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Bassem Abudagga losing hope after being told wife must go to visa application centre, of which none remain in Gaza

Family friend, sources in Russia and Syria, and leaked data help give rare insight into life of dictator’s reclusive household

This is a powerful story of debt and obligation set against the tourism boom in post-colonial Tanzania

The Nobel laureate’s wonderful new novel connects a trio of east African teens as they come of age, moving from small-scale dramas to wide-ranging social panoramas

I’ve just finished a story about a man who has everything,” says Karim, the ostensible hero of Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 11th novel, set in 1990s Tanzania. “How do you think the story will end?” he asks Badar, his mother’s servant boy, in a cruel taunt disguised as a…

With the rise of language learning apps, the Wolof Academy is stepping up to meet the demand by offering online courses and virtual classes of Wolof, the language spoken by almost 80 percent of Senegal's population.

The Aga Khan IV has been laid to rest in Egypt in a private ceremony

4/5 There are terrific performances, puppets and plenty of shagging in this adaptation of Hanif Kureishi’s novel

Thousands rally in Washington, DC, to call for end to Gaza war and rebuke the Israeli prime minister as ‘war criminal’.