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Boy had sought court order to force his return, after parents took him on trip to Ghana and returned without himA British teenager whose parents left him in Ghana, fearing he was at risk from “gang culture” in the UK, should stay there until at least the end of his GCSE exams, a judge sitting at London’s high court has ruled.The boy took legal action against his parents, seeking a […]

António Guterres calls for the violence to end but there appears little appetite for ceasefire proposed by USThe UN secretary general, António Guterres, has said the war in Sudan is spiralling out of control as he called for a halt to the fighting and an end to the violence.The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which are reportedly backed by the United Arab Emirates, seized El Fasher in Darfur last week after […]

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.This week, from 2022: Kenya’s great lakes are flooding, in a devastating and long-ignored environmental disaster that is displacing hundreds of thousands of peopleBy Carey Baraka. Read by Reice Weathers Continue reading...Source: www.theguardian.comRead full article

I was bruised by my experience of being kept out of an exclusively male political club – now my focus is on getting women into power in AfricaIt’s six weeks since the electoral commission of Uganda announced the eight candidates for the country’s 2026 presidential election. The fact that they are all men is an outrage – and entirely unsurprising.Of the 221 people who expressed an interest in running for […]