Olivia Acland
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The Economist: Congo-Brazzaville’s president is re-elected after his rival dies of covid-19
The Economist: All helmet no mettle
The Economist: A frightening night in Goma under its erupting volcano
The Economist: Thousands of Congolese have fled Goma, fearing lava and deadly gas
The Economist: Congo’s president cuts free of his would-be puppetmaster
The Telegraph: Greece’s electricity grid on brink of collapse as heatwave fuels record wildfires
The Economist: Tanzania’s police torture refugees from Burundi
The Economist: "Tree trade" in Zanzibar
The Economist: Cobalt thieves in Congo
The Economist: In Congo’s gold rush, the money is in beer and brothels
The Economist: The bulldozer rumbles on
The Telegraph: Roman fast food restaurant recently unearthed at Pompeii
The Economist: Nigeria’s demand for fancy wigs fuels a global trade
The Economist: Where dead men vote - Burundi's election
The Economist: An aide to Congo’s president gets 20 years for graft
The Economist: The race to feed Africa during a pandemic
The Economist: A mayor reforms Sierra Leone's rotten property tax system
The Economist: The toils and spoils of Congo’s crocodile-killers
BBC world service: From Our Own Correspondent - Lockdown in Congo
Reuters: DR Congo locks down mining area, some workers repatriated over coronavirus
The Economist: Covid-19 raises the risks of violent conflict
The Economist: Correspondent's Diary - Congo’s smugglers hustle through lockdown
The Economist: A chocolate factory in a conflict zone
The Economist: The postman never rings at all - why delivering mail in Congo is so hard
The Economist: Follow the bottle - how to get beer around a vast country with no roads
The Economist: A year of Felix Tshisekedi - not much to celebrate
The Economist: Trial and errors - a warlord's trial aims to end impunity in eastern Congo
The Economist: That shrinking feeling - Congo’s rainforest is getting smaller
BBC World Service: From our own correspondent - My trip on the Congo River
The Economist: Grubs up - why we should all be eating more bugs
The Economist: His dark materials, Freddy Tsimba transmutes his country’s bloody history into art
The Economist: Guns and tonic - the largest quinine plantations are in eastern Congo
The Economist: Who’s the boss? Congo’s new president, Félix Tshisekedi, does not call the shots
The Economist: An entrepreneur brings professional grieving to eastern Congo
The Economist: Why Ebola clinics are being attacked
The Telegraph: Mystery as plane carrying Russian arms smugglers crashes in Congo
The Economist: Kimbanguists believe Congo’s suffering is a sign of the apocalypse
The Economist: The ballad of King D
The Economist: Glencore's attempt at reinventing mining has run into trouble
The New Humanitarian: Hunger, measles, cholera, and conflict: Ebola not the only killer ravaging Congo
The New York Times: Ebola Outbreak Reaches Major City in Congo, Renewing Calls for Emergency Order (photo only)
The Economist: Hawkers are profiting from Congo’s internet blackout
The Economist: Ituri's injuries - Killings in Congo’s north-east spark fears of a return to war
The New Humanitarian: Machete attacks and forest escapes, as conflict returns to Congo’s troubled Ituri
The Economist: The struggle to get Ebola vaccine to rebel-held areas of Congo
The Economist: Félix Tshisekedi’s presidency of Congo begins inauspiciously
The Telegraph: Ebola treatment centres in DRC set ablaze as second-worst outbreak infects 1,000
The Economist: The least blessed cheesemakers are in Congo
The Economist: Congo has a shambolic, unfair election, two years late
The Economist: Congo declares Félix Tshisekedi president. Voters suspect a stitch-up
Reuters: Main figures in Congo's new government (photo only)
The Economist: Amid allegations of fraud, Congo’s high court confirms a new president
The Economist: Joseph Kabila says he will not run again in Congo
BBC online: Ebola crosses a porous border into Uganda
