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Chinese pollution on Gambian coast

Residents from a coastal village in the Gambia are suing a Chinese-owned fishmeal plant accused of pollution, writes...

30 Apr 2018 1 minute read

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Introducing... Cyril Ramaphosa

Whatever his shortcomings, Ramaphosa is probably the last chance for the older generation of ANC leadership to make good on...

30 Apr 2018 2 minute read

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The politics of grazing in Cameroon

Farmers and cattle herders in West Cameroon are finding new ways to solve long-running conflicts over access to land and...

Liz McDaid and Makoma Lekalakaka in front of the country’s only nuclear power station – Koeberg.

23 Apr 2018 4 minute read

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The Women Who Stopped the Nuclear Deal

Makoma Lekalakala and Liz McDaid won the Goldman Environmental Prize for stopping a secret nuclear deal with Russia....

19 Apr 2018 6 minute read

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ECRF: Fighting for life and freedom in Egypt

Alessio Perrone meets the activists fighting to shine light on human rights abuses during Egypt’s dark days...

31 Mar 2018 1 minute read

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Introducing... Emmerson Mnangagwa

The record of Zimbabwe's new President is not re-assuring for Zimbabweans interested in human rights discovers ...

Alfred Kelfala, part of the roving Freetown Ebola burial team, puts on a safety suit before burying a corpse, 2015.

10 Apr 2018 8 minute read

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Did deforestation cause the Ebola outbreak?

How humanity may have triggered Ebola outbreaks. By Katie McQue.

The Turkana are a nomadic people, mainly based near Lake Turkana in north-west Kenya. Photo: Filiberto Strazzari, CC-BY-2.0

3 Apr 2018 4 minute read

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Two worlds collide

In East Africa, traditional lifestyles are bringing nomads into conflict with states, writes Maina Waruru....

31 Mar 2018 5 minute read

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How Turkey is winning hearts and minds in Somalia

Jamal Osman reports on the rise of the new humanitarians in Somalia.

31 Mar 2018 5 minute read

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The drugs don’t work

Lea Surugue reports on the dramatic rise of heart disease in Africa and the corresponding crisis of fake...

31 Mar 2018 3 minute read

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Country Profile: Libya

Almost any Libyan can tell you the story of a relative or friend imprisoned, tortured, exiled or simply disappeared. ...

2 Apr 2018 5 minute read

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Mozambique plantation leaves no land or jobs for villagers

Promised plantation jobs, five years later these Mozambicans are still waiting, discovers Nils Adler.

21 Mar 2018 6 minute read

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Tensions escalate in the new Gambia

Political rivalries have increasingly taken an ethnic hue in the West African country. James Courtright...

21 Mar 2018 5 minute read

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Five reflections on the death of Mame Mbaye

A migrant’s death provokes soul searching in Madrid. Sarah Babiker reports

F.A. Cole at Women Safe Institute, January 2018. Photo: Kyle G. Brown

8 Mar 2018 5 minute read

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Survivors and doctors fight back against FGM

Without proper care, the value of post-FGM reconstructive surgery can be limited. Kyle G. Brown reports.

1 Mar 2018 1 minute read

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Justice for Giulio Regeni

Two years since the murder of an Italian student in Cairo, the Egyptian regime has yet to acknowledge the nature of its...

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