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Gathering dust: A haboob advances on a grove in Dongola, Sudan. These giant clouds of dust occur across the world (and on Mars and Titan, one of the moons of Saturn) but got their name in Sudan.
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Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei died on Wednesday from injuries she had sustained on Sunday, when her former boyfriend poured petrol on her and set her alight. She became the third woman athlete to die at the hands of a man in western Kenya in the past three years.
When President Samia ascended to power, she promised to chart a more democratic course for the country. It’s not too late to make good on her vow, but the red flags are getting redder.
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Welcome to Issue 175 of The Continent.
No one likes to speak ill of the dead. Nonetheless, many Tanzanians breathed a quiet sigh of relief at the passing of former president John Magufuli. His successor, Samia Suluhu Hassan, initially promised to be less authoritarian. But then people started disappearing. To make this story more accessible to Tanzanian audiences, we are publishing it in English and Kiswahili.
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Be leaf: Children in Amanikro, Côte d’Ivoire craft masks in Olivier Khouadiani’s Mi Ti, ‘Head’ in Baoulé, which sees the spirit realm blurring into our own. It is part of the World Press Photo/NOOR Foundation exhibition ‘Celebrating Communities’ which opens on 14 September at Fondation Donwahi in Abidjan.
Dressed in a Spider-Man costume on the streets of Addis Ababa, an unnamed man engages in small acts of kindness to the people around him: mending old clothes, dusting the shoes of passers-by, and serenading onlookers.
Diamonds account for 30% of Botswana’s entire economy. But lab-grown gems mean less demand for ones dug out of the soil. For now, Botswana is trying to get more control over the money still to be made from its precious stones.
The Microsoft founder wields enormous influence over agriculture in Africa. He may be trying to end hunger, but critics say he is ‘playing god’ – and getting it wrong.
