Egypt’s president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, has moved one step closer to staying in power until 2034 after parliament advanced a bill that changes the constitution by extending presidential terms and allows Sisi to run for re-election beyond the current...
Nairobi’s traffic congestion is notorious. Minibuses known as matatus battle for space with cars, motorbikes and hand-drawn carts, causing excruciating gridlock. Through this automotive battleground dart the daring members of the Kenyan city’s inlin...
Once every other month, journalist Hassan Dahir, 28, leaves his hostel in central Mogadishu under the cover of darkness to visit his mother in Yaqshid district, north-east of the capital. He will spend the night with her and return to his rented roo...
People who move to Uganda from the west say it’s like enjoying an endless summer. The east African country, one of the biggest beer consumers in the world, always has an excuse to party and bars are open 24/7. In fact, there is a four-day dance fest...
The Cameroonian opposition leader who claims he won last year’s election has been arrested. Police arrested Maurice Kamto on Monday along with several other opposition figures, including one who was pulled out of his hospital bed where he was recove...
Sicilian authorities have made a series of arrests after a suspected sex trafficking ring was believed to have forced at least 15 Nigerian girls into prostitution in Italy. Among those arrested were two Nigerian women, Rita Ihama, 38, and Monica Ona...
A fisherman in Robertsport checks his nets. Depending on the size, they usually cost between $150 (£113) and $1,500. The fishermen paddle, or raise sails in small wooden canoes, travelling alone for hours, or they go out in groups of up to 25 men,...
A British peer is to table questions in parliament on the secretive practice of “breast-ironing”, after the Guardian revealed that the abusive intervention is spreading in the UK. Alex Carlile, one of the UK’s leading QCs who is a former deputy high...
Two people have died in a new cholera outbreak in the overcrowded slums of Uganda’s capital, Kampala. The ministry of health confirmed at the weekend that there were 43 suspected cases of cholera in the city and that two people had died. It said an...
The Royal College of Paediatrics has been accused of breaching World Health Organization guidance after it accepted sponsorship funding from baby formula companies. More than 100 medics and 13 health groups have written to the Royal College of Paedi...
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Police and military have launched a massive crackdown in Zimbabwe amid what appears to be a widespread breakdown of public order linked to food and fuel shortages in the impoverished country. Access to the internet and social media remained shut off...
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Kenya’s president has said security forces have killed all four militants who stormed a hotel and office complex in Nairobi, confirming earlier reports that 14 civilians had died. Uhuru Kenyatta said early on Wednesday that operations at the dusitD...
A South African inquest into the killing of the prominent Rwandan dissident Patrick Karegeya has opened in the suburbs of Johannesburg with a lawyer telling the court the former intelligence chief’s death was a political assassination. “We are deali...