President Samia Suluhu took over three months ago as leader of Tanzania - from John Magufuli, a prominent coronavirus sceptic who died in March from heart complications, opening up the prospect of a new approach to Covid. So has Tanzania changed...
The UK government is among major aid donors to have funded clinics in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania that offer so-called “conversion therapies”, which pressurise gay people to “quit” same-sex attraction, an investigation has found. In a six-month undercover investigation of the centres,...
Authorities in South Africa appeared set to impose new restrictions on Sunday in a belated attempt to stem a rise in Covid-19 that is ravaging the country’s economic heartland. The wave of infections has been driven by the spread of the more...
Robin Hammond has spent two decades crisscrossing the developing world and telling other people’s stories. From photographing the Rohingya forced out of Myanmar and rape survivors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to documenting the lives of people in countries where their sexuality...
Ousmane Sembène, the “father of African cinema”, tells a tale of Jonsonian bleakness about human nature with his 1968 film Mandabi, or The Money Order, adapted from his own novella and now on rerelease. As with much of the rest...
Dakar - Federation of African Journalists accused UAE of “attempts” to manipulate their conference taking place in early June. The conference issued urgent press release including a resolution to condemn attempt to impact journalists by UAE. The press release said,...
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, will visit Rwanda on Thursday to “write a new page” in the relationship between the two countries that was poisoned by France’s role in the 1994 Tutsi genocide. The Elysée said the visit was important and...
Africa now has the highest death rate in the world among adults who become critically ill after contracting Covid-19, according to new data. The African Covid-19 Critical Care Outcomes Study (ACCCOS) published in The Lancet observed 64 hospitals across 10 African countries between May and...
Madagascar’s worst drought in 40 years has left more than a million people facing a year of desperate food shortages. The south of the island will produce less than half its usual harvest in the coming months because of low rains, prolonging...
A Malian woman has given birth to nine babies – all “doing well so far” – in what is thought to be a world record for the most children in a single birth to survive. Halima Cisse had been expected...
