Britain slashes humanitarian aid by 51% despite global food crisis
Campaigners say ministers must change course as millions face famine in Africa and the Ukraine war threatens to disrupt global food supplies Ministers have been...
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Guinea junta allows former leader Alpha Conde to leave country
84-year-old who was ousted last year boards plane for Turkey to receive medical treatment Guinean ex-leader Alpha Conde boarded a plane for Turkey on Saturday...
Widow of man killed in Libya accuses South Africa of ‘silence’ in hunt for his body
The South African government sent Anton Hammerl’s passport to his widow in 2016 but has refused to say how it came to have it The...
Mozambique confirms first wild poliovirus case in 30 years
Case in child in Tete province follows detection of similar strain in Malawi in February, officials say Mozambique has identified its first case of wild...
‘Huge spike’ in global conflict caused record number of displacements in 2021
Those fleeing combat were internally displaced 14.4m times, with biggest toll in sub-Saharan Africa, report reveals Conflict and violence forced people from their homes a...
‘History repeating’: Amazon base in Cape Town splits Indigenous groups
Building work is quiet, for now, on £200m project that pits different visions of South Africa’s future against one another Smoke curls into the air,...
UN confirms death of one of last Rwandan genocide fugitives
Phénéas Munyarugarama is second person wanted for their involvement in 1994 mass killings to die One of the last five fugitives wanted for his role...
‘I thought the UK was a good country’: Sudan massacre refugee faces removal to Rwanda
Mohammed is among first asylum seekers to face removal under Home Office’s controversial scheme It took Mohammed more than three years and a journey of...
US supreme court abortion reversal would be global ‘catastrophe’ for women
If Roe v Wade is overturned, it will encourage anti-choice groups – particularly in the developing world, activists warn The probable demise of abortion as...
The ‘Spider-Man’ of Sudan: masked activist becomes symbol of resistance
Dressed in red and blue, ‘Spidey’ is a fixture at protests against the military regime – and the subject of a new Guardian documentary Violence...