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Sinkholes, scarred land and scapegoats: the scourge of illegal gold mining in Johannesburg | Mining

Cora Bailey has been encountering illegal miners ever since she first started treating injured animals in the townships around Roodepoort, west of Johannesburg, in...

Egypt fines prominent editor Lina Attalah and shuts independent news outlet Mada Masr | Egypt

Lina Attalah, a prominent Egyptian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the news outlet Mada Masr, has been released from detention by Egypt’s authorities and...

Africa’s ‘unprecedented’ Ebola outbreak could reach UK, says top health official | Global development

The “unprecedented” spread of the Ebola outbreak means it could reach the UK and other countries, according to one of Africa’s top health officials.As...

France confirms first Ebola case in doctor who had worked in DRC | France

The first case of Ebola has been confirmed in France, the country’s health ministry has said, in a doctor who had returned from a...

Play puts spotlight on Kenya’s crisis of gender-based violence | Kenya

There are audible gasps in the auditorium in Nairobi as a husband launches a volley of blows and slaps on his wife and pushes...

Kenyan minister orders halt to construction of US Ebola facility | Ebola

Kenya’s health minister told a court he had ordered preparations for a US-run Ebola quarantine facility to stop, after being held in contempt for...

Sweat, tears and camaraderie as 20,000 runners take on world’s largest ultramarathon | South Africa

In the early morning dark, thousands of runners waited, jostling with anticipation. South Africa’s national anthem rang out. Then the haunting swell of Shosholoza,...

Global framework for reparatory justice adopted at landmark conference in Ghana | Reparations and reparative justice

A global framework for reparatory justice has been adopted at a conference in Ghana.Heads of state and government and other officials formally approved the...

CDC to tap $107m in emergency funding for Ebola response in DRC and Uganda | Trump administration

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will tap $107m in emergency funding for Ebola outbreak response in the Democratic Republic of the...

South African men sentenced in ‘world’s largest’ rhino horn trafficking case | South Africa

Two traffickers of rhino horns have been sentenced by a South African court in what police said was the world’s largest such case, partly...

Seven-year-old Abdiqadir was hit in a US airstrike. Without a $750 operation, he may lose his ability to walk | Somalia

A seven-year-old boy who was riddled with shrapnel during a deadly US airstrike in Somalia faces losing his ability to walk unless he has...

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