The real reason Africa is up to its neck in debt
It’s not the IMF or even China but private banks that threaten developing country’s finances, lending at exorbitant rates
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Rwanda introduces partial travel ban to fight Marburg spread
Thirteen people have now died since the outbreak began last month – most of those infected have been health workers
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‘I trekked pregnant through the jungle to get paracetamol’
A lack of the most basic medical supplies is driving thousands of people towards Uganda’s fragile health system
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Tunisia’s Saied set to win landslide amid claims of political repression
Supporters celebrate the exit poll – but rights groups say the president has undone the gains of the Arab Spring
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Haile Selassie’s grandson buys Ethiopian shield from UK auction to return it to homeland
Descendent of last Ethiopian emperor’s purchase of stolen artefact comes amid ongoing reparation requests
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Marburg vaccines rushed to Rwanda to protect healthcare workers battling outbreak
The haemorrhagic fever has now killed 11 people in Rwanda, with at least 25 more patients still fighting for their lives in isolation units
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Boris Johnson: Chagos decision is total nonsense
Former PM says Starmer’s decision to hand islands back to Mauritius is ‘sheer political correctness’
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Major mpox vaccination drive set to begin as virus spreads in DRC capital
While experts stress this is not a ‘silver bullet’ to end the outbreak, the vaccination campaign cannot come soon enough
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Migrants fuel surge in HIV cases to 15-year high
Jump in positive diagnoses by over 50 per cent on previous year is largely driven by the number of people contracting the virus abroad
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‘People are hopeless here’: Sudan’s sick, starving and injured spill into camps across its borders
Twenty years on from the Darfur genocide, history is repeating itself in this region of east Africa
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Rwanda restricts funeral crowds and bans hospital visits to fight spread of Ebola-like virus
Marburg has already killed eight people in an outbreak among healthcare workers treating an infectious patient
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Rwanda Marburg virus: What is it, symptoms, causes and vaccines
The hemorrhagic fever is closely related to Ebola, but it was first discovered following a laboratory incident in Europe
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‘The ground was shaking, no one expected it’ – Sudan’s army launches dawn raid to recapture Khartoum
The assault marks the army’s largest Khartoum offensive so far against the RSF rebels
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The groundbreaking early warning system that could avert famines
Global initiative encompassing state-of-the-art satellite imagery and experimental meteorological data could protect against food insecurity
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Sudan launches major attack on Khartoum in war with rebels
Government in biggest offensive against RSF rebels since it lost control of the capital
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Europe can’t take half a billion migrants from Africa, warns Zahawi
Millions of people south of Libya are mobile and ready to travel north - posing a huge threat to the Western world, the former Tory MP says
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AI helps aid reach uncharted regions of the developing world
The technology has already been used to help seek out unvaccinated children living in communities that do not appear on maps
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Labour accused of double standards over Africa gas pipeline
Government considering £870m taxpayer investment in Mozambique project despite banning new domestic fossil fuel licences
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Watch: Hundreds of migrants storm Spanish border from Morocco
The large-scale attempted crossing was organised on social media and described as ‘The Promised Day’ and the ‘Great Escape’
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Hardman who may be Uganda’s next president is Putin fan and asked Meloni to marry him
West fears it will soon have to deal with yet another autocrat in erratic Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the ageing African leader’s son
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UAE using Wagner fighters to smuggle weapons into Sudan
Rebel fighters in CAR say they have captured Wagner mercenaries escorting consignments of weapons bound for militiamen in Sudan
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British plumber among 37 people sentenced to death over Congo coup plot
Youssouf Ezangi to be executed alongside five other foreigners after military tribunal in Kinshasa
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More than 100 people die from mpox in one week as outbreak spirals across Africa
The most recent fatalities account for almost 15 per cent of all deaths reported this year
