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    Kenyan Del Monte farm seeks human rights manager after claims of violence

    Exclusive: new role created after Guardian uncovered allegations against company’s security guardsA vast Del Monte pineapple...

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    West Africa heatwave was supercharged by climate crisis, study finds

    High temperatures in February affected millions of people and put further pressure on chocolate pricesA searing...

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    Move to overturn FGM ban in the Gambia postponed

    Committee will examine for at least three months a bill proposing repeal of ban on female...

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    Libya coastguard accused of hampering attempt to save more than 170 people

    Médecins Sans Frontières says ‘dangerous manoeuvres’ by coastguard put refugees at even greater riskAn NGO performing...

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    Idris Elba reveals ‘dream’ of building eco city on island off Sierra Leone

    Actor and his childhood friend planning development on Sherbro to be a public-private partnershipIdris Elba has...

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    Weather tracker: cyclone warning in Australia while Finland freezes in -16C lows

    Meanwhile, South Sudan has ordered schools to shut amid extreme heatwaveA cyclone warning has been issued...

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    South Sudan closes schools in preparation for 45C heatwave

    Authorities advise parents to keep children indoors during extreme heatwave, expected to last two weeksSouth Sudan...

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    EU seals €7.4bn deal with Egypt in effort to avert another migration crisis

    Six of bloc’s leaders sign agreement in Cairo aimed at boosting economy and bringing stability to...

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    Niger junta repudiates deal allowing US military bases on its soil

    Spokesman for coup government stops short of calling for American personnel to leave but says their...

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    ‘I saw many people suffer’: former Del Monte Kenya guards speak of violence on pineapple farm

    Exclusive: Former guards tell of clashes on farm that is facing civil claims over allegations of...

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    Much of west and central Africa without internet after undersea cable failures

    Ivory Coast, Liberia, Benin, Ghana and Burkina Faso among countries experiencing outages Much of west and...

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    Somalia has 99% of $2bn debt cancelled in major boost to fragile recovery

    Paris Club of creditor nations agree cancellation as Mogadishu moves towards financial normalisation amid ongoing conflictThe...

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    Darfur rape survivors gather together after ethnically targeted campaign

    Group on outskirts of Geneina share stories from November when RSF and allied militias unleashed wave...

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    Zimbabwe police arrest apostolic ‘prophet’ and rescue 251 children from compound

    Man claiming to be a prophet arrested along with seven aides ‘for criminal activities which include...

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    Rwanda opposition leader barred from election over past convictions

    Victoire Ingabire, who was pardoned for terrorism and genocide denial offences, denounces court’s ‘clearly politicised’ rulingA...

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    Seven times size of Manhattan: the African tree-planting project making a difference

    Thousands of farmers have been persuaded by TREES scheme to replace barren monocultures with biodiverse forest...

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    Search continues for hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren

    Two mass abductions were the latest in a series of group kidnappings by gunmenNigerian security forces...

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    Eight children and an adult die in Zanzibar after eating sea turtle meat

    Another 78 people taken to hospital after consuming delicacy, which is known to cause food poisoningEight...

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    Nigeria: 15 children kidnapped in another school raid

    Attackers force their way into school days after 300 children abducted in different Nigerian state Gunmen...

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    Dramatic rise in women and girls being cut, new FGM data reveals

    Progress to prevent female genital mutilation needs to be ‘27 times faster’, says UNThe number of...

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    At least 287 Nigerian students abducted from school by gunmen, say authorities

    Assailants reportedly surrounded Kuriga school as pupils were starting the day in second abduction in country...

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    About 170 people ‘executed’ in Burkina Faso village attacks, official says

    Regional prosecutor says he received reports of deaths in three northern settlements as jihadist violence flaresAbout...

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    Kenya signs deal in attempt to rescue plan for deployment of 1,000 police officers to Haiti

    It’s not clear if the new agreement can circumvent the Kenyan high court’s earlier ruling that...

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    Rwanda plan to cost UK £1.8m for each asylum seeker, figures show

    Disclosure, calculated on basis of 300 deportations, called ‘staggering’ by chair of home affairs committeeRishi Sunak’s...