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In hot water: Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. (Photo by Sebastian Barros/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Kenya’s deputy president faces impeachment vote

Rigathi Gachagua says the charges against him, including corruption, are a ploy to push him out of office

Outgoing President Filipe Nyusi’s Frelimo party has held power since independence from Portugal in 1975

Meet Mozambique’s four leading presidential candidates

Outgoing President Filipe Nyusi’s Frelimo party has held power since independence from Portugal in 1975

Both the US and China have already issued counter warnings to would-be double-dealers who might wish to strike trade deals at the expense of each other’s interests.

US charges Tiananmen Square protester with spying for China

He is also accused of lying to the FBI for claiming he no longer had access to an email account used to communicate with his state security handler

Imane Khelif competes against Anna Luca Hamori of Hungary in the women’s 66kg quarter-final boxing match at the Paris Olympics on 3 August. (Mehmet Murat Onel/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Home village of Algerian boxer in gender controversy hails its  ‘heroine’

Imane Khelif has fought on the women’s circuit for years and there is nothing to suggest she identifies as anything other than female

Tributes: Malian musician Toumani Diabaté. Photo: Laurent Emmanuel/AFP

Mali loses a national treasure

Mali’s “king of kora” Toumani Diabaté died last Friday, 19 July, at the age of 58

President Donald Trump is rushed offstage. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

What we know: Trump assassination attempt

Donald Trump narrowly escaped an assassination attempt at a political rally Saturday, leaving the FBI hunting for information about how a gunman could attack a former US president.

Blast: Chadian security force members inspect the scene of the fire at an ammunition depot in N’Djamena.  Photo: Joris Bolomey/AFP

Deadly fire at army ammunition depot in Chad’s capital

At least nine people were reported to have been killed and the 46 injured were in an ‘extremely serious’ condition

Prize: German writer Jenny Erpenbeck at the International Booker Prize
award ceremony in London on 21 May. Photo: Benjamin Cremel/AFP

Novel set in East Berlin wins international Booker award

The book, originally written in German, tells the story of a young woman’s ‘destructive affair’ with an older man in 1980s East Berlin

At least 10 female farm workers, nine of them children, died in Egypt on Tuesday when a minibus plunged off a river ferry and into the Nile northwest of Cairo, the health ministry said.
 (Photo by Ahmed Gamal/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Nine child workers die in Egypt as bus plunges into the Nile

Commuter accidents are common in Egypt, especially in agricultural areas along the Nile and adjoining streams

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nethanyahu. (AFP)

ICC prosecutor seeks Gaza ‘war crimes’ arrest warrant for Netanyahu, Hamas leaders

Karim Khan said he was seeking warrants against Netanyahu and Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes including ‘starvation’, ‘wilful killing’, and ‘extermination and/or…

A Rwandan court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by a prominent opposition figure to have his previous convictions removed, disqualifying him from challenging President Paul Kagame in July elections.

Rwanda opposition figure barred from election race

Bernard Ntaganda, a fierce critic of President Paul Kagame, had petitioned the high court in a bid to set aside convictions dating back more than a decade

Weeping: The crocodiles were hunted for the fashion industry and because of their power to protect people against evil. The once lucrative hunting industry is waning but legendary hunter Papa Baron Missiki, 91, still has the skill to catch the reptiles. Photo: Arsene Mpiana/AFP

Crocodile hunting wanes but legends live on in DRC

Crocodile hunting was once lucrative, with its skin sought after for its power to protect people against evil spirits, and for use in the fashion industry

Media crackdown in Burkina Faso intensifies

More foreign news outlets are gagged over massacre reports accusing soldiers of killing at least 223 people in revenge attacks in February

Togo MPs adopt new Constitution

The country’s the last major constitutional change was in 1992

New broom: Senegalese president elect Bassirou Diomaye Faye at a press conference in Dakar on 25 March. Photo: John Wessels/AFP

Senegal’s Bassirou Diomaye Faye steps into presidential spotlight

The incoming head of state has promised the country profound change and left-wing pan-Africanism

The school in Kuririga, pictured on March 8, 2024, where more than 250 pupils were kidnapped by gunmen. Haidar Umar/AFP/Getty Images

‘Bandits’ blamed for kidnapping of Nigerian schoolchildren

While Nigerian soldiers search the forests in the northwestern state for the 280 learners kidnapped by gunmen riding motorbikes, desperate families are still waiting for news

Ghana’s finance ministry has advised President Nana Akufo-Addo against endorsing a highly contested anti-LGBTQ bill, warning that it could end up with the financially strapped country losing billions of dollars in World Bank funds.
Photo: Simon Maina/AFP

Ghanaian finance ministry warns against fallout from anti-LGBTQ law

The new legislation stipulates jail terms of six months to three years for sex

Protestors with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) holds a placard during a protest against the recent raise in cost of living/economic hardship across the country in Abuja on February 27, 2024.  (Photo by Olukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Thousands of Nigerians protest over soaring costs

As inflation skyrockets, many poor Nigerians have had to skip meals and give up products such as meat, eggs and milk

Backer: Supporters of Macky Sall stage a demonstration in Dakar in support of the president against the harsh criticisms by civil society groups and opposition parties. Photo: Cem Ozdel/Getty Images

Senegal president pursues talks for new election date

Senegal’s Macky Sall has said what happens between his leaving office and the presidential election will also be discussed

Vehicle for art: Esther Mahlangu poses with a BMW covered in her work at her retrospective in Cape Town. Photo: Marco Longari/AFP

Mahlangu’s show traces the patterns of her career

The Ndebele artist’s retrospective is on at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town