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‘It’s indescribable’: the hospital on the frontline of Haiti’s devastating gang war
Doctors in Port-au-Prince try to save lives as the bloodshed accelerates in…
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…
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…