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How a Ugandan opposition leader disappeared in Kenya and ended up in military court
The mysterious detention of Uganda's opposition leader Kizza Besigye while on a…
A father’s grief after daughter killed in accidental drone strike
An Islamic school teacher, Masud Abdulrasheed, is struggling to come to terms…
From freedom fighter to Namibia’s first female president
Nicknamed NNN, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has made history by being elected as Namibia's…
Breaking African football’s menstrual health ‘taboo’
As women's football grows in popularity across Africa, one challenge is confronting…
Inside South Africa’s ‘ruthless’ gang-controlled gold mines
Along with about 600 other men, Ndumiso lives and works in a…
Burning old TVs to survive: The toxic trade in electrical waste
You can see thick plumes of smoke rise from the Agbogbloshie dumpsite…
‘Pregnant’ for 15 months: Inside the ‘miracle’ fertility scam
Chioma is adamant that Hope, the baby boy she is holding in…
Celebrating the king banished by the British
The field outside the royal palace in the Ghanaian city of Kumasi…
‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo
Over 70 years ago, thousands of mixed-race boys and girls were torn…
He’s 16 and hyped as Usain Bolt’s successor – but Australia’s Gout Gout is keeping his feet on the ground
The schoolboy’s rapid rise has drawn inevitable comparisons with the Jamaican, but…
