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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, […]

Warning: This piece contains details that some readers may find distressing Touma hasn’t eaten in days. She sits silently, her eyes glassy as she stares aimlessly across the hospital ward. In her arms, motionless and severely malnourished, lies her three-year-old daughter, Masajed. Touma seems numb to the cries of the other young children around her. […]

It was only when Stopira’s effort hit the net in the 91st minute that it finally felt real. In the crowd, an eruption of blue, red and white; on the touchline, players and staff embraced. Some wept as a plan many years in the making came to fruition. Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony of […]

An elite military unit says it has seized power in Madagascar from President Andry Rajoelina following weeks of youth-led protests in the Indian Ocean island. Standing outside the presidential palace on Tuesday, CAPSAT chief Col Michael Randrianirina said the military would form a government and hold elections within two years. He also suspended key democratic […]

Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has died at the age of 80, family sources have told the BBC. Odinga died on Wednesday while receiving medical treatment at a hospital in India. Indian police told the AFP news agency that he was walking with family members and a personal doctor “when he suddenly collapsed”. He […]