#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. × 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. × 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. × 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. × Bold or a ‘capitulation’? Victoria’s premier claims Labor’s reworked building goals are still on target. The final state housing targets have seen a reduction in numbers, but the overall goal of refocusing growth into Melbourne’s inner core remains
#Feb.24.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘We’re healing this common body we call a nation’: the plays assessing Kenya’s present by retelling its past. The series of shows draws on threads of Kenyan history, tackling disenfranchisement, colonialism and oppression while inspiring the country’s young people to participate in its future
#Feb.23.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘Trump and Musk are gaslighting’: anti-apartheid artist on how US president and his billionaire ally are attacking South Africa. Ahead of a career retrospective, Sue Williamson tells how the US pair are dragging her country ‘through the mud’
#Feb.23.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Rwandan troops ‘dying in large numbers in DRC’, despite official denials of role. Exclusive: Sources say thousands of RDF killed supporting M23 rebels in eastern Congo, intensifying pressure on Kigali
#Feb.07.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Concern in Downing Street over Chagos Islands handover deal. Senior figures have reservations over agreement to cede sovereignty over islands to Mauritius, Labour sources say
#Feb.05.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Mauritian PM expects ‘speedy resolution’ with UK over Chagos Islands. Navin Ramgoolam says Keir Starmer expressed confidence about finalising agreement within weeks
#Feb.04.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘There is nothing here’: the island left behind by Lagos’s economic boom. Politicians in Nigeria hope the country’s largest city will one day look like Dubai, but on nearby Refuge Island people live without electricity
#Feb.04.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Rwandan-backed rebel group M23 declares unilateral ceasefire in DRC. Announcement came after UN health agency said at least 900 people were killed in fighting between the rebels and DR Congo forces in eastern city of Goma
#Feb.04.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Critic of Italy-Libya migration pact told he was target of Israeli spyware. Husam El Gomati, who reports on links between Italian government and Libya’s coastguard, fears for his sources
#Feb.03.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Trump says he is cutting off funding to South Africa over land confiscations. Government of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is ‘treating certain classes of people very badly’, Trump claims as he demands ‘full investigation’ of situation
#Feb.03.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Trump airstrikes target ‘senior IS attack planner’ in Somalia. The US secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, indicated multiple jihadists were killed and no civilians were harmed
#Feb.01.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Trump ally Peter Marocco behind evisceration of USAid: ‘He’s a destroyer’. Campaign ally sowed trail of enmity during first Trump presidency and allegedly was present at January 6 riot
#Feb.01.2025 ×
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