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Row erupts over Cairo mural depicting Tutankhamun and Nefertiti with dark skin
Artwork created in Tahrir Square for Chinese president’s state visit to Egypt is painted over amid allegations it revived Afrocentric claims about Pharaohs’ origins
One green shoot at a time: the women restoring mangrove forests in the oil-ravaged Niger delta
In a region of Nigeria blighted by decades of pollution, Martha Agbani and her team are not just replanting trees but regaining ownership of their lost lands and livelihoods
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Making politics 'fun, trendy, sexy': How Gen Z could shape Kenya's next election
A voter mobilisation campaign has registered huge numbers of young people but it is not clear who they are backing.
Alan Ferguson obituary
My brother, Alan Ferguson, who has died aged 79, was a Scotsman who began his working life as a geography lecturer at Nairobi University in Kenya, before working with aid agencies in that country. Alan joined the university in 1972, but left after a couple of years to teach in Britain at Cambridge University, and then in the US at NorthEastern University in Chicago. Continue reading
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Nigerian Charged With Running Fake Government Agency
The Nigerian secured office space in a federal building, opened bank accounts and even held meetings with foreign diplomats. He says he is innocent.
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A Flashy Zimbabwean Tycoon Who Befriended Presidents Dies in Crash
Wicknell Chivayo was riding in a helicopter with his wife when it plunged into a field. Dogged by corruption allegations, the businessman drew polarizing reactions even in death.
- Middle East & Africa Read
Jared Kushner has a $2.45bn recovery plan for Gaza
But the board of peace’s grand promises ring hollow in the strip
- Middle East & Africa Read
Nigerians dislike their president, but may re-elect him anyway
Political cynicism, a divided opposition and religion all play a role
- BBC News Read
Dangote: 'Nobody can make Africa great but us'
Africa's richest man says Africans should take the fate of their continent in their own hands, rather than relying on foreigners.
‘They raped our country’: documentary follows Kenyans’ fight for restitution over stolen land
Multinational tea companies still occupy ancestral highlands of communities displaced during British colonial era
- Middle East & Africa Read
How will AI philanthropy change development aid?
As Anthropic and its ilk join the donor class, they must avoid old pitfalls
South African leader urges men to speak up on gender-based violence after series of killings
President announces measures amid anger at authorities over recent murders of women South Africa’s president has called on men to take more responsibility for violence against women as he announced measures to tackle the problem, amid anger at authorities over a recent wave of murders. Cyril Ramaphosa acknowledged that not enough had been done to protect women.
Who’s your Uber driver on the phone to? Welcome to the long, long diaspora phone call
For those employed in arduous solitary work such as cab driving, a marathon phone call is the perfect place to navigate the dislocations of immigrant life
Burundi agrees to receive ‘third-country’ migrant deportees from US
Burundi joins several other African nations in accepting people deported under Trump’s hardline policy
Top Trump figures push to direct human rights funding to rightwing causes
Support such as for white Afrikaners and anti-communism reveals how US is redefining what qualifies as human rights
Cotton Queen review – mystery, matriarchs and magic in pioneering Sudanese debut
Suzannah Mirghani’s first feature contains a powerful performance by Rabha Mohamed Mahmoud as a village’s elder woman and tackles the long shadow of British imperialism and women’s rights
The secret Trump deals sending migrants across the world - Full Story podcast
A Sierra Leonean nurse detained, handcuffed and flown to Ghana. An Iranian dissident sent to Central African Republic. A Cameroonian deported to Equatorial Guinea.
Economic growth and democratic decline: the ‘cotton king’ who reshaped Benin
Patrice Talon has transformed the west African country’s economy and infrastructure at the expense of political freedom
- Middle East & Africa Read
Has Iran lost its grip on Gulf oil exports?
Exports through the Strait of Hormuz and beyond are soaring but prices remain stubbornly high
- NYT > World > Africa Read
Morocco’s King Names a Female Prime Minister, in a Historic First
Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, a lawyer and politician from the centrist Authenticity and Modernity Party, is only the second woman to lead the government of a North African country.
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