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Veteran Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye stands in the dock at the courtroom where he was charged with inciting violence during a protest against soaring consumer prices, in Kampala, Uganda May 25, 2022.
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Ugandan opposition politician kidnapped in Kenya, wife says
Police officers and private security personnel stand by the opening of a reformed gold mineshaft where illegal miners are trapped in Stilfontein, South Africa, on November 15.
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Court orders South Africa police to end standoff with illegal miners
An aerial view of a mine shaft where an estimated 4000 illegal miners are trapped in a disused mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, on November 13, 2024.
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Hundreds of illegal miners holed up in disused shaft in South Africa. Here’s what we know
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‘He beat me up, and I ended up in hospital.’ Then she ended up on death row.
Police fired tear gas during a protest in Abuja, Nigeria, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024.
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Nigeria court frees 119 protesters, some facing death penalty, after government drops charges
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At least 25 dead after boat ‘deliberately capsized by traffickers,’ says UN migration agency
Refugees live in makeshift mud and grass-thatch homes in Palabek Refugee Settlement in northern Uganda, East Africa.
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Lightning strike kills 14 at prayer service in Uganda refugee camp, police say
Police fired tear gas during a protest in Abuja, Nigeria, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. Thousands of mostly young people poured onto the streets across Nigeria on Thursday as they protested against the country's worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. Security forces fired tear gas to disperse some of the protesters in the capital, Abuja.
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29 children may be sentenced to death for protesting against cost-of-living crisis in Nigeria
At least 124 people were killed in attack by the Sudanese paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a village south of Sudan's capital Khartoum on Friday, activists and doctors say.
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124 killed as Sudanese paramilitary group attacks village, doctors and activists say

Features

The armed group poses for a photograph after saying they will release us. Some of the soldiers looked like young teens.
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‘The world doesn’t see us:’ What a militia chief said while holding me captive in Darfur
Millions have escaped Sudan’s civil war. But their nightmare isn’t over
‘The hostility was something I’d never experienced before’: The cost to women of the overlooked rise of Kenya’s manosphere
EVs are starting to overtake gas-powered cars in a surprising place
African cities sitting on ‘keg of gunpowder’ as growing youth anger fuels unrest
The British Army trains in Kenya. Many women say soldiers raped them and abandoned children they fathered
Against the backdrop of rising anti-LGBTQ sentiment, these Nigerian fashion labels feel forced to show in private
Jacob Zuma has made a dramatic comeback in South Africa’s elections. Will he have the last laugh over Ramaphosa?
Nelson Mandela’s party has been dealt a seismic election blow. Where does it leave South Africa?
Nelson Mandela’s party has ruled South Africa for three decades – it now faces a critical moment of truth
South Africa has failed its Black majority. Nelson Mandela’s political heirs may pay the price
Forced to pay bribes at every step. How trans and intersex people say they survive in Kenya

African Voices Changemakers

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Why Ghanaian singer King Promise and other African artists don’t want to be boxed into Afrobeats
Video Ghanaian singer King Promise champions African music on the global stage 23:06
Video How two creators are changing the edutainment narrative for children in Africa through animation 23:02
‘The best way to pay tribute to him’: Francis Ngannou on his return to MMA following the death of his 15-month-old son
Video Rema is setting the tone for the next wave of Afrobeats 23:00
‘Turning my life into something people can watch, pains me’: Wole Soyinka on having his memoir made into a movie
Video There’s more to African music than Afrobeats – just listen to these artists 23:00
Dusty & Stones want the world to lend an ear to African country music

Inside Africa

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How giant rodents could rat on wildlife traffickers
The gigantic dunes rising up out of the world’s oldest desert
Hydrogen-powered skyscraper set for Egypt’s new capital
A South African vineyard is dropping predatory wasps from drones to keep its grapes free from bugs
Huge 2,492-carat diamond, believed to be world’s second-largest, unearthed in Botswana
Grand Stade Hassan II: Design revealed for one of the world’s largest stadiums ahead of 2030 World Cup

