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Africans of the Year: Elly Savatia
Africans of the Year: The men from Botswana who rewrote Africa’s track record
Africans of the Year: Laura Wolvaardt
Africans of the Year: The people who pay the price of resistance
Africans of the Year: Mariam Issoufou
The Zimbabwean aligning modern drugs with African genes
Africans of the Year: Sara Elhassan
Africans of the Year: Zohran Kwame Mamdani
From rock bottom we can only go up
Slow love in a cut-throat world
Airplane mode for scattered souls
Legal ruling buys BBC time to find its smoking gun
Chakwera in dog house for clinging to bow-wower
Danai Gurira’s Zim baby comes of age
Maragoli Hills: Beautiful and brutal
Our leaders must shape up or be shipped out
Wounds in my body, scars in my heart
Call marital rape what it is, say scholars
M23 sends its torture mayor to the naughty step
T-Pain finally throws muscle at cascading kidnap crisis
Guinea-Bissau army head elbows in
Lesotho and the broken borders of empire
Review: Womanhood, in all its glory and shade
Be kind, unwind: VHS tapes are weaving magic
We’re in a brave new world – even if our leaders are not
Photo essay: Resounding victory
NGO accused of mismanaging Chad’s oldest national park
The cedi is back in business! (Do not ask why and do not say how)
Hope percolates despite fossil foolishness
Top general executed in Islamic State catch-and-kill
The kids are not all right: Inside Nigeria’s security crisis
Photo Essay: Passage to Agadez
Unserious men for serious times
From Mama Samia to the mad king
The five stages of climate grief
Sisi gambles his game of thrones on loaded dice
Rocks, rage rain on Hichilema’s surprise parade
Job Sikhala arrested, then freed on bail in South Africa
Bamako is grinding towards a halt
Review: Marvels, mental mayhem, and meaning
Global loan sharks just love our hungry, hungry hippos
Photo Essay: The museum of unstolen history
The cracks are showing in Egypt’s latest pyramid scheme
The sinister alchemy that puts lead into Zambian children’s veins
Judge eviscerates xenophobic vigilantes
Beneath Suluhu’s blackout, a blanket of violence
Review: A wise child knows its father
On taxes and our vampire states
As gold prices soar, Uganda's artisanal miners get edged out
Photo essay: The wind in their sails: fun, games, and heritage
Rival Chadian parties refuse to play rigged game
Water, water everywhere but not a bite to eat
Democracy is under fire in Harare, literally
Hundreds reportedly killed in post-polls violence
Sudan’s split in two (again) is now more concrete
‘Trade not aid’ isn’t a panacea
Review: What gets lost along the way
Five years later, fisherfolk are waiting on justice for oil spill
Moroccan youth protesters stay on the streets
The Belgian prince, the national park, and the bitcoin mine
Green pastures abroad, golden passports at home
Protesting in a city that can’t breathe
Teargas at rally five years after Lekki massacre
Inside the fragile first week of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire
The ‘Palestinian Mandela’ remains in an Israeli prison
M23 rebels are issuing their own ‘AFC-M23’ passports now
Biya may have to jail another opponent soon
Military wins, Rajoelina flees
Raila Odinga, 7 January 1945 – 15 October 2025
Employment is resistance in Gaza
Review: Victims of a terrorist insurgency talk back
The dark side of the sparkling stones
Gukurahundi’s horrors obscured by ‘dignity’
Zimbabwe's lithium boom uproots locals
The Djiboutian massacre Ethiopia won’t acknowledge
Trump’s deportation diplomacy triggers domestic headaches
World champs: When it pours, the pula reigns
Battle royale: How Egypt’s anti-terror traps are dooming teen gamers
Universality comes at too high a price
Ethiopia: The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Egypt: The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Debate: The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Vanishing returns: Sudan’s ‘disappearing’ crisis
The meteoric rise in ‘space stone’ smuggling
The Déby presidential level-ups just keep on coming
A more orderly aid exit, but an exit all the same
Wizard assassin case pits beliefs against the law
Sudan’s landslide tragedy is more than just a natural disaster
Review: We’re still doing this, are we?
