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16 September 2024

  • Farmer Goyteom Tekele outside the warehouse of frankincense wholesaler Tesfaye Merasa in Abi Adi with his sacks of frankincense resin and bark

    The age of extinction
    How the west’s wellness industry is driving Ethiopia’s frankincense trees towards extinction

    As rich westerners fuel demand for the ancient fragrance, a lucrative race for the resin is killing the trees but leaving little of the trade’s profit for those gathering it

15 September 2024

  • Women in the Gambia with placard that reads: 'FGM/C is not a religious obligation'

    The Guardian view on tackling FGM: as progress slows, efforts must be redoubled

    Editorial: Survivors and other campaigners have done admirable work, but efforts to eradicate the practice by the end of the decade are way off target
  • South Africa's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, attends a media briefing at the Union Building in Pretoria

    South Africa school language law stirs Afrikaans learning debate

    The DA party argues Afrikaans education will be harmed, while the ANC says law is necessary to redress inequality
  • Michaela DePrince performs in Giselle at the Coliseumin London in 2017.

    Tamara Rojo: ‘Michaela Mabinty DePrince was an inspiration who transcended ballet’

    The former artistic director of English National Ballet recalls the joy of working with a ballerina who reached an audience far beyond dance

14 September 2024

  • People surround two passenger trains which collided in Egypt's Nile delta city of Zagazig.

    At least three dead as two passenger trains collide in Egypt’s Nile delta

    More than 40 others were injured in crash in the city of Zagazig, according to the country’s health ministry
  • Members of the Uganda People's Defence Force carry the casket of Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei

    Thousands attend funeral of runner Rebecca Cheptegei who was set on fire by partner

    Mourners in Uganda pay respects to Olympic athlete whose death prompted renewed calls for more protection for women in sport

    • A look at the career of ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince, who died aged 29 – video obituary

    • Michaela Mabinty DePrince: a life in pictures

    • Zimbabwe orders cull of 200 elephants amid food shortages from drought

13 September 2024

  • Woman dances in town

    Trailblazing ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince dies at 29

    Sierra Leone-born DePrince, who moved to US as a child, danced with Boston Ballet and performed with Beyoncé
  • The three men sit next to each other

    Briton and Americans among 37 given death sentence over DRC coup attempt

    Son of opposition figure who led botched attempt in May is among three Americans sentenced to death

    • ‘We cannot ignore Africa’: F1 fans on continent add to Lewis Hamilton’s call for grand prix

    • EU fears for its human rights credibility as Tunisia crushes dissent, leak shows

    • How to escape the ‘heroin hustle’: the project helping South African addicts

12 September 2024

  • Simone and her brother Ugo

    That’s me, Mum! The Nigerian author who wrote a book about her children … and joined a publishing revolution

    Simone, 8, has Down’s syndrome. Unable to find stories that reflected her modern African family, her mother decided to fill the gap, then publishers came knocking

11 September 2024

  • Mamadou Tangara

    Candidates to lead Commonwealth urge reparations for slavery and colonialism

    Three African contenders for role of secretary general call for financial measures or reparative justice

  • Dam collapse causes heavy flooding in northern Nigeria – video

    The floods have killed more than 80% of the animals in a large zoo that houses wildlife from lions and crocodiles to buffalo and ostriches

    • Scorched earth: how the search for gold has scarred DRC’s Haut-Uélé province

    • Rights and freedom
      Sudanese rebels appear to be posting self-incriminating videos of torture and arson on social media

    • Giant tortoises in Seychelles face threat from luxury hotel development

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