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Photographs give unprecedented insight into the lives and humanity of those involved in the Ugandan rebel movement.
Children play on a see-saw at Nyumbani AIDS orphanage on the outskirts of the Kenya capital Nairobi.
EPA/Stephen Morrison
Kenya announced plans in 2017 for a long-term action plan to end the institutionalisation of children.
Graffiti bullheads carved on the temple walls.
RTI: Suzanne Davis and Janelle Batkin-Hall/IKAP, 2016
Visitors to these sites had one particular religious ritual that may strike some as strange: they carved graffiti in important and sacred places.
Ethiopia’s national carrier is a key link between China and Africa.
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The aviation ambitions of several African countries are linked to Chinese investment.
Trachoma can lead to blindness if left untreated.
Alaine Kathryn Knipes/CDC
Trachoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness.
A health worker prepares to administer Ebola vaccination in the north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Uganda is the testing ground for a new vaccine that could work on more strains of the Ebola virus and other haemorrhagic fevers.
Nigerian soldiers clearing Boko Haram camps in Borno State. The government has contracted private security companies to help.
EPA/Stringer
Private military and security companies are increasingly being contracted in Africa. But there are big gaps in understanding their impact.
Senegalese women cast their ballots in the presidential elections in February.
EPA-EFE/Nic Bothma
Africa’s democracies have grown stronger during a period in which the world is backsliding on democracy.
Leishmaniasis is caused by a parasite that is carried by a female sandfly.
CDC/ Frank Collins
Each year 50 000 people from 89 countries, in every continent except Antarctica, die from leishmaniasis, an ancient neglected disease.
Sudanese protesters at a sit-in, in Khartoum, Sudan on June 20, 2019. A government-imposed internet blackout has restricted information flow out of the country.
Hussein Malla/AP Photo
A government-imposed internet blackout in Sudan is the latest in a series of internet shutdowns as a means to quell dissent.
A child about to have his rotten tooth capped at the author’s clinic in Khartoum, Sudan.
A cheap and simple technique could revolutionise treatment for tooth decay, especially in poor countries.
Women have played important political, social and economic roles throughout Sudan’s history.
EPA-EFE/Morwan Ali
Ensuring meaningful participation of women in the transitional government can be a first step toward achieving gender equality in a future Sudan.
Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces evolved from the Janjaweed militia that once terrorised the people of Darfur.
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The Janjaweed militia first came into play when Omar al-Bashir’s government deployed it in Darfur
Sudan’s military is working hard to retain control of the country.
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When the establishment retains some leverage over reformers change can be slow, superficial, and short-lived. Sudan appears to be a textbook case of this scenario.
In this Sunday, June 9, 2019 frame grab from Sudan TV, Lt. Gen. Jamaleddine Omar, from the ruling military council, speaks on a broadcast.
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History shows that when government elites believe that there is a risk that they may lose control of the capital, they escalate targeted violence against civilians.
Supporters of Sudan’s military rulers rally in Khartoum.
EPA-EFE-Marwan Ali
The killing of protesters by the Sudanese military signifies its reluctance to hand over power, as demanded by the African Union.
Sudan’s former president, Omar al-Bashir.
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The African Union and its member states are creating their own interpretation of immunity which will protect its heads of state from courts abroad.
Protesters outside the army headquarters in Khartoum, Sudan.
EPA-EFE/Stringer
The African Union’s policy offers no wriggle room for a discretionary response to coups, a scourge that imperils the consolidation of democracy.
Sudanese protesters at a demonstration outside the army headquarters in Khartoum.
EPA/Stringer
There are challenges that Sudan must overcome before power is transferred to its people.
Protesters in Sudan demanding the end of military rule.
EPA-EFE/Stringer
The immediate cause of the economic crisis that brought many thousands of Sudanese onto the streets and continued beyond al-Bashir’s downfall lay in the structure of the economy itself.