The Museum of Memory: Part VIII
Photo essay: Run rings around M23
All at sea but for common cause and a few rupees
Bootstraps and shoestrings: How Africa has to beat the heat
Africa’s crude paradox: Too much oil, and also not enough
Hoping for different results from the usual suspects
Jewel of denial: Botswana’s diamond dilemma
The Museum of Memory: Part VII
Meet Nigeria’s human flycatchers
They fled to the mountain. Then the mountain collapsed.
I hold my phone in one hand and my heart in the other
The world’s greatest killer of journalists
Review: Sins, sons, synecdoche and survival
Pamoja! Does ’24 Chan favour the brave?
Some food for thought, and little else
Africa soaks up the sun as solar energy surges
Pay up or starve: RSF monetises its hunger siege
Kenya: Shakahola cult horror reawakens
The dangerous business of keeping Burundi moving
Review: Water, water everywhere, and no one cares to think
The fading forests of sensual ylang-ylang
Mosi-oa-Tunya: A leap of broken faith
Cash injections bolster clinical interventions
Rights lawyers challenge odious US deportation scheme in court
Baraka and the Unpredictable Life of Goma
Review: How do you survive Lagos?
Cash in or ash out? Scarcity is the nail in Mzansi’s coffins
UK skips probe into its soldiers’ grievous crimes
Growin’, growin’ like a baobab tree
Boys to men: Bloodless cuts and ancient wisdom
Sudan: Us vs them – in the bad way
Sudan: Us vs them – in a good way
How the RSF looted the capital
Foreign interests drive local dynamics
Is the Sudan war really ‘about nothing’?
Review: Society, sisterhood and self
The Museum of Memory: Part III
Nigeria’s never-complete highway has barely begun
‘Heretical’ Shia shed disfavour as winds of war shift prejudices
Feminist activist flees after cyber harassment
Cecil 2.0: Another research lion killed by trophy tourists
Zambia’s gold rush: A lucky strike turns lethal
Review: Shades of diminishing returns
Photo essay: Country & Eastern
Cobalt gambit tests Kinshasa’s mettle
Dadaab’s youth turn to drugs amid despair and stagnation
Brass tacks beats boss tax in Africa’s quest for equality
Angola petrol price protests turn deadly again
Even for the Oppenheimers, money can’t buy love – or power
Review: To live, to die and to tell
Fête de la Musique goes global
Dear Leader, and the grand gestures of religion
Student harassment signals regional disdain for civic freedom
Tunisia's bumper harvest at risk of rot
Mondlane faces terrorism rap as Chapo goes back on his word
Tigray’s plundered gold is being laundered through the UAE
Hustle up high or dance on the downlow?
