#theguardian.com. × More than 200 killed in coltan mine collapse in eastern DRC, officials say. Rubaya mine produces about 15% of the world’s coltan, which is processed into tantalum, used in mobile phones
#Jan.30.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Displacement Film Fund review – Cate Blanchett masterminds short film collection that brims with life and intensity. A set of shorts by film-makers from Afghanistan, Iran, Ukraine, Syria and Somalia are shocking, funny and mysterious in equal measure
#Jan.30.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Islamic State claims attack on international airport and airbase in Niger. Motorcycle-riding militants launch strikes using heavy weaponry and drones, damaging planes belonging to Ivorian carrier and Togolese airline
#Jan.30.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × South Africa expels top Israeli diplomat over ‘insulting attacks’ on president. Ariel Seidman declared persona non grata and given 72 hours to leave country after remarks on social media
#Jan.30.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Seven in 10 Africans are under 30 – invest in them and they will change the world | Monica Geingos. The countries that invest in youth now will be the ones that define global innovation in the coming years
#Jan.30.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘Unjust and inhuman’: how royal family ignored a Black abolitionist’s plea to end the slave trade. In this adapted extract from The Crown’s Silence, which examines the royal family’s links with slavery from Elizabeth I to the present, Ottobah Cugoano directly appeals to the monarchy – but is met wit
#Jan.29.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Nursing a skink: endangered alpine lizard numbers set to rise after Omeo falls pregnant in Victoria. Eleven guthega skinks could soon become 13 thanks to a captive breeding program in the Alpine national park
#Jan.29.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Planes hit by gunfire and blasts heard at airport in Niger capital – reports. Source says two aircraft on ground ‘destroyed’ although authorities yet to comment on situation
#Jan.29.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × ActionAid sponsorship schemes: helping children and women or a colonial relic? | Letters. Letters: Readers respond to the news that the development charity is rethinking such schemes as they carry racialised, paternalistic undertones
#Jan.28.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘Political thunderstorm’: inside Trump’s attacks on the Somali community. The US president’s clamp down on immigration and flouting of the rule of law in Minnesota is entrenching long-established reserves of solidarity
#Jan.28.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Cuts leave deadly mines in the ground and push hundreds of women out of work. De-mining organisations forced to cut staff, many of whom were women, despite landmines littering Zimbabwe-Mozambique border
#Jan.28.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Clive Myrie’s African Adventure review – a wonderful show packed full of fun, joy and hope. Myrie is great company, getting stuck into everything from street art to milking goats and having tea with Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter – but he is incredibly moving, too. More soon please!
#Jan.26.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘I didn’t know how to shoot’: how African men have been tricked into fighting for Russia. Exclusive: Lured by false job adverts, they are unknowingly enlisted on arrival and put in mortal danger
#Jan.26.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Crocodile warnings as floods devastate southern Africa. More than 100 people killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe
#Jan.26.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘They told us to leave. They didn’t tell us where to go’: the demolitions destroying homes and lives in Lagos. Makoko’s waterfront stilt settlements were razed with little warning amid government claims that the move was essential for sanitation and security
#Jan.26.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘You feel obligated’: African workers on the pain – and pride – of the ‘black tax’. For workers sending money to support their relatives, payments are both a burden and badge of pride
#Jan.24.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘It’s the sovereignty of the country’: Guinea-Bissau says US vaccine study suspended. Despite US pushback, officials in west Africa say controversial hepatitis B study on pause amid ethics concerns
#Jan.23.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘We need change, not just as young people but as a country’: Uganda’s youth on 40 years of Museveni. This month the president was reelected for his seventh term, devastating the hopes of many who fear a future of stagnation and unemployment
#Jan.23.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘It has been overwhelming’: Sudanese friends complete 900-mile UK walk. Giel Malual and John Kuei trekked from Dungeness to John o’Groats to raise funds for new schools in Sudan
#Jan.22.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Inside the magic and chaos of the Africa Cup of Nations. While Senegal’s victory in the chaotic final has made the headlines, we look at five other big takeaways from the tournament – from the strong diaspora representation to the floor-filling tunes
#Jan.21.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Head of US Africa bureau urges staff to highlight US ‘generosity’ despite aid cuts. Email sent to diplomats by state department office’s new boss is labelled ‘racist’ after dismissing Africa as a priority
#Jan.20.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘I thought it was going to perish’: the remarkable revival of an endangered language in Lesotho. Concentrated among 1,000 people in the remote Daliwe valley, siPhuthi has gained a dictionary, a Bible translation and official recognition thanks to intrepid linguists and activists
#Jan.20.2026 ×
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