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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...

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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...

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Nigeria has confirmed an Ebola case in its capital, Abuja, after a woman who arrived from Uganda tested positive for the virus, the health...

US grants deportation reprieve to migrants from Ukraine and Sudan | US immigration

More than 100,000 people from Ukraine and Sudan can stay in the United States without immediate risk of deportation, the Department of Homeland Security...

Kenyan starvation cult leader guilty of murder of 190 children and one adult | Kenya

A Kenyan court has found the starvation cult leader Paul Mackenzie and about 30 others guilty of murder over the deaths of ⁠190 children...

Third Ebola case in Kenya highlights US failures amid Trump cuts to key services | Ebola

A third person in Kenya has tested positive for Bundibugyo ebolavirus in the country’s first-ever cluster of Ebola cases, as the second-largest outbreak in...

Hilarious quips and ‘100,000-volt’ energy: the hypemen (and women) redefining Afrobeats music | Nigeria

For the 2015 freshmen cohort of the history degree programme at the University of Lagos, their classmate’s first-semester presentation was so captivating that they...

An extraordinary life: descendant welcomes biography of woman ‘gifted’ to Queen Victoria | Colonialism

When she was seven years old, Bayo Randle’s great-great-grandmother Sarah Forbes Bonetta was presented to Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle as a “diplomatic gift”...

LGBTQ+ people go into hiding in Senegal as hundreds are arrested | Global development

Mass arrests, forced HIV testing and barriers to legal representation are part of an escalating crackdown against LGBTQ+ people in Senegal, according to a...

Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza denies using AI to write prize-winning story | AI (artificial intelligence)

The Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Kundizeza has denied using AI to write a prize-winning short story after an article in the Atlantic said software had...

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