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Weather tracker: hail covers parts of Tunisia and Algeria like snow

Hail accumulations of up to 3cm were reported in Oum Ladjoul and Hammam Sokhna in Algeria, and there were hailstones of up to 3cm in diameter in Makthar, Tunisia.

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South African politician Julius Malema given five-year jail term for gun offence

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South African politician Julius Malema given five-year jail term for gun offence

The South African leftwing politician Julius Malema has been sentenced to five years in prison for firing a rifle in the air at a political rally in 2018.

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More than £1bn pledged for Sudan as humanitarian crisis deepens

15bn) has been pledged for war-ravaged Sudan at a conference in Berlin, eclipsing the funding target organisers had set to help mitigate the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. German ministers had set a notional target of $1bn (£740m) in funding commitments from international donors. Inside, speaking on the event’s sidelines, Donald Trump’s senior adviser for African affairs, Massad Boulos, said the US was not taking sides in the war and that “our only concern is humanitarian”.

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Oil prices fall and markets rally on renewed hopes for peace talks

European stocks were mostly steady on Wednesday as investors weighed signals from Washington that a diplomatic breakthrough in the Iran war could be imminent. "The counterintuitive decline in crude appears driven by growing hopes that a second round of peace talks between Washington and Tehran could soon materialise, after the first attempt fizzled out," said Tim Waterer, chief market analyst at KCM Trade. Investors are betting that renewed diplomacy could prevent a prolonged surge in oil prices and inflation, allowing focus to return to corporate earnings.

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Justice denied: why families of apartheid victims are still searching for answers

Darkness had fallen on 27 June 1985 when Fort Calata, Matthew Goniwe, Sicelo Mhlauli and Sparrow Mkonto set off on the 150-mile drive back from a meeting of anti-apartheid activists in the South African city.

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UK to call for end to Sudan bloodshed at Berlin talks on third anniversary of war

The British foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, will urge Sudan’s warring parties to “cease bloodshed” during a major conference on Wednesday, which analysts believe is unlikely to deliver a significant step towards peace. Cooper will unveil a doubling of UK aid to £15m for Sudanese frontline responders such as the grassroots volunteer network known as Emergency Response Rooms. On Tuesday the UN said nearly 700 civilians have been reported killed in drone strikes in Sudan since January.

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Survivors ask why busy market bombed in Nigerian anti-terror campaign

Survivors and observers have questioned the Nigerian military’s rationale for a devastating airstrike on a busy market that killed as many as 200 people, many of them civilians. ” Nigeria’s military has killed at least 500 civilians in airstrikes since 2017, according to the Associated Press. At least 115 people were killed in 2017 when a camp housing displaced people in Borno was bombed.

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Anger at ‘bloody unacceptable’ efforts to end Sudan’s war as conflict enters fourth year

Speaking to the Guardian on the eve of the third anniversary of the war, Denise Brown expressed her concern over the apparent lack of political urgency to end a conflict that has forced 14 million Sudanese to flee their homes. Photograph: Darfur Network for Human Rights Asked to sum up a crisis that has left 33 million in need of assistance and is estimated to have killed at least 150,000, the UN’s head in Sudan said: “Bloody unacceptable is what it is. Overall, the war has set Sudan’s economy back more than 30 years according to a detailed assessment by the UN Development Programme and the Institute for Security Studies, which also found that an additional 34 million people could be pushed into deprivation if the conflict continues until 2030.

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Serbia's Vučić clashes with Péter Magyar over Putin 'godfather' remark

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Pope Leo visits Algeria in sign of Africa’s growing importance to Catholic church

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Weather tracker: hail covers parts of Tunisia and Algeria like snow

South African politician Julius Malema given five-year jail term for gun offence

More than £1bn pledged for Sudan as humanitarian crisis deepens

Oil prices fall and markets rally on renewed hopes for peace talks

Justice denied: why families of apartheid victims are still searching for answers

UK to call for end to Sudan bloodshed at Berlin talks on third anniversary of war

Survivors ask why busy market bombed in Nigerian anti-terror campaign

Anger at ‘bloody unacceptable’ efforts to end Sudan’s war as conflict enters fourth year

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Serbia's Vučić clashes with Péter Magyar over Putin 'godfather' remark

Chagos Islands treaty is now ‘impossible to agree at political level’, UK minister says

Pope Leo visits Algeria in sign of Africa’s growing importance to Catholic church

And the election winner is … the candidate who can afford Africa’s soaring nomination fees

Weather tracker: hail covers parts of Tunisia and Algeria like snow

South African politician Julius Malema given five-year jail term for gun offence

More than £1bn pledged for Sudan as humanitarian crisis deepens

Oil prices fall and markets rally on renewed hopes for peace talks

Justice denied: why families of apartheid victims are still searching for answers

UK to call for end to Sudan bloodshed at Berlin talks on third anniversary of war

Survivors ask why busy market bombed in Nigerian anti-terror campaign

Anger at ‘bloody unacceptable’ efforts to end Sudan’s war as conflict enters fourth year

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Serbia's Vučić clashes with Péter Magyar over Putin 'godfather' remark

Chagos Islands treaty is now ‘impossible to agree at political level’, UK minister says

Pope Leo visits Algeria in sign of Africa’s growing importance to Catholic church

And the election winner is … the candidate who can afford Africa’s soaring nomination fees

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