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Specialist Covid infection control scientist faces threat of deportation from UK

Published: 8:47 AM
‘Our biggest challenge? Lack of imagination’: the scientists turning the desert green

Published: 8:00 AM

Tanzania's first female leader urges unity after Covid sceptic Magufuli dies

Samia Suluhu Hassan faces task of healing east African country polarised during predecessor’s presidency

Published: 6:40 AM
Drowned land: hunger stalks South Sudan's flooded villages

Published: 6:00 AM
‘We choose good guys and bad guys’: beneath the myth of ‘model’ Rwanda

Published: 2:30 AM

Goodbye Cecil Rhodes: House renamed to lose link to British empire builder in Africa

London housing block residents choose location-led name, having rejected option to reflect black historical figures

Published: 3:09 PM
The age of extinction Reddit investors use GameStop proceeds to help protect gorillas

WallStreetBets members spend gains on donations for endangered animals also including elephants and turtles

Published: 9:34 AM
Tanzania's Covid-denying president, John Magufuli, dies aged 61

Leader’s death follows two-week absence from public life that prompted rumours he had virus

Published: 3:48 AM
‘We clap if none die’: Covid forces hard choices in Sierra Leone

With medical resources diverted to the pandemic, years of progress in children’s healthcare are under threat

Published: 3:15 AM

‘I woke up, he was gone’: Senegal suffers as young men risk all to reach Europe

As tourism plummets and fishing nets go empty, more are attempting the treacherous 1,000 mile journey to the Canaries

Published: 3:15 AM
Man who survived Ebola five years ago may be source of Guinea outbreak

Finding raises questions about virus’s ability to lurk long term in outwardly healthy bodies

Published: 3:00 AM

Motorcycle gunmen kill at least 58 civilians on market day in Niger

No claim of responsibility has been made, though Islamic State extremists are active where the attack took place

Published: 5:22 PM
Lesotho sacks hundreds of striking nurses as doctors warn of dire shortages

The African state was already struggling to cope with TB, HIV and Covid before latest response to demands for equal pay

Published: 10:49 AM
Isis-linked militants beheading children in Mozambique, says aid group

Islamist insurgents targeting victims as young as 11, according to Save the Children

Published: 7:24 AM
'We forget our troubles': crystal meth use rises during lockdown in Zimbabwe

Harare’s drug dealers say business is booming as more young people, some at school, use mutoriro

Published: 5:00 AM

Mali conflict: 'It's not about jihad or Islam, but justice'

Camps for refugees are growing as old rivalries between Fulani herders and Dogon farmers are exacerbated in Mali’s war on Islamist militants

Published: 8:08 AM
Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga review – prelude to violence

Tensions at a school for privileged girls in Rwanda foreshadow the 1994 genocide in this surprisingly bright, light-touch debut

Published: 5:00 AM

Fleeing Syrians lament the loss of their final refuge in Sudan

Visa-free access to the African state proved a lifeline during the war. Now the border is closed

Published: 6:00 AM

Ancient Christian ruins discovered in Egypt reveal 'nature of monastic life'

Archaeologists unearth monks’ cells and churches with biblical inscriptions dating back to fourth century AD

Published: 11:03 PM
4 out of 5 stars.

Witch Camp (Ghana): I've Forgotten Now Who I Used To Be review – magical sound of the marginalised
4 out of 5 stars.

(Six Degrees)
Sung in little-spoken Ghanaian dialects, these haunting, spontaneous songs by women accused of witchcraft are unlike anything you have ever heard

Published: 9:00 AM

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