Connecting Africa

A train on the Lobito railway in Angola, in August.
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A rejuvenated railway could change how minerals move in Africa – and globally
Electric motorcycle completes solar-powered 6,000-kilometer journey through Africa
Intra-Africa trade could double in next five years, says Secretary General of African Continental Free Trade Area
Why Africa is doubling down on its space ambitions
Video How African aviation could be set to soar 23:07
Video A rare look inside Africa’s largest oil refinery 23:00

African start-up

Dr Funmi Adewara- Founder and CEO of Mobihealth International- a multi award winning Telehealth company improving access to affordable healthcare for women and children in underserved communities in Africa.
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How Mobihealth is driving a telemedicine revolution in Africa
Chowdeck is hungry for Nigeria’s food delivery market. One day, it wants to be a ‘super-app for Africa’
This Nigerian company wants to be the Airbnb of car rentals
From Nigeria to London: Nelly Agbogu is on a mission to elevate African small businesses

Africa Avant Garde

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Art historian and curator Alayo Akinkugbe on reframing Blackness
For Nigerian artist Nengi Omuku every painting has two sides
This Madagascan artist is sending her paintings to the moon
A stunning metal sculpture shows ‘the beauty of Black women all over the world’

Call to earth

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Angola nearly lost its national animal to poaching. Here’s how a team of dedicated conservationists brought it back

More of the latest stories

Blind football Team in South Sudan. Simon Madol (DIF) is the trainer.
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‘A disability is not inability’: How this blind soccer league is changing lives in the world’s newest country
Britain's King Charles III delivers a speech during the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Apia, Samoa, on October 25.
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King Charles acknowledges ‘painful’ history amid calls for slavery reparations at Commonwealth summit
King Charles visits O Le Pupu-Pue National Park in Samoa October 24, 2024 on Thursday, at the start of the Commonwealth summit.
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King Charles and Keir Starmer brace for reparations debate at Commonwealth summit
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Dog spotted hanging out on top of ancient pyramid in Egypt
People gather at the scene of a fuel tanker explosion in Majiya town, Nigeria, on October 16, 2024.
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Toll rises to 153 from Nigeria fuel tanker explosion
Olugbenga Agboola- Founder and CEO- Flutterwave
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Flutterwave CEO GB Agboola on rebuilding trust, and strengthening Africa’s payments future
No cases of Marburg have been reported outside Rwanda as part of this outbreak, and officials say the current risk to the US is low.
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CDC will start screening travelers from Rwanda to the US for Marburg virus
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The Pearl of Africa: Discovering Uganda’s Natural Wonders
Tunisian President and candidate for re-election, Kais Saied, front, and his wife Ichraf Chebil Saied arrive to a polling station to cast their votes during the presidential elections, in the capital Tunis, Tunisia, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024.
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Tunisia heads to the polls with a fading reputation as the Arab Spring’s only success story
General view of the town of Barsalogho, Burkina Faso, on May 29th 2024. A group of relatives of victims of the recent massacre in Barsalogho, in central Burkina Faso, accuses the army of forcing residents to leave the town, exposing them to an attack by a jihadist group affiliated with Al-Qaeda that left dozens dead. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Massacre in Burkina Faso left 600 dead, double previous estimates, according to French security assessment
An undated file photo shows Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major United States military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean leased from Britain in 1966. The United States is preparing to deploy heavy B-2 bombers to Britian and the Indian Ocean Island of Diego Garcia, if necessary in time to lead an attack on Iraq, the officer in charge of the fleet said on October 30 2002. REUTERS/HO/U.S. Navy CLH/JS
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Britain agrees Chagos Island sovereignty deal with Mauritius
As part of the outbreak, 26 people have gotten sick, and eight have died.
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Rwanda is dealing with its first outbreak of deadly Marburg virus disease