#theguardian.com. × Canadian ex-Olympian pleads not guilty to 17 felonies including drug trafficking. Authorities allege Ryan Wedding, 44, ‘turned to a life of crime’ after his snowboarding career ended
#Jan.26.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Clive Myrie’s African Adventure review – a wonderful show packed full of fun, joy and hope. Myrie is great company, getting stuck into everything from street art to milking goats and having tea with Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter – but he is incredibly moving, too. More soon please!
#Jan.26.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Guyanese businessman facing US extradition elected opposition leader. Azruddin Mohamed’s election comes six months after he formed political party that became country’s second largest
#Jan.26.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘I didn’t know how to shoot’: how African men have been tricked into fighting for Russia. Exclusive: Lured by false job adverts, they are unknowingly enlisted on arrival and put in mortal danger
#Jan.26.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Hundreds feared dead in attempt to cross Mediterranean during cyclone. Fifty killed in one incident as Italian authorities estimate 380 people may have drowned last week
#Jan.26.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Crocodile warnings as floods devastate southern Africa. More than 100 people killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe
#Jan.26.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Why I’m launching a feminist video games website in 2026. I’ve been a games journalist since 2007, but still there isn’t much video games coverage that feels like it’s specifically for people like me. So I’m creating a home for it: Mothership
#Jan.26.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘They told us to leave. They didn’t tell us where to go’: the demolitions destroying homes and lives in Lagos. Makoko’s waterfront stilt settlements were razed with little warning amid government claims that the move was essential for sanitation and security
#Jan.26.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Myanmar military proxy expected to win landslide in widely denounced election. Voting ends in month-long poll derided internationally as sham designed to cement army’s grip on power
#Jan.25.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘You feel obligated’: African workers on the pain – and pride – of the ‘black tax’. For workers sending money to support their relatives, payments are both a burden and badge of pride
#Jan.24.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘It’s the sovereignty of the country’: Guinea-Bissau says US vaccine study suspended. Despite US pushback, officials in west Africa say controversial hepatitis B study on pause amid ethics concerns
#Jan.23.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘We need change, not just as young people but as a country’: Uganda’s youth on 40 years of Museveni. This month the president was reelected for his seventh term, devastating the hopes of many who fear a future of stagnation and unemployment
#Jan.23.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘It has been overwhelming’: Sudanese friends complete 900-mile UK walk. Giel Malual and John Kuei trekked from Dungeness to John o’Groats to raise funds for new schools in Sudan
#Jan.22.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Ubisoft cancels projects and announces restructure in fight to stay competitive. Video game publisher to cancel Prince of Persia remake and close studios after several difficult years
#Jan.22.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × ActionAid to rethink child sponsorship as part of plan to ‘decolonise’ its work. Development charity’s new co-chief executives signal shift from controversial sponsor a child scheme launched in 1972 to long-term grassroots funding
#Jan.22.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Inside the magic and chaos of the Africa Cup of Nations. While Senegal’s victory in the chaotic final has made the headlines, we look at five other big takeaways from the tournament – from the strong diaspora representation to the floor-filling tunes
#Jan.21.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Head of US Africa bureau urges staff to highlight US ‘generosity’ despite aid cuts. Email sent to diplomats by state department office’s new boss is labelled ‘racist’ after dismissing Africa as a priority
#Jan.20.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘I thought it was going to perish’: the remarkable revival of an endangered language in Lesotho. Concentrated among 1,000 people in the remote Daliwe valley, siPhuthi has gained a dictionary, a Bible translation and official recognition thanks to intrepid linguists and activists
#Jan.20.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘Brazen’ political influence of rich laid bare as wealth of billionaires reaches $18.3tn, says Oxfam. Governments opting for oligarchy while brutally repressing protests over austerity and lack of jobs, charity report says
#Jan.19.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Uganda’s president calls opponents 'terrorists' in victory speech. Yoweri Museveni wins seventh term but poll criticised by observers and rights groups over repression of opposition and internet blackout
#Jan.18.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Sweet thing: a personal look at a photographer’s Cuban slavery heritage – photo essay. From the remnants of my great-grandparents’ Cuban home near the sugar plantation that is part of Unesco’s Slave Route programme – where they were once enslaved - to personal artefacts, each piece recon
#Jan.18.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Smuggled to suburbia: no end to danger for Ethiopians looking for better life in South Africa. With tens of thousands thought to be arriving each year, the ‘southern route’ is becoming more perilous and extortionary
#Jan.18.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Search for single-tusked elephant after 22 killed in India rampage. Eastern region on high alert as authorities try to track animal tearing through villages in Jharkhand after apparently becoming separated from herd
#Jan.13.2026 ×
#theguardian.com. × Russia working to circumvent sanctions to ensure India oil imports continue. Delhi is world’s second largest purchaser of Russian crude, which is now cheaper than oil from Middle East
#Jan.13.2026 ×
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