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A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond: Esa Alexander / Reuters A reveller sees the bright side of life at the Cape Town Pride celebration in South Africa on Saturday. Luc Gnago / […]

More than 200 unarmed civilians have been killed in a cluster of villages in Sudan over three days by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that is involved in a brutal conflict with the military, a local rights group has

Election day has arrived in Ghana, where a debt crisis and high living costs mean the economy is uppermost in the minds of many voters. The West African nation is guaranteed a new president as Nana Akufo-Addo steps down after

Burkina Faso’s armed forces say they are investigating a gruesome video that purports to show military volunteers hacking apart a dead body with machetes, while gloating to the camera. Work is under way to verify the video and the people

AFP Thousands of Sahrawi people are living in refugee camps in Algeria France’s President Emmanuel Macron has told Morocco’s parliament that he believes Western Sahara should be under Moroccan sovereignty, and has pledged to invest French money there. Western Sahara

At least 40 Chadian soldiers have been killed after their base was attacked on Sunday evening, the presidency says. President Mahamat Déby has ordered a counter-mission to track down the culprits, according to a statement from his office. The attack

At least 21 people have been killed and more than 70 others wounded by shelling at a busy market in south-eastern Sudan, a doctors’ union says. The Sudan Doctors Network said the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were responsible for