Africa

We spoke to Craig Mackinlay, the Conservative MP for South Thanet, about the Government’s proposed immigration policy to send people to Rwanda.

The government says it intends to “quickly” implement its controversial new plan to send people to Rwanda – announcing that anyone who’s arrived in the UK seeking asylum this year, may be handed a one-way ticket.

From harsh lockdowns that have exacerbated inequality to the struggle to get jabs in arms. 

Conflict over diminishing resources is driving jihadi violence in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. Today, our International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports on her recent trip to Niger.

“I’ve always been ambitious to change the way British art galleries are,” says the artist Lubaina Himid, the first Black woman to win the Turner Prize four years ago. 

While Ethiopia’s conflict rages in the north of the country, another enemy is looking to exploit the situation in the east. 

Africa Correspondent Jamal Osman tracks down the men who are risking their lives to work the cobalt mines, and the families living with the life changing consequences of those risks. 

A UN-led report into the year-long, bloody conflict in northern Ethiopia has found evidence that war crimes and crimes against humanity are likely to have been committed by all sides.

The continent of Africa is on the frontline of the climate emergency, but all too often it has the quietest voice at the table when pressing for global changes. 

At least six people have been shot dead by guards at a migrant detention centre in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, according to United Nations officials, after yesterday’s mass breakout by hundreds of people.

On Monday, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is expected to publish a new report showing global temperatures rising more quickly than anticipated, with government’s needing to go further and faster to prevent rising sea levels and more extreme weather events. Earlier we spoke to Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr – the mayor of Sierra Leone’s capital…

We spoke to a reporter with South African TV station ENCA, Masego Rahlaga, who was in the Alexandra township in Johannesburg, where police were retrieving items looted from nearby stores.

At least 72 people have been killed in days of violence in South Africa, fuelled by long-running anger over poverty and inequality and sparked by last week’s imprisonment of former president Jacob Zuma.  

In Africa just two percent of people are vaccinated. It has just seen the worst surge in Covid cases since the pandemic began, with cases now doubling every 18 days.

In Mozambique, the oil and gas rich northern province of Cabo Delgado has become one of the latest targets of resurgent Islamic state group militants.