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What the rest of the world is publishing about the Horn of Africa — and what the Horn's own newsrooms are publishing about everywhere else.
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Commonwealth Games chef de mission Godwin Kayangwe says he hopes the athletes will return home before their visas expire in October.
More than 70 people died after thousands of migrants tried to cross from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta. The crossings have been linked to misleading claims about a recent Spanish Supreme Court ruling.
Rwandan cinema has never enjoyed such a spotlight. Last May at the Cannes Film Festival, Ben'Imana by Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo won the 'Caméra d'Or' – the first Rwandan feature film ever to do so. The achievement has lifted an entire…
UN forecasters warn of worsening conditions in 45 countries currently experiencing severe food insecurity About 50 million people are likely to be pushed into acute hunger before the end of next year by the rapidly developing El Niño…
The DR Congo is set to open its largest Ebola treatment facility. Construction is nearing completion as health authorities race to contain an outbreak that the World Health Organization has described as intensifying at an "exceptional"…
Photojournalist Olaoluwa Olowu is documenting the lives of women in Ghana who choose to fight I took this portrait of Elizabeth Boakye, an amateur boxer, in the Abossey Okai neighbourhood of Accra, Ghana, in May 2026. While photographing…
Cameroon's President Paul Biya reshuffled senior military staff, promoting the head of the Presidential Guard to a brigadier general and replacing commanders in four of the country's five joint military regions, according to three…
In today’s newsletter: The past week shows how quickly images, rumours and right-wing political opportunism can eclipse the facts on the ground Good morning. Last week, an estimated 72,000 migrants began crossing into a tiny Spanish…
Ghana's parliament passed a bill that could send cocoa farmers to prison for up to 20 years if they convert their farms to other uses without government approval. The new measure was passed on July 30, but the contents of the law were not…
People hope to see friends or relatives among those still returning as death toll from mass crossing nears 100 Hundreds of people have gathered in the northern Moroccan town of Fnideq, near the border with Spain’s Ceuta, flashing photos of…
A wave of Kenyan elephant deaths has been blamed on pesticides, but experts tell the BBC they are doubtful.
Cameroon’s 93-year-old president has not been seen for many weeks. The Guardian’s Eromo Egbejule and Giovanni Wanneh tell Annie Kelly how the country is managing without its leader, and why Cameroonians still have hope for the next chapter…
Chad le Clos reveals his apartment in South Africa was destroyed by a fatal fire in a "heartbreaking tragedy" - the night after he became the most decorated athlete in Commonwealth Games history.
In tonight's edition: Ghana's parliament cracks down on the sale or repurposing of land used to grow the country's most important crop, cocoa. Also, DR Congo is set to open its largest ever Ebola treatment facility. Plus a deeply moving…
Head coach Bubista leaves Cape Verde after reaching the last 32 at the World Cup while Ivory Coast reappoint two-time Afcon winner Herve Renard.
Camille Knight is pleased to welcome Derk Segaar, IFRC Special Envoy for Sudan. Sudan's humanitarian crisis has become one of the defining yet least visible crises of the twenty first century. Segaar argues that the conflict can no longer…