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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...

UK’s biggest weapons firm BAE grounds ‘lifeline’ aircraft delivering food aid | Global development

Britain’s biggest weapons manufacturer, BAE Systems, has quietly scrapped support for a fleet of aircraft providing “life-saving” humanitarian aid to some of the world’s...

Cuban man deported from US to Eswatini goes on hunger strike in prison | Eswatini

A Cuban man deported by the Trump administration to the southern African country of Eswatini has started a hunger strike against his detention there,...

Anti-malaria funding cuts could lead to ‘deadliest resurgence ever’, study warns | Global health

Slashed contributions from wealthy countries to an anti-malaria fund could allow a resurgence of the disease, costing millions of lives and billions of pounds...

Tensions mount as Alassane Ouattara seeks fourth term in Ivory Coast vote | Ivory Coast

“This is worth several more terms,” the Ivorian president, Alassane Ouattara, joked while opening a bridge named after him in the country’s commercial capital,...

Four dead as Kenyan security forces fire on crowds mourning Raila Odinga | Kenya

Four people have been killed in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, after security forces fired shots and teargas to disperse huge crowds at a stadium where...

Agnes Wanjiru’s niece urges Labour to extradite ex-soldier while still in power | Kenya

The niece of Agnes Wanjiru, who was killed in Kenya, said she hopes the former British soldier charged with her aunt’s murder will be...

African Union suspends Madagascar as military leader set to be sworn in as president | Madagascar

Madagascar’s new military ruler will be sworn in as the country’s president on Friday, the military said on Wednesday, as the African Union suspended...

Raila Odinga, towering Kenyan opposition figure, dies aged 80 | Kenya

The veteran Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, who ran five times for the presidency and had a profound influence on the country’s politics, has...

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