#theguardian.com. × #Feb.04.2026 Israeli strikes kill 18 in Gaza and patient crossings at Rafah halted, Palestinian officials say. Four children among dead as restrictions on evacuations put in place days after reopening of crossing to Egypt
#Africa × #Palestine #Asia #Egypt #Israel
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.04.2026 Death of Nigerian singer after snakebite highlights crisis of ‘preventable’ fatalities. Ifunanya Nwangene died in hospital after being bitten in her Abuja home, raising questions about the availability of effective antivenoms
#Nigeria #Africa ×
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.04.2026 Trump-led abuses amid ‘democratic recession’ put human rights in peril, HRW report says. Rights group says growing authoritarianism and abuses in US, Russia and China threaten global rules-based order
#China #Africa × #Russia #Europe #Asia
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.03.2026 Albanese government to sell off $3bn worth of historic defence sites amid push to free up space for new homes. Richard Marles has decided to sell more than 60 properties, including Victoria Barracks in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane
#Seychelles #Africa × #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.03.2026 Palestinians hope for more after limited Rafah crossing opening – video. About 20,000 Palestinian children and adults needing medical care hope to leave the devastated territory via the crossing, according to Gaza health officials
#Health #Africa × #Palestine #Asia
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.02.2026 Nick Cater obituary. Other lives: Journalist and media officer for charities including Sport Aid and Unicef
#Sport #United Kingdom #Africa × #Europe
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.02.2026 Weather tracker: Cyclone Fytia in Madagascar kills several people and floods homes. Island’s first tropical storm of season may bring 150mm of rain – meanwhile, eastern Europe freezes with possible night-time lows of -30C
#Weather #Madagascar #Africa × #Europe
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.02.2026 Israel agrees to limited reopening of Rafah border crossing in Gaza. Tens of thousands of ill and wounded Palestinians await evacuation as diplomatic efforts inch forward
#Africa × #Asia #Israel
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.02.2026 Suffolk serial killer Steve Wright admits murdering 17-year-old in 1999. The 67-year-old pleads guilty at Old Bailey to killing Victoria Hall, his sixth murder victim
#Seychelles #United Kingdom #Africa × #Europe
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.02.2026 Victorian opposition leader pulls out of event headlined by Barnaby Joyce after premier accuses her of ‘cosying up’ to One Nation. Exclusive: Jess Wilson will no longer speak at Across Victoria Alliance conference in Horsham due to ‘unavoidable scheduling conflict’
#Seychelles #Africa × #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.02.2026 Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt reopens for limited travel – latest updates. Rafah crossing in the south, which has largely been closed since May 2024, has reopened for those travelling on foot
#Africa × #Asia #Egypt #Israel
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.02.2026 ‘You take what you can and run’: families describe harrowing journey to escape fighting in DRC. Thousands who fled the advance of M23 rebels now face the threat of disease and shortages in Burundi’s overcrowded refugee camps
#Africa × #Burundi
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.02.2026 International law meant to limit effects of war at breaking point, study finds. Report covering 23 conflicts over last 18 months concludes more than 100,000 civilians have been killed as war crimes rage out of control
#Africa ×
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.01.2026 Victoria police launch new search for fugitive Dezi Freeman based on intelligence derived from ‘gunshot’. More than 100 police and volunteers to join targeted five-day search of Mount Buffalo national park
#Seychelles #Africa × #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.30.2026 More than 200 killed in coltan mine collapse in eastern DRC, officials say. Rubaya mine produces about 15% of the world’s coltan, which is processed into tantalum, used in mobile phones
#Africa ×
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.30.2026 Displacement Film Fund review – Cate Blanchett masterminds short film collection that brims with life and intensity. A set of shorts by film-makers from Afghanistan, Iran, Ukraine, Syria and Somalia are shocking, funny and mysterious in equal measure
#Somalia #Africa × #Ukraine #Europe #Asia #Iran #Syria #Afghanistan
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.30.2026 Islamic State claims attack on international airport and airbase in Niger. Motorcycle-riding militants launch strikes using heavy weaponry and drones, damaging planes belonging to Ivorian carrier and Togolese airline
#Aviation #Islamic #Religious #Ivory Coast #Niger #Africa × #Togo
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.30.2026 South Africa expels top Israeli diplomat over ‘insulting attacks’ on president. Ariel Seidman declared persona non grata and given 72 hours to leave country after remarks on social media
#Politics #Africa × #South Africa #Asia #Israel
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.30.2026 Seven in 10 Africans are under 30 – invest in them and they will change the world | Monica Geingos. The countries that invest in youth now will be the ones that define global innovation in the coming years
#Africa ×
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.29.2026 ‘Unjust and inhuman’: how royal family ignored a Black abolitionist’s plea to end the slave trade. In this adapted extract from The Crown’s Silence, which examines the royal family’s links with slavery from Elizabeth I to the present, Ottobah Cugoano directly appeals to the monarchy – but is met wit
#United Kingdom #Africa × #USA #Europe #North America
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.29.2026 Nursing a skink: endangered alpine lizard numbers set to rise after Omeo falls pregnant in Victoria. Eleven guthega skinks could soon become 13 thanks to a captive breeding program in the Alpine national park
#Seychelles #Africa ×
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.29.2026 Planes hit by gunfire and blasts heard at airport in Niger capital – reports. Source says two aircraft on ground ‘destroyed’ although authorities yet to comment on situation
#Aviation #Niger #Africa ×
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.28.2026 ActionAid sponsorship schemes: helping children and women or a colonial relic? | Letters. Letters: Readers respond to the news that the development charity is rethinking such schemes as they carry racialised, paternalistic undertones
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