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26 January 2025

  • a composite showing two men making fascist salutes

    How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa

  • Aerial photo of the Saudi Teaching Maternal hospital (centre) in El Fasher.

    Scores killed in hospital attack in Sudan’s besieged El Fasher, says WHO

25 January 2025

  • Two airplanes, with hills in background

    At least six people seriously injured on flight from Nigeria to Washington DC

    Nigerian officials say a Boeing 787-800 belonging to United Airlines was forced to make an emergency return last Friday
  • A UN armoured personnel carrier on fire outside Goma on Saturday.

    Rwandan army ‘ready to invade DRC’ and help rebels seize city

    Intelligence sources suggest battle for Congolese regional capital Goma is imminent before UN crisis talks on Sunday
  • A girl in a vest top and skirt walks through a doorway away from the camera. Around the door are posters about maternal health.

    Opinion
    Sierra Leone is on the brink of legalising abortion. We must not allow the US far right to infiltrate and stop us

    Dr Ramatu Bangura
    Religious extremists from the US are bolstering local opposition by pouring money and messaging into the country under the guise of supporting ‘family values’

24 January 2025

  • Refugees ride on a truck with their belongings after leaving the Nzulo internally displaced persons camp and heading for Bulengo, Goma.

    Military chief killed as M23 rebels close in on Goma in eastern DRC

    Maj Gen Peter Cirimwami Nkuba shot near frontline as advance causes panic among civilian population
  • Red placard saying 'Trump: climate disaster' with his picture on it, with building behind

    How the world has responded to Trump’s Paris climate agreement withdrawal

    From Europe to Africa and South America, countries reaffirm commitment to tackle crisis
  • A group of people on stony ground by the sea, many of whom are in distress

    Europe overhauls funding to Tunisia after Guardian exposes migrant abuse

    Allegations of rape, beatings and collusion by EU-funded security forces prompt shift in migration arrangements

23 January 2025

  • Protesters in Rome denounce a government's decision to release and repatriate war crimes suspect Njeem Osama Elmasry, the head of the Libyan judicial police.

    Italy says Libya war crimes suspect was sent home due to ‘social dangerousness’

    General Osama Najim was released on a technicality and repatriated by Italy without any prior consultation, says international criminal court
  • Sparrow Mkonto, Sicelo Mhlauli, Fort Calata and Matthew Goniwe.

    ‘We were betrayed’: families of apartheid victims sue South African government

    High court case demands inquiry into 1985 Cradock Four killings and ‘constitutional damages’ worth £7.3m

    • Family of jailed dissident urge Lammy to prioritise case as he visits Egypt

    • The long read
      Innit innit boys and Super Eagles: how Nigerian Londoners found their identity through football

    • The age of extinction
      ‘Awe-inspiring and harrowing’: how two orcas with a taste for liver decimated the great white shark capital of the world

22 January 2025

  • Gen Osama Najim

    Meloni faces questions after Italy frees Libyan general accused of war crimes

    Case of Osama Najim puts spotlight on controversial migration pact between Italy and Libya
  • Man in traditional dress among memorial posts

    Families’ relief as memorial unveiled to first world war black South African dead

    Commonwealth War Graves Commission begins project to honour those who, unlike white counterparts, were never commemorated
  • A painting showing men in 18th century clothing gathered around talking

    Lloyd’s Register apologises for its role in trafficking enslaved people from Africa

    The maritime group, founded in 1760 by merchants and underwriters, issued the apology after commissioning research into its links to slavery

21 January 2025

  • Man in military beret

    Libyan general released after arrest in Turin on ICC warrant for alleged war crimes

    Osama Najim was arrested amid claims he used detained migrants in ‘a form of slavery’, but then freed after a mistake by prosecutors

20 January 2025

  • An image purported to be of Tiger (James Neo Tshoaeli) who was arrested in after rescue operation in which 78 bodies were brought out of an illegal gold mine.

    South African police launch hunt for alleged illegal mining ‘kingpin’

  • Silhouette of a man looking away from the camera over a wall towards a dilapidated building

    ‘It was almost a relief when someone died’: former prisoners on the torture and terror of Eritrea’s secret prisons

18 January 2025

  • Scores killed in central Nigeria after fuel tanker flips over and explodes – video

    Those who died had scrambled to take the fuel, which has rocketed in price amid an economic crisis
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