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Climate injustice: Malawi crippled by global warming it didn’t create (dubbed)
Last month was the world’s hottest February on record and the ninth consecutive month of record temperatures. We often see the impact played out through severe weather events and the death toll that comes with them, but there are other less visible consequences too. A recent report by the World Economic Forum estimates the health…
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Johannesburg fire: More than 70 dead in building housing homeless
President Cyril Ramaphosa has been visiting the site of a devastating fire in central Johannesburg which claimed the lives of more than 70 people, including at least 12 children. Tonight, Channel 4 News has been told that criminal gangs had partitioned the building using locked gates, preventing people from fleeing – part of an illegal…
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Is Africa at the centre of a new cold war?
Is Africa caught in a new Cold War?
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UK government’s asylum deal with Rwanda ‘unacceptable’, Nobel Peace Prize winner says
We speak to the Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr Denis Mukwege, who’s demanding the United Nations impose sanctions on Rwanda for its alleged support of the M23 rebels – accusations the Rwandan government denies.
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UN accuses Rwanda of fuelling conflict in DR Congo
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an increasingly bloody conflict between the country’s armed forces and a Tutsi militia group has displaced hundreds of thousands, and threatens to bring chaos to central Africa.
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Deterrence the main aim of Rwanda immigration plan, says Conservative MP
We spoke to Craig Mackinlay, the Conservative MP for South Thanet, about the Government’s proposed immigration policy to send people to Rwanda.
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Asylum seekers who arrived in UK this year could be sent to Rwanda, government says
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.
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South Africa’s Covid journey: inequality and anger
From harsh lockdowns that have exacerbated inequality to the struggle to get jabs in arms.
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Climate jihad: how a changing planet fuels terrorism
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.
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Lubaina Himid: Black artists ‘enriching, not threatening’ British culture
“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.
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Ethiopia’s border fight: The war against al-Shabaab
While Ethiopia’s conflict rages in the north of the country, another enemy is looking to exploit the situation in the east.
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DRC’s toxic cost of going green
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.
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Ethiopia: War crimes likely to have been committed by all sides, says UN report
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.
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Coastal erosion in Nigeria leaves communities fearing their homes will disappear
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.
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At least six shot dead by guards at migrant detention centre in Libya, say UN officials
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.