Africa News

‘Milestone’: Macron opens Paris monument honouring Rwanda genocide victims

President Macron, acknowledging France’s ‘responsibility’ in the genocide, calls memorial a reconciliation ‘milestone’.

Spain bans DR Congo World Cup warm-up due to Ebola fears

Spanish mayor bans DR Congo pre-World Cup 2026 game in La Linea de la Concepcion due to Ebola fears.

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From: Counting the Cost

China opens its markets to African exports. Who benefits?

China’s tariff-free access for many African products has renewed hopes of industrial growth. But trade remains uneven.

The Horn of Africa needs reconciliation, not new borders

Recognising Somaliland would not deliver stability. It would entrench division, in Somalia and well beyond it.

How social media is turning African life into content at a cost

Across Africa, social media redefines politics, culture, identity, and connection, blurring community and performance.

Refugee women in CAR face childbirth risks amid US funding cuts

A woman holds her baby outside the registration centre for new refugees on the outskirts of the Korsi refugee camp in Birao, Central African Republic. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

Maude Ahmad Fadala rocks her baby inside the Korsi refugee camp, where she gave birth in the street in Birao. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

Women crowd the tiny maternity ward in Birao, which has just eight beds for about 70,000 locals and 22,000 Sudanese refugees, in a country where more than 40 percent of births already take place outside any health facility. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

Women and children fetch water at dusk in the Korsi camp in Birao. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

A nurse gives painkillers to patient Amna Adam Hessen, whose baby was delivered stillborn the previous day. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

Patients sit thigh‑to‑thigh on hard benches in the sweltering maternity ward as staff say the number of women arriving daily has tripled since Sudan’s war began in early 2023, overwhelming a health system already weakened by years of internal conflict. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

A nurse checks on a woman recovering from heavy bleeding after a complicated breech delivery, one of the preventable emergencies that become lethal when pregnancies go unmonitored despite World Health Organization guidance for at least eight prenatal visits. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

Women wait outside the delivery room at the Birao District Hospital. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

Heavily pregnant Sudanese refugees queue for water in a camp near the Sudan border, where displacement, poverty and lack of education intersect with a collapsed referral system, leaving many unsure whether any help will be available when labour starts. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

A pharmacist hands pregnant women painkillers from boxes at the pharmacy of the Birao District Hospital. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

Refugee Amna Adam Hessen lies on a bare foam mattress after losing her breech baby and bleeding heavily during labour, a death narrowly averted in a country where nearly two‑thirds of maternal deaths worldwide occur in conflict or fragile settings. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

Women line up outside the maternity entrance at Birao District Hospital, one of the only facilities in the area that used to receive reproductive health supplies from UNFPA — the sole provider in town — before aid cuts threw maternal care into a deeper crisis. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]