Africa

• BBC News2026-10-14✓ Read

  Bolt comparisons a 'privilege' - Dambile

  South African sprinter Sinesipho Dambile says comparisons with Usain Bolt are a “privilege” as he targets World Championship and Olympic glory after a breakout season.

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• Africa | The Guardian2026-10-14✓ Read

  What is state capture and why does it matter?

  Different forms are distinguished by who exercises control and which institutions they target

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• Africa | The Guardian2026-10-14✓ Read

  How Europe’s most wanted cocaine trafficker turned Sierra Leone into the world’s first true narco state

  Drawing on dozens of interviews with intelligence and police officers across two continents, a Guardian investigation reveals the murderous cost of our insatiable appetite for cocaine

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• NYT > World > Africa2026-10-14✓ Read

  From Allies to Enemies: Ethiopia and Eritrea Edge Toward War

  The two nations fought alongside each other during a brutal conflict in Tigray that left hundreds of thousands of people dead just a few years ago. Now they are on the brink of fighting each other.

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• BBC News2026-10-13✓ Read

  Zimbabwean author denies using AI to write award-winning story

  Simbarashe Kundizeza was responding to an accusation that has caused an uproar on social media.

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• Middle East & Africa2026-10-13✓ Read

  Middle East Dispatch: Flying through the Gulf is complicated

  Gregg Carlstrom, our Middle East correspondent, looks at how war has affected aviation in the region

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• Middle East & Africa2026-10-13✓ Read

  Analysing Africa newsletter: A Nobel and ignoble day for the rule of law

  Friday in South Africa brought a gobsmacking juxtaposition, writes John McDermott, our Chief Africa correspondent

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• BBC News2026-10-13✓ Read

  A 'landmark' moment - why has Rwanda been chosen to host F1?

  How Rwanda has succeeded where Morocco and South Africa, among others, have failed by agreeing a deal to stage the African Grand Prix.

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• BBC News2026-10-13✓ Read

  Rusty or something more? South Africa's concern after Australia loss

  Australia complete 214-run victory over South Africa in Durban. What does heavy defeat mean for the world champions?

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• BBC News2026-10-13✓ Read

  Rwanda to host F1's first race in Africa since 1993

  Rwanda signs a 10-year deal with Formula 1 to host races in the African country, starting "in the early 2030s".

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• Africa | The Guardian2026-10-13✓ Read

  I was kidnapped and held hostage for 977 days. Could I forgive my captors?

  The long read: At first the idea of mercy was something that helped me through the ordeal. But would real forgiveness be a form of Stockholm syndrome?

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• NYT > World > Africa2026-10-12✓ Read

  Dozens Killed in Airstrikes Near Sudan-Egypt Border

  The attacks occurred at a remote gold mine hundreds of miles from the front lines of Sudan’s devastating civil war. Videos showed what appeared to be Egyptian munitions.

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• Africa | The Guardian2026-10-12✓ Read

  Gabrielle Goliath: Elegy review – devastating lament is a furious, single-note call to action

  Ibraaz, London Too controversial for the Venice Biennale, this haunting video and audio work commemorates murders and genocides with an angry act of mourning The sound of mourning spills out into the streets. A single, endless wailing note echoes out of the basement of Ibraaz, a relatively new cultural centre in London’s Fitzrovia. This is Gabrielle Goliath’s heart-wrenching Elegy, each of its three films featuring a woman singing just one note until their lungs falter and another woman steps up to fill in for her.

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• NYT > World > Africa2026-10-12✓ Read

  He Helped Discover Ebola 50 Years Ago. He’s Still Worried

  In an interview, Dr. Peter Piot recalled when he first saw the spindly virus under a microscope and reflected on a five-decade career spent fighting two deadly pathogens.

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• BBC News2026-10-11✓ Read

  Mourners killed by Kenya police at ex-PM's national farewell not part of violence, BBC finds

  After analysing 1,500 videos and images of the Raila Odinga memorial, Africa Eye finds that those killed were far from the scuffles.

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• Middle East & Africa2026-10-11✓ Read

  Saudi Arabia is increasingly under siege

  The Saudis have no good options against deadly strikes by Yemeni rebels

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• NYT > World > Africa2026-10-11✓ Read

  Over 100 Migrants Are Dead After Boat Capsizes Near Djibouti

  The shipwreck is among the deadliest ever recorded on the route to Yemen, the International Organization for Migration said. Dozens remain missing, and the bodies of 15 children were recovered.

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• Africa | The Guardian2026-10-11✓ Read

  At least 139 dead including children after migrant boat capsizes off Djibouti

  More than 116 others still missing from vessel heading to Yemen with 305 people onboard, UN migration agency says

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• Africa | The Guardian2026-10-11✓ Read

  ‘I didn’t want to write about this’: the man who first saw chimps waging civil war

  John Mitani spent years studying a huge community of chimpanzees in Uganda. But then things took a dark turn – and his findings stunned the scientific world

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• BBC News2026-10-11✓ Read

  Kipchoge, 41, breaks course record at Melbourne Marathon

  Double Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge says "his body is still peaking" after winning the Melbourne Marathon in a course record time at the age of 41.

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