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‘I have searched and searched for help’: the Sudanese women left alone to live hand to mouth in Chad’s desert camps
ByKaamil Ahmed in Metche October 8, 2025

As the war in Sudan pushes more people across the border, malnutrition is on the rise in Chad’s remote settlements where 86% of the refugees are women and childrenFor hours, jolting along the waterlogged dirt track to the hospital, 18-year-old Makka Ib…

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‘I have searched and searched for help’: the Sudanese women left alone to live hand to mouth in Chad’s desert camps
ByKaamil Ahmed in Metche October 8, 2025

As the war in Sudan pushes more people across the border, malnutrition is on the rise in Chad’s remote settlements where 86% of the refugees are women and childrenFor hours, jolting along the waterlogged dirt track to the hospital, 18-year-old Makka Ib…

Read More ‘I have searched and searched for help’: the Sudanese women left alone to live hand to mouth in Chad’s desert camps
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ICC convicts former Sudan militia leader for war crimes in Darfur
ByGuardian Staff and agencies in the Hague October 6, 2025

Janjaweed commander Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman, known as Ali Kushayb, found guilty over atrocitiesThe international criminal court has convicted a leader of the Janjaweed militia of playing a leading role in a campaign of atrocities committed in th…

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‘The fear was immense’: al-Shabaab exploits fragmented politics to reclaim land in Somalia
ByMohamed Gabobe in Mogadishu and Jason Burke October 4, 2025

With Islamist militant group 40km from Mogadishu, a ‘strategic stalemate’ has been reached, but some fear worst is yet to comeOne night in early July, Maryan Abdikadir Geedi decided it was finally time to abandon her small shop in the town of Moqokori …

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‘The fear was immense’: al-Shabaab exploits fragmented politics to reclaim land in Somalia
ByMohamed Gabobe in Mogadishu and Jason Burke October 4, 2025

With Islamist militant group 40km from Mogadishu, a ‘strategic stalemate’ has been reached, but some fear worst is yet to comeOne night in early July, Maryan Abdikadir Geedi decided it was finally time to abandon her small shop in the town of Moqokori …

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Hundreds arrested at anti-corruption demonstrations across Morocco – video
ByMiddle East and north Africa | The Guardian October 2, 2025

Thousands of young protesters took to the streets in some of the largest demonstrations in the country in years. Gen Z demonstrators originally organised on the online platform Discord after eight pregnant women died in hospital in Agadir last month. T…

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First deaths in Morocco’s youth-led anti-government protests as police open fire
ByCarlos Mureithi in Nairobi and agencies October 2, 2025

Two killed in city of Lqliâa on fifth day of demonstrations calling for social justice reforms as unrest risesTwo people were killed in the southern Moroccan city of Lqliâa on Wednesday night after security forces opened fire at protesters during demon…

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Deaths, disappearances and forced recruitment: refugees recount horrors of relentless war in Sudan
ByCarlos Mureithi in Renk October 2, 2025

Refugees who left Darfur and Khartoum for South Sudan say they feared being targeted by both sides in conflictSuba Dafallah was selling vegetables at a market in the Sudanese city of Nyala one morning in March when he got a distressing call from his si…

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Cats, coffins and sick notes: discovering Egypt’s forgotten workers in broken pottery
ByEsther Addley October 2, 2025

Cambridge exhibition showcases the lives of skilled workers who built some of the most famous sites in ancient EgyptMore than 3,200 years ago at a workshop near Thebes in Egypt, a man called Nakhtamun grabbed a broken piece of pottery and scribbled on …

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Violence breaks out in Morocco as anti-government protests rage for fourth day
ByAssociated Press in Rabat October 1, 2025

‘Gen Z’ protesters accuse government of prioritising spending on World Cup stadiums over social servicesAnti-government demonstrations gripped Morocco for the fourth night in a row as young people filled the streets of cities and destruction and violen…

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