Five things you need to know today: Former Zimbabwean president Mugabe dies aged 95
Plus, Rees-Mogg apologises for comparing doctor to anti-vaccine campaigner, John Major urges Johnson to sack Cummings.
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The ANC is poised for re-election, and smaller parties are furious
The South African election has left major parties bruised and smaller parties furious. The counting of Wednesday’s election will take…
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The Brexiteers need to realise that the Commonwealth is not coming to save them
The Commonwealth does about a sixth of the trade with the UK that the EU does – and has neither…
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Mozambique is struggling to cope with Cyclone Idai, and UK-based banks are partly to blame
Banks loaned £1.5bn to Mozambique, helping trigger an economic crisis. Now, the country’s debt could thwart reconstruction in the wake of Cyclone…
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Why has tropical cyclone Idai been so destructive?
Storms have no regard for political boundaries.
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Oscar Pistorius sentenced to six years for murder
The sentencing brings to an end the three and a half year legal battle.
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Britain’s violent conscription of African soldiers is finally coming to light
During World War II, the British army press-ganged African men and stationed them in battlefields far from home. Today, their…
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Peter Martell’s moving evocation of South Sudan’s slide into civil war
As British ambassador to South Sudan from 2015 to 2017, I was there for the second disastrous collapse of the…
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