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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...

Ethiopia confirms outbreak of deadly Marburg virus | Ethiopia

Ethiopia has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the south of the country, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention...

UK warned that 15% cut to health fund will force ‘impossible choices’ on Africa | Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria

The UK is undermining its legacy in fighting infectious diseases including Aids and malaria by cutting money pledged to a leading global health fund,...

South Africa to investigate ‘mysterious’ arrival of 153 Palestinians on plane | South Africa

South Africa will investigate the “mysterious” arrival of scores of Palestinians who were kept on a charter plane at Johannesburg for 12 hours by...

British-Egyptian activist stopped from flying to UK, says family | Egypt

Alaa Abd el-Fattah, the British-Egyptian writer and human rights campaigner who was freed from jail in September, was stopped from flying to the UK...

State-sanctioned fuel smuggling cost Libya $20bn over three years – report | Libya

A surge in state-sanctioned fuel smuggling between 2022 and 2024 cost the Libyan people about $20bn (£15bn) in lost revenue – an alarming sum...

‘Utter hypocrisy’: tobacco firm lobbied against rules in Africa that are law in UK | Global development

British American Tobacco has been accused of “utter hypocrisy” for lobbying against tobacco control measures in Africa that are already in place in the...

French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal pardoned and to be released from prison | Algeria

French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal has been pardoned and is to be released from prison, the Algerian presidential office said in a statement on Wednesday.The...

The man on a mission to save Mauritania’s ‘city of libraries’ from encroaching desert sands | Mauritania

On a recent afternoon, 67-year-old Saif Islam made his way into the courtyard of a library in Chinguetti, a tiny desert settlement nestled in...

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