Africa
Long road to the big screen
Alex Duval Smith: 'Bokbuster' about Nelson Mandela raises questions of just how far South Africa has come
Inside Africa
Independent Appeal: Whole new world is just a click away for children of Ethiopia
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
Computer Aid International, one of our appeal charities, is transforming lives in Africa by providing schools with PCs. Paul Vallely reports from Addis Ababa.
Doctors' massacre highlights medical crisis in Somalia
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Public anger spills over into protests over suicide bombing
Building for diplomacy: Our men in a mess
Monday, 7 December 2009
The new British Embassy building in Algiers is a striking piece of modernist design. But cutbacks mean it could well be the last of its kind, warns Jay Merrick
Independent Appeal: Africa's Schindler
Monday, 7 December 2009
Claire Soares learns how one man has saved thousands from the clutches of lethal militias.
The secrets of Tutankhamun's decaying tomb
Monday, 7 December 2009
Guy Adams: Millions of visitors to the Egyptian king's chamber are destroying the wonder they came to see.
Guinea leader 'doing fine' after shooting
Monday, 7 December 2009
Morocco's chief military doctor says the president of Guinea is doing fine after surgery following an assassination attempt.
Guinea plunged into chaos
Saturday, 5 December 2009
With military leader recovering after a gun attack, the African state awaits next chapter in its turbulent history.
Somalis with al-Qa'ida link deny hotel blast
Saturday, 5 December 2009
Somalia's Security Minister has blamed Islamist militants linked to al-Qa'ida for a bomb attack that killed 22 people at a university graduation ceremony at a hotel in the Somali capital.
Somalian ministers killed in hotel bomb attack
Friday, 4 December 2009
Suicide bomber dressed as veiled woman kills 19 people at graduation ceremony
Going home: orphans of the gorilla massacre
Friday, 4 December 2009
Two baby gorillas who survived an attack in a Congo national park have made their first move back to the wild.
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