Coronavirus in South Africa: Deciding who lives and dies in a Cape Town township

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Without enough supplies of oxygen or staff, health workers in South Africa are making some difficult decisions.

Africa’s week in pictures: 26 June – 2 July 2020

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A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent.

Finding the ‘invisible’ millions who are not on maps

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How open map data is filling in the world's missing maps and helping trace the spread of disease.

Botswana: Lab tests to solve mystery of hundreds of dead elephants

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Some 350 elephant carcasses have been spotted in Botswana's Okavango Delta since May.

France to return skulls of 24 Algerian anti-colonial fighters, Algiers says

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They were killed resisting French forces in the 19th Century and their skulls displayed in a museum.

France to rename streets after African WW2 heroes

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Mayors are urged to honour African soldiers in streets and squares who fought for France .

France suspends Nato mission role amid Libya row

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Paris says Turkey targeted a French frigate in the Mediterranean - a claim Ankara strongly denies.

Khayelitsha: Cape Town police suspended for evicting naked man in South Africa

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Their actions in a township were branded degrading and inhumane by South Africa's housing minister.

Ghana vs Uruguay: “I can’t forgive Suarez – he cheated”

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Ten years on from being a handball away from making the World Cup semi-finals, two of Ghana's players still feel the pain.

Hachalu Hundessa: Ethiopia singer buried amid ethnic unrest

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Popular musician Hachalu Hundessa is buried as troops are deployed in the capital to quell tensions.