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Central African Republic is facing serious food shortages as election violence has cut off the country and stranded hundreds of trucks carrying supplies outside its borders. Food prices have

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Jonas Gwangwa, South African jazz musician and activist, dies aged 83

January 25, 2021

Jonas Gwangwa, the Oscar-nominated South African jazz musician who campaigned against apartheid for decades, has died aged 83. The cause of death has not been announced. South African president

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Ugandan court rules Bobi Wine house arrest illegal

January 25, 2021

A Ugandan judge has ruled that security forces cannot detain the presidential challenger Bobi Wine inside his home, rebuking authorities for holding the candidate under house arrest after a

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How the Arab spring unfolded – visualising how the protests spread

January 25, 2021

A decade ago this month, protests forced Tunisia’s authoritarian president, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, to flee his country. It was a quick and relatively peaceful revolution, coming after decades

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‘The lockdown was political’: Chad under strain ahead of election

January 25, 2021

For Abdulgadir Sanousi the decision to lock down the capital of Chad was “a nightmare”. His work driving from N’Djamena to Moundou in the south four times a week dried up overnight. This month

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‘The release of six decades of fear’: Egypt’s lost revolution

January 24, 2021

In the centre of the place where it all began, Mansour Mohammed manned a tarpaulin-covered stall on the only green grass among miles of concrete and asphalt. For 10 days he ate and slept huddled

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Fabled ark could be among ancient treasures in danger in Ethiopia’s deadly war

January 24, 2021

It has been hidden from view for thousands of years, and its whereabouts never proved. But if the Ark of the Covenant indeed rests in a chapel in northern Ethiopia, this extraordinary religious

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Ethiopia’s leader must answer for the high cost of hidden war in Tigray

January 24, 2021

Seyoum Mesfin, Ethiopia’s long-serving former foreign minister, was one of the foremost African diplomats of his generation. He was gunned down this month in Tigray by the armed forces of a

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World’s poor need action, not Covid ‘vaccine nationalism’, say experts

January 22, 2021

Pharmaceutical companies should do more to transfer vaccine technology to prevent the poorest countries falling behind in the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, according to an expert. The