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British healthcare worker with Ebola evacuated from DR Congo to UK | Ebola

A British healthcare worker with Ebola is being evacuated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the UK for medical treatment, it has...

ANC faces anger over poor services as South Africans vote in local elections | South Africa

The African National Congress is on course for a bruising result in South Africa’s local elections on Wednesday as voters go to the polls...

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...

ActionAid to rethink child sponsorship as part of plan to ‘decolonise’ its work | Global development

Child sponsorship schemes that allow donors to handpick children to support in poor countries can carry racialised, paternalistic undertones and need to be transformed,...

Head of US Africa bureau urges staff to highlight US ‘generosity’ despite aid cuts | US foreign policy

US diplomats have been encouraged to “unabashedly and aggressively” remind African governments about the “generosity” of the American people, according to a leaked email...

‘Brazen’ political influence of rich laid bare as wealth of billionaires reaches $18.3tn, says Oxfam | Global development

The world saw a record number of billionaires created last year, with a collective wealth of $18.3tn (£13.7tn), while global efforts stalled in the...

Uganda’s president calls opponents ‘terrorists’ in victory speech | Uganda

Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, fresh from winning a seventh term in office at 81, said on Sunday that the opposition were “terrorists” who had...

Yoweri Museveni wins Ugandan election as opponent condemns ‘fake result’ | Uganda

Yoweri Museveni, has won the Ugandan election and his seventh term with more than 70% of the vote, state election authorities have said, amid...

Confidence runs high in London’s Little Morocco as Afcon glory beckons | London

London’s Little Morocco is brimming with pride and anticipation. The Moroccan diaspora in North Kensington is in no doubt that on Sunday the Atlas...

Ugandan opposition MP says security forces stormed home killing 10 people | Uganda

A senior member of the Ugandan opposition has said security forces stormed his house early on Friday morning and shot dead 10 members of...

Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled | Vaccines and immunisation

The controversial US-funded study on hepatitis B vaccines among newborns in Guinea-Bissau has been halted, according to Yap Boum, a senior official at the...

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