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IOC’s first female president faces significant challenges including handling Donald Trump’s power and protecting women’s sports

Namibia’s first president and ‘founding father’ who led the fight for independence from the apartheid regime in South Africa

Pattni featured heavily in Al Jazeera’s Gold Mafia investigation, which looked at gold smuggling in Southern Africa.

In tonight's edition, At least 78 people died when an overcrowded boat capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo on Thursday. Also, Kinshasa will begin a vaccination campaign on Saturday, three days later than planned. And The Zimbabwean government will this month pay an initial $20 million to foreign white…

Munya Chawawa pits his trademark raps and skits against interviews with a man denounced as ‘human scum’ – and a defector who ended up in a detention centre for decades. What emerges, against the odds, is witty and very well done

The ‘fastest man on the internet’ has a new show about North Korea. He talks brainwashing, how we’re all suffering from apocalypse anxiety – and why the west is the real ‘big bad wolf’

Francis Ford Coppola’s grandiose, dystopian sci-fi is finally unleashed, and the young City bankers go green with Lord Muck

At independence, most African states had two legislative chambers – a lower and upper chamber – in their parliament. African leaders saw that as a colonial legacy and as inefficient, so most states removed the upper chambers. Before 1990, only two states kept these bicameral parliaments: Liberia and Nigeria.

Police flood Harare’s streets in anticipation of protests on the eve of Southern African Development Community meeting.