Kenya starvation cult: ‘My wife and six children followed Pastor Mackenzie’
Kenyan preacher Paul Nthenge Mackenzie has appeared in court following the discovery of scores of bodies in a remote forest. He is accused of encouraging followers to starve themselves to death - hundreds of relatives are now wondering…
Obituary: Harry Belafonte
By the mid-1950s, the singer Harry Belafonte had taken the lead role in an Oscar-nominated film, Carmen Jones; reached No 1 with his album Calypso, which helped find a mainstream audience for that musical style and became the first album…
Christian Moussa’s long, treacherous journey to a French passport
Christian Ally Moussa did not tell anyone that he had decided to get in a small boat to make the 350km (220-mile) trip across a treacherous stretch of the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and the French island of Mayotte.
He was…
Sudan fighting: The Nigerian footballer who fled in his shorts
Charles Collins was looking forward to his next match in the Sudan Premier League when fighting broke out in the country on 15 April, turning the city where he lived into a war zone.
The 28-year-old Nigerian footballer, who plays for…
Sudan crisis: Actress Asia Abdelmajid killed in Khartoum cross-fire
The death of a well-known actress, killed in cross-fire in the north of Khartoum, has shocked residents of Sudan's capital. But she is just one of many civilians still in the city who are paying with their lives as the fighting continues…
Mats, movies and medicine: The wrestler who ‘fell in love’ with acting
At just 20 years of age, Madusu Koroma already has plenty to grapple with in life.
Not only did she inspire her country at last year's Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, narrowly missing out on a bronze medal in the wrestling, the Sierra…
From Ghana to Germany: Tracking down the owner of a lost wallet
The black, weathered, plastic wallet found on the Italian island of Lampedusa had been carried 3,500km (2,200 miles) from Ghana and then seemingly discarded.
Opening it up, Richard Opoku's face stared back at me from the corner of his…
Gay Ugandan asks ‘Where will I go?’ as secret shelters under threat
Uganda's parliament last week passed one of the world's toughest laws against homosexual activities, prompting widespread condemnation. If signed into law by the president, anyone who identifies as LGBT could face life in prison.
It…
Searching for my roots in an Algerian cemetery
In our series of letters from African journalists, Maher Mezahi writes about what looking for the branches of his family tree has taught him.
On the outskirts of Skikda, an agreeable Mediterranean city along Algeria's eastern seaboard,…
Tvorchi – the Nigerian-Ukrainian pop duo set to represent Ukraine at the Eurovision song contest
"Despite the pain, I continue my fight. The world is on fire, but you should act."
A crowd of 600 crammed into a nightclub in Lviv dance along to the defiant words of TVORCHI - the Nigerian-Ukrainian pop duo set to represent Ukraine at…
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