Africa
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Samia Suluhu Hassan faces task of healing east African country polarised during predecessor’s presidency
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London housing block residents choose location-led name, having rejected option to reflect black historical figures
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WallStreetBets members spend gains on donations for endangered animals also including elephants and turtles
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Leader’s death follows two-week absence from public life that prompted rumours he had virus
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With medical resources diverted to the pandemic, years of progress in children’s healthcare are under threat
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As tourism plummets and fishing nets go empty, more are attempting the treacherous 1,000 mile journey to the Canaries
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Finding raises questions about virus’s ability to lurk long term in outwardly healthy bodies
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No claim of responsibility has been made, though Islamic State extremists are active where the attack took place
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The African state was already struggling to cope with TB, HIV and Covid before latest response to demands for equal pay
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Islamist insurgents targeting victims as young as 11, according to Save the Children
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Harare’s drug dealers say business is booming as more young people, some at school, use mutoriro
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Camps for refugees are growing as old rivalries between Fulani herders and Dogon farmers are exacerbated in Mali’s war on Islamist militants
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Tensions at a school for privileged girls in Rwanda foreshadow the 1994 genocide in this surprisingly bright, light-touch debut
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Visa-free access to the African state proved a lifeline during the war. Now the border is closed
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Archaeologists unearth monks’ cells and churches with biblical inscriptions dating back to fourth century AD
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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
‘Our biggest challenge? Lack of imagination’: the scientists turning the desert green