#theguardian.com. × ‘I am willing to die’: hunger-striking mother of writer jailed in Egypt fights on in London hospital bed. After more than 150 days without food, Laila Soueif says she will continue until there is some positive news from Cairo
#Feb.28.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Macron says French-Algerian author under ‘arbitrary detention’ in Algeria. French president voices concern for health of Boualem Sansal, who is on hunger strike over his imprisonment
#Feb.28.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Anneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budget. Exclusive: International development minister warns it will be ‘impossible’ to retain funding in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine
#Feb.28.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’. Cuts could result in 500,000 deaths over the next 10 years in the country, research suggests
#Feb.28.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × The secret bond that helped two captive women survive Mozambique’s Islamists. Barely known to each other before they were abducted by the brutal al-Shabaab militants, a friendship forged in adversity helped them and their children find safety
#Feb.28.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Saudi border forces accused of killing ‘hundreds of Ethiopian migrants’. Witnesses making the crossing from Yemen report coming under machine-gun fire and seeing rotting bodies
#Feb.28.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Donald Trump suggests he will back UK in Chagos Islands deal. ‘I think we’ll be inclined to go along with your country,’ president says of plan to hand sovereignty to Mauritius
#Feb.27.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Netanyahu sends delegation to Egypt to continue Gaza ceasefire talks with Hamas. Israeli team heads to Cairo as end of deal’s first phase approaches, but big differences remain between two sides
#Feb.27.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × People flee M23 rally after deadly blast in DRC city of Bukavu – video. The rebels blamed the government, which condemned the attack and accused a 'foreign army' on DRC soil of being responsible for the incident
#Feb.27.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × King asks Moroccans not to kill sheep for Eid al-Adha as drought reduces herds. First such request in 29 years blames economic hardship and climate crisis for high livestock prices and shortages
#Feb.27.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Namibian editors angered by US scrutiny over western media affiliation. US embassy asked newspapers if they were associated with likes of New York Times after state department edict
#Feb.27.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Trump administration ends funding for UN program fighting HIV/Aids. Peter Marocco sends letter to UNAids terminating US involvement in serious blow to live-saving health service
#Feb.27.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × More than 100,000 African seeds put in Svalbard vault for safekeeping. Seeds of 177 species from across Africa to be stored in Norway to preserve crop diversity in case of disaster
#Feb.27.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Africa’s medical system risks ‘collapse in next few years’, warns health leader. Focusing foreign aid on infectious diseases has allowed a rise in cancer and diabetes that African governments don’t have resources to fight, says Dr Githinji Gitahi
#Feb.27.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Life without parole for Nice church attacker who murdered three. Brahim Aouissaoui claimed the fatal stabbings at a church in southern French city were revenge on westerners
#Feb.26.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘The killers I met in jail didn’t scare me’: singer Rokia Traoré on why prison was ‘a privilege’. After serving time in Paris, Rome and Brussels, the Malian star is ready to perform again – and planning a book and a stage show about her fellow inmates and her own prison experiences
#Feb.26.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × The Long Wave: How A Thousand Blows recovers the lost history of a lion-taming West Indian boxer. Historian David Olusoga sheds light on Hezekiah Moscow, a mysterious migrant seeking a better life in Victorian London. Plus, my suya obsession
#Feb.26.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Mother of Egypt detainee ready to end hunger strike if UK makes progress. Laila Soueif was hospitalised for low blood sugar this week as she tries to secure release of son Alaa Abd el-Fattah
#Feb.26.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Victoria police officer admits ‘unprofessional’ comments after pepper-spraying climate protesters. Court played body-worn camera footage of comments by Nicholas Bolzonello who has given evidence in the trial
#Feb.26.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × UK suspends aid to Rwanda over support for DRC rebels. The UK government will cease attending events hosted by Rwanda, as well as pausing aid to all but the ‘poorest and most vulnerable’
#Feb.25.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Unknown illness kills more than 50 in north-west DRC. The outbreak, first discovered in three children who ate a bat, has caused 431 cases and 53 deaths
#Feb.25.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Ghana pays for the west’s wastefulness | Letters. Letter: The Kantamanto market fire highlighted to Miah Redmond that the country’s future should not be built on the waste of others, but on its own industries
#Feb.25.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Activists call for state of emergency over gender-based violence in Nigeria. Deaths of 22 women this year include a 240% rise in January, as rights groups say perpetrators are acting with impunity
#Feb.25.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Must leaders be men? In Africa, it's time for the patriarchy to give way | Minna Salami. All-male elections at the African Union highlighted the exclusion of talented women from power. The continent cannot thrive like that, says author Minna Salami
#Feb.25.2025 ×
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