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Africa

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  Guinea-Bissau military takes ‘total control’ amid election chaos

  Officers say they are closing borders and suspending poll as president and main rival both claim victory
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  The Long Wave

  ‘Ignoring minorities is our original sin’: the complex roots of Nigeria’s security crisis

  Criminal exploitation, economic opportunism and religious persecution are all factors in a broader picture of insecurity

  Newsletter

• • ‘They killed my only son’: the young west African footballers scammed by fake agents

  • Thrill ride: the best of Africa Foto Fair 2025 – in pictures

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  • Book of the day

    Slow Poison by Mahmood Mamdani review – can you really rehabilitate Idi Amin?

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  Nigerian schoolgirls rescued after mass abduction in Kebbi

  The president of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, said all 24 of the girls kidnapped last week had been rescued
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  Other lives

  Simon Rietbergen obituary

  Other lives: Expert who worked to protect endangered forests, especially in Africa

• • Jacob Zuma’s daughter accused of tricking men into fighting for Russia in Ukraine

  • Antibiotic resistance: how a pioneering trial is using old drugs to save babies from sepsis

  • Rhino review – Tom Hardy channels David Attenborough in mission to save Kenya’s rhinos

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  Jimmy Cliff obituary
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  UK rejects Nigerian request to deport former politican jailed for organ trafficking
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  Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in 12,000 years
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  How rolling sand dunes are creeping up on last remaining oases on edge of Sahara

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  Cyril Ramaphosa closes G20 summit after US boycott and handover row

  South African president bangs gavel after rejecting plan from US, which hosts next meeting, for him to hand over to junior official

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  Security fears rise in Nigeria after more than 300 schoolchildren kidnapped
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  South Africa declares gender-based violence a national disaster amid G20 protests

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  Nigeria reels after 215 children taken in second mass school abduction in a week

  Twelve teachers also kidnapped from Catholic school amid threats from Trump to intervene over ‘Christian genocide’
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  Photos of the day

  Women on strike and a Mexican parade: photos of the day – Friday

  The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

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  South Africa’s dispute with US escalates amid row over G20 handover event

  Trump press secretary accuses Cyril Ramaphosa of ‘running his mouth’ after US boycott of summit in Johannesburg