Desert distortion: the modern shape of Amazigh music
Mayfair, where peace is woven of people, place and purpose
Child abductions raise alarm in Cabo Delgado
Sexual violence added to brutal crackdown on Nairobi dissent
How to fund African development – and how not to
Review: Madam President to the rescue
Photo Essay: Life in art, art in refuge
‘Once-in-a-generation’ HIV drug has been approved
Belgium could start a Lumumba trial next year
Protests force Kenyan top cop out as cover-up fails
Unmasked: The man trafficking Zambian women to Pakistan
In army’s absence, traditional hunters provide might and magic
You should be watching African women play basketball
Lagos, unbound tempest beneath your feet
Uganda (officially) moves its troops into Congolese towns
Civilian convoy in overland bid to break past Israel blockade
State security is terrorising citizens at record levels across East Africa
Napata, new home in ancient lands
Grand Theft Aqua: Spoiling the sea, ruining lives
Doctors on strike, Ethiopian government on the attack
Sudan aid convoy hit in deadly strike
Trump tax will cost some African senders 10% of remittance
Catastrophic rains in Mokwa send hundreds to their death
This Eid, Algeria is short on sheep to share
Sharangabo learns to bet on himself
A 24-hour rave to build Uganda’s first contemporary art centre
Farewell Adesina, hello Ould Tah
President’s nemesis carted off to prison after calling out military abductions
Lilongwe, and how we hold the space we make
Zuneth Sattar hit with ‘state capture’ charges
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, 1938 - 2025
Welcome to the Bissau Biennale
Zimbabwe’s ruling party recruited people to vote – in Mozambique’s election
Review: Fifth time’s the charm
Goïta’s silencing of political voices strains Mali’s limits
Militants launch desperate raids on Cabo Delgado
Seizing is easy, ruling is harder
The strange sadness of Algiers
Out of Egypt: Art flows where the money goes
Review: These lives that got away
Photo Essay: The wild migration
Powerless in the ‘Power State’
Don’t go putting our ants in your pants
Review: A scattered search for self
The future of African democracy now depends on local pockets and leaders
Photo Essay: Lenses on Africa, global renown
Mahama’s gold rush is fast and furious
Opposition figures cast doubt on US peace effort
Kenya: Gen Z protest film draws fire and eyes
It was a fairytale fantasy of wildlife and people – until the killing began
The road to Lagos’ climate-friendly future has potholes
Maputo’s hot heads begin to cool
Islamic State kill scores in Lake Chad attacks
Navigating the new world order
Photo Essay: Old Lagos, new light
Khartoum: More than just another sad story
Peace talks remain the only way out of Sudan’s nightmare
Lights, camera and a little too much action
The same two old men beat the same old war drums
Wanted: One (1) big oil boom – just not like this
Peace talks were dead on arrival (again)
Africa’s busiest airport has a drug problem
The Berlinale is getting it right
The Museum of Stolen History: Part VIII
We can’t just sit around and wait for debt relief
The Sahel juntas are taking on foreign mining companies – and winning
SADC slinks off as threat of peace rises
Yeelen, the light that endures
Occupation tests Bukavu’s century-long resilience
The Museum of Stolen History: Part VII
‘I would be happy to die on that stage’
Children killed in attack on Mondlane
Review: Dying to live, living to love
Taboo artists: The fading of Egypt’s healing ink
The Museum of Stolen History: Part VI
The African Union can thrive in the new world order
Zimbabwe: Crocodile’s tears are a bit on the nose
US: Tyranny by the book, ‘til the book is burned
‘We prepared for a natural disaster – just not this one’
Review: Downward spiral of the vicious circle
The Museum of Stolen History: Part V
Selling tomatoes in a war zone
Zelenskyy to get South African state visit
Rwanda: You can’t dump me if I dump you first
Sudan: A poisoned palace in a violent stalemate
Review: Speculation spans chapter and multiverse
The Museum of Stolen History: Part IV
The cost of Trump’s executive disorder is measured in lives
Mass graves highlight the hidden danger migrants face in the desert
Mining is pivoting to ‘critical minerals’ like cobalt, lithium... and coal?
The African Union’s moment of truth
Photo Essay: On the vaccine frontline in Nigeria
Church, state and dying children
Review: Africa at Sundance: libraries, war, and road trips
The Museum of Stolen History: Part III
Trafigura executive found guilty
Trump takes aim at the Rainbow Nation
The eastern DRC war could reshape the region
'How I was fooled by 400-year-old fake news'
Review: Wizkid’s on cruise control
Play it again: Vinyl is making a comeback in Nigeria
The Museum of Stolen History: Part I
The Museum of Stolen History: Part II
Momentum remains with Mondlane
Trump signs a piece of paper – and a vital Johannesburg clinic shuts its doors
Goma’s war-displaced people turn to locals for aid
Review: An overdue, anxious and complicated homecoming
Raising spirits at Benin’s Vodún festival
The big US aid freeze: Who loses?
Peace is up to rival factions’ cheerleaders