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A community clinic just north of Johannesburg has become the frontline of a battle in South Africa over whether foreigners can access public health facilities. What started as a small local action in one area in 2022 has spread, with activists from the avowedly anti-migrant group, Operation Dudula, picketing some hospitals and clinics in Gauteng […]

In October 1945, delegates from across the world descended on a town hall on the outskirts of Manchester city centre to attend a seismic event in African politics, the ripple effects of which still resonate 80 years later. The Fifth Pan-African Congress, held between 15 and 21 October 1945, was a key moment for the […]

Former Kenyan prime minister and revered long-time opposition leader Raila Odinga was buried in the west of the country after a service attended by thousands on Sunday. “Now finally Baba is home,” his son, Raila Odinga junior, said beside his father’s casket, draped in the Kenyan flag. The burial concluded days of memorials that at […]

Seychelles’ president-elect says that once sworn in, he will halt the construction of a controversial Qatari-funded luxury resort on an environmentally sensitive island. Speaking to the BBC, Patrick Herminie, who will come to power in the Indian Ocean nation on 26 October, said his country had “got peanuts in that contract” and added that the […]

ANGELA WEISS / AFP / GETTY IMAGES Ethiopian model Awar Odhiang takes to the catwalk in celestial headgear in the US on Wednesday. TONY KARUMBA / AFP / GETTY IMAGES Upcycled fashion is the star of this event on Saturday in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi… TONY KARUMBA / AFP / GETTY IMAGES Morgan Azedy […]

Thousands of mourners have gathered at a national stadium in the Kenyan capital for the state funeral of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Many carried national flags, portraits of the late leader, and wore T-shirts printed with his image to pay their final respects. Security remains tight in and around the stadium, with police and […]

Toting sub-machine guns and sometimes wearing masks as they drive along the streets of Uganda, members of an elite military unit are increasingly viewed as a private army to keep 81-year-old President Yoweri Museveni in power – along with his ever-growing family dynasty. Museveni has led Uganda since 1986, when his rebel forces marched into […]

Satellite images show how Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is flouting international law by intentionally targeting civilians in the besieged city of el-Fasher – actions that should be considered war crimes, a research team from Yale University says. “We’re looking at the growth of an entire new burial area with over 60 new mounds […]

People have gathered in Nairobi to mourn the death of former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga. The 80-year-old passed away while receiving medical treatment at a hospital in India.

If you’d have asked about Col Michael Randrianirina on the island of Madagascar before last weekend, you’d have got a lot of blank looks. In just three days, however, he has become arguably the most powerful person in country. Randrianirina’s sudden ascent began on Saturday, when as the head of Madagascar’s elite CAPSAT army unit, […]