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Is Uganda the world's best place for refugees?
Once refugees themselves, Ugandans look to ‘return the good’ to people fleeing war in South Sudan by offering land and help A mix of Afrobeat and South Sudanese folk music resounds over the...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/01/is-uganda-worlds-best-place-for-refugees-south-sudan
South Africa mining massacre victims offered £75m in damages
Government offers to compensate victims of 2012 police shooting at Marikana mine that left 34 workers dead The South African government has offered to pay 1.17bn rand (£75m) in compensation to...
Rebels with a cause: Africa's whistleblowers need urgent protection
A group of activists, lawyers and artists have launched a platform to help citizen watchdogs in often dangerous situations In many African countries, the secretive and self-serving deeds of pol...
'You were supposed to die tonight': US anti-terror strategy linked to torture in Africa
Security forces funded by US are accused of human rights abuses including summary executions and disappearances Just before his torturers pushed him out of the van, barely conscious, on to the ...
'Fake news' fuelled civil war in Burundi. Now it's being used again
Exiled journalists tell of how decades of balanced post-conflict reporting is being dismantled by President Nkurunziza As a journalist, it is Aline’s job to report on her country and presiden...
In an age of autocracy, meet the dissidents speaking truth to power
Strongmen are back in vogue, but these six people are determined to defy the despots These are trying times. We live in an age of autocracy when strongmen (they are almost always men) abuse the...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/22/age-of-autocracy-dissidents-speaking-truth-to-power
Kenya's health system on the verge of collapse as doctors' strike grinds on
Mass walkout over reneged 2013 deal on boosting pay and staffing has left patients untreated and medical union leaders in jail Kenya’s hospitals have almost ground to a halt, with millions fa...
Meet Aisha, a former antelope hunter who now tracks Boko Haram
How Aisha Bakari Gombi, ‘queen hunter’ in the fight against the world’s deadliest terror group, became a heroine in north Nigeria As seven abducted women and four children were being take...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/08/antelope-hunter-boko-haram-nigeria
Devastating impact of meth in the womb exposed in South African schools
Extent of crisis becomes clear as children of women caught up in tik epidemic struggle with hyperactivity and aggression Justin Summers has a mop of curly brown hair and enjoys playing marbles. ...
South African scandal after nearly 100 mental health patients die
Gauteng minister resigns after facilities found to be ‘unable to distinguish between proper care and a business opportunity’ At least 94 patients with mental health issues died after South ...
Ivory Coast officials refuse to explain why two gay men were jailed
Acitivists say if indecency law was applied it would be first known instance of it being used to jail gay people Authorities in the Ivory Coast have refused to explain why two gay men were arre...
Ebola, war … but just two psychiatrists to deal with a nation's trauma
Overwhelmed counsellors and medical staff in Sierra Leone must contend with suspicion and a collapse in funding The history of Africa’s oldest psychiatric hospital is written on the walls of ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/20/sierra-leone-war-ebola-africa-psychiatric-care
'My neighbour murdered nearly all of my family, but now we are friends'
Thanks to a pioneering reconciliation project survivors and perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide now live side by side In a leafy, quiet district less than an hour’s drive from Rwanda’s cap...
How to fight Boko Haram? Open a school
Religious leaders fearful of Islamist threat believe giving girls free weekend lessons will counter spread of militancy As a military campaign against Boko Haram continues in northern Cameroon...
Cameroon urged to investigate deaths amid anglophone protests
Four killed when police fire into air, as tensions rise in English-speaking areas over perceived discrimination International organisations are calling for an investigation in Cameroon after fo...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/13/cameroon-urged-investigate-clashes-anglophone-regions
Why do EU leaders still think they can engage with Eritrea's regime?
European officials under pressure to cut migration should have learned by now that ignoring human rights violations is unlikely to succeed As the European parliament hosts another Eritrean poli...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/13/eu-leaders-want-new-beginning-eritrea-wont-bear-fruit
War crimes trial of former Ugandan child soldier Dominic Ongwen to begin
Ex-Lord’s Resistance Army commander to appear at international criminal court over war crimes and crimes against humanity A former militia leader who took part in a campaign of violence acros...
A cellphone is no substitute for a midwife, African tech prodigy warns
Founder of app that helps pregnant women says governments must not rely on technology to plug gaps in basic services African governments are using technological advances as an excuse to continu...
Skilled, determined and broke: Africa's female football pioneers
Despite social and sporting progress, even the best teams at the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations struggle to fund friendlies Shortly after the opening ceremony of the Women’s Africa Cup of Na...
The Nigerian refugees displaced by Boko Haram – in pictures
More than 2 million people have been displaced by Boko Haram-related violence in north-east Nigeria. Judith Prat photographed the internally displaced people who are suffering in both the refugee...