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Africa

October 2026

  • Valentine Benjamin Mangrove Restoration 11
Valentine_Benjamin_Mangrove Restoration 11: Martha Agbani, middle, poses for a photo with some of the women planters she has trained on mangrove restoration in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta Photograph: Valentine Benjamin

    One green shoot at a time: the women restoring mangrove forests in the oil-ravaged Niger delta

    In a region of Nigeria blighted by decades of pollution, Martha Agbani and her team are not just replanting trees but regaining ownership of their lost lands and livelihoods
  • Alan Ferguson, sporting a moustache and wearing a checked shirt, pictured outdoors in soft sunlight

    Other lives
    Alan Ferguson obituary

    Other lives: Academic who became an aid agency worker in Kenya after lecturing at Nairobi University
  • Still from Kikya Land in which three people with baskets on their backs, carrying tea leaves walk across a huge plantation

    ‘They raped our country’: documentary follows Kenyans’ fight for restitution over stolen land

    Multinational tea companies still occupy ancestral highlands of communities displaced during British colonial era
  • Afrikaner refugees hold small American flags on arrival, a woman carrying a toddler in yellow

    Trump administration diverts human rights funds to push far-right agenda abroad

  • A student holds a glowing candle at a vigil, wearing a "We Say Enough" shirt

    South African leader urges men to speak up on gender-based violence after series of killings

  • ‘Shooting the breeze’ … long distance conversations aid decompression.

    The Long Wave
    Who’s your Uber driver on the phone to? Welcome to the long, long diaspora phone call

    Newsletter
  • officers in black uniforms stand in a row on tarmac in front of cars as a plane marked 'eastern' with an american flag logo  behind them

    Burundi agrees to receive ‘third-country’ migrant deportees from US

  • Cotton Queen review – mystery, matriarchs and magic in pioneering Sudanese debut

  • The secret Trump deals sending migrants across the world - Full Story podcast

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  • Economic growth and democratic decline: the ‘cotton king’ who reshaped Benin

  • Billboards show Morocco's footballers and the Grand Stade Hassan, as a man leads a donkey past

    The Guardian view on Morocco’s election: hosting a World Cup will not placate a disillusioned generation

  • A black man and a black woman holding a framed portrait of a young man with albinism

    Murdered for their eyes: people with albinism living in terror in Madagascar

  • A medic in a yellow protective suit being sprayed with disinfectant at a health facility, with medical supplies visible in the foreground

    DRC politician beaten to death after radio appearance about Ebola outbreak

    Marie-Celestin Karondwa was attacked on Sunday after promoting measures to prevent spread of disease, his party says
  • Rabbiatu Kuyateh spent most of her life in the US, after her parents fled Sierra Leone.

    Today in Focus
    Banished: the secret Trump deals sending migrants across the world - podcast

    Podcast30:48
  • People stand in the street near an area cordoned off by police.

    At least 27 dead after two mass shootings in South Africa, police say

  • Two baboons raid food out of bags next to a car on a house driveway on which more baboons are sitting.

    The age of extinction
    ‘It’s hard to sell a house when it’s covered in baboon faeces’: Cape Town divided over plan to remove its monkeys

  • David Harewood

    double quotation markI have seen with pride how British overseas aid saves children’s lives. That is why I say cuts should be reversed

    David Harewood
  • A man in a graduate gown and hat stands facing away from us in front of a slum

    ‘Africa hasn’t decolonised education enough’: how world’s youngest continent can unlock potential

    Dr John Nkengasong, a former WHO adviser who worked with Biden administration on Aids policy, says innovation and investment are key to unlocking potential of continent’s graduates
  • Tigrayan rebels walk along a main road in Mekelle

    Rebel offensive against Ethiopian army stokes fears of return to civil war

  • Displaced community members close to the town of Kalemie. 
Kalemie, Tanganyika Province, 4th September 2026.
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

    ‘We fled with nothing’: the people making perilous journeys to escape violence in DRC

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