Temperatures exceed 40 degrees in country where climate change has ‘amplified’ impact
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An Irish association is helping to treat and prevent a childbirth injury that is too common in Angola and ensure that women affected by it are no longer left behind
Ruling party and opposition joined forces on legislation which legalises discrimination and criminalises financing LGBTQ groups
Heavy gunfire heard in capital of N’Djamena near headquarters of opposition party after several killed in earlier clashes
Senegal has long been considered an example of stability in West Africa
After 30 years in power, the party of president Cyril Ramaphosa is in danger of losing this year’s general election in South Africa - a prospect that raises questions for the party and the region
President Macky Sall’s decision to postpone election by 10 months has been described as an ‘institutional coup’
Geingob, president of the southern African mining hotspot since 2015, was recently diagnosed with cancer
Bulk of funding to support developing countries in adapting to inevitable negative impacts from global warming
Eddie Ennis moved from Marino to South Africa aged 24 and voted in the 1992 referendum to end apartheid
Move is projected to save tens of thousands of live across Africa per year with some 6.6m children in line for jab
The award winning journalist joins a class of leaders including an Olympic swimmer, a glaciologist, politicians from various levels of government and green tech entrepreneurs
Extraordinary Emigrant: James Field Stanfield saw a ‘floating dungeon’ filled with ‘howlings of despair’ as part of a crew charged with taking more than 200 Africans to Jamaica. He quit
Number of Africans apprehended at the US southern border jumped to 58,462 in 2023 from 13,406 in 2022, according to data obtained by the New York Times
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