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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...

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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