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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...

Sidi Ould Tah named African Development Bank president | Global development

The African Development Bank has chosen the Mauritanian economist Sidi Ould Tah as its president-elect after three rounds of voting on Thursday afternoon.The election...

South African woman sentenced to life for selling six-year-old daughter | South Africa

A South African woman and two accomplices were sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday for trafficking her then six-year-old daughter, in a case that...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87 | Ngugi wa Thiong’o

The Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who was censored, imprisoned and forced into exile by the dictator Daniel arap Moi, a perennial contender for...

Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, first Arab and African director to win Cannes Palme d’Or, dies aged 95 | Film

Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, the first Arab and African director to win the coveted Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival, has died aged 91, his...

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