writers
More than 180 writers sign letter renewing calls for information on 12 authors detained incommunicado since 2001 crackdown on free speech by Isaias AfwerkiMore than 180 writers ha…
‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator displayThree cartographers have spoken of their astonishment at the UN’s near…
British woman rescued in Malawi shootout that left four suspected kidnappers dead
The mother of two young children was kidnapped last week in the middle of the day in the main city, Blantyre.
Nigerian police probe 37 deaths in custody of suspected illegal miners
Authorities linked the deaths to disease, but the official explanation has been disputed by intelligence reports and relatives of the accused.