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I blame the Church for my brother’s death, says Zimbabwean sister of UK child abuser’s victim
The sister of a 16-year-old boy who drowned while swimming naked at…
Why there’s a rush of African satellite launches
One by one, the satellites – each of them encrusted with a…
‘We are poisoning ourselves’: Ghana gold rush sparks environmental disaster
Water from a polluted river in Ghana was so thick and discoloured…
Luther Vandross: the tragic R&B crooner who struggled for acceptance
A new documentary looks back on the career of a singer whose…
‘Try or die’ – one man’s determination to get to the Canary Islands
Senegalese farmer Mouhamed Oualy has never been to sea, but he is…
‘I found out I had cervical cancer while I was pregnant’
Dorothy Masasa happily walks down a dirt road on a sunny afternoon,…
The journey that helped save Nigeria’s art for the nation
The Nigerian National Museum in Lagos sits in the city like a…
Eritrean cyclists in pursuit of inspirational Girmay
Eritrea's Biniam Girmay is a hero in his cycling-mad homeland. The first…
Kidnapped and trafficked twice – a sex worker’s life in Sierra Leone
Isata, a single mother in her early twenties, epitomises the horrors of…
Climate change is turbo-charging Somalia’s problems – but there’s still hope
Somalia may be one of the poorest countries in the world and…