BBC World Service: From Our Own Correspondent - Ebola spreads to Uganda
The Guardian: Inside Congo's fashion week
The New York Times: Ebola Attacked Congo Again. But Now Congo Seems to Be Winning (Photos only)
The Economist: Kinshasa’s traffic police make 80% of their income “informally”
The Sunday Times: Ebola spreads through Eastern Congo
Reuters: Congo approves experimental treatment as cases rise (photos only)
Reuters: On the frontlines of the Ebola outbreak (photo only)
The Economist: Battling Ebola in a war zone in Congo
The New York Times: Congo Official Says 2nd Ebola Victim in Goma Has Died (photo only)
The Economist: Burundi’s “Eternal supreme guide” enforces an “election tax”
The Economist: Congo's long-awaited election is delayed
The Economist: A puppet is set to replace the president
The Economist: Joseph Kabila says he will not run again in Congo
The Economist: The 2018 Nobel peace prize is awarded to a surgeon and a former slave
The Economist: The Nobel committee shines a spotlight on rape in conflict
The Economist: For whom the bells toll
Roads & Kingdoms: Know before you go - city guide to Freetown (photos only)
The Economist: Battling Ebola in a war zone
The Sunday Times Magazine: Married, raped, abandoned: Syrian girls sold to Saudi men
Al Jazeera 360 video: Sierra Leone's fish stocks plundered by foreign trawlers
The Economist: Sierra Leone’s new president has made big promises
BBC World Service, From Our Own Correspondent: Changing attitudes towards China
BBC Stories: The country where children fear election time
The New York Times: Sierra Leone’s Opposition Leader Is Sworn In as President (photos only)
Voice of America: Tensions Mount as Sierra Leone Awaits Poll Results (radio package)
Reuters: Sierra Leone heads to the polls to seek successor to Koroma (photos only)
Voice of America: Tensions Mount as Sierra Leone Awaits Poll Results (text and photos)
Reuters: Sierra Leone votes for new leader in hope of ending economic crisis (photos only)
The Economist: The painful origins of many creole languages
BBC In Pictures: The street dancers who dream big
The Economist: Why Sierra Leone is running out of fish
BBC In Pictures: Life after the mudslide
Al Jazeera: After the mudslides - Sierra Leone's body collectors
BBC Africa: Sierra Leone mudslide - 'I lost everything'
Deutsche Welle Radio: Underage prostitution in Freetown, Sierra Leone
BBC World Service, From Our Own Correspondent: Displaced by mudslide
Al Jazeera (VR, 360 video): Abdulai Idris after the mudslide
DW: Sierra Leone mudslide victims wait for help
BBC World Service, From Our Own Correspondent: A visit to the Hotel Ducor
The Economist: Aid brought Liberia back from the brink
NPR Goats and Soda: A Different Kind Of Pickup - Prostitutes Turn To Driving Motorbike Taxis
BBC: In pictures - Young and Pregnant in Sierra Leone
The Economist: Liberia's bold experiment in school reform
BBC: In pictures - One man's search for diamonds
Al Jazeera: Devil boy - down's syndrome in Sierra Leone
Deutsche Welle: Sierra Leone mudslide victims still wait for help
BBC radio 4: From our own correspondent - Drinking palm wine in Sierra Leone
The Economist: Call it in
Al Jazeera: The lingering shadow of the ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone
The Economist: A pilgrim's tale
The New Statesman: Businesses closing in "the jungle", Calais
Reuters: Farmers seek independent inquiry into controversial Sierra Leone palm oil deal
The Economist: Amber for recovery
1843: Facebook flirting in Sierra Leone
BBC Radio 4: From Our Own Correspondent - The sea cucumber trade in Sierra Leone
The Evening Standard: Ebola survivor almost buried alive (photos only)
BBC: In pictures - The barbers of freetown
The Telegraph: Unsung female heroes of ebola
The Telegraph: Congolese crocodile hunters forced to wrestle more dangerous beast after over-fishing
The Guardian: Ebola leaves a painful legacy for survivors
The Economist: Silver in the deep
Vice News: Ebola ended FGM in Sierra Leone but now it's back
BBC: In pictures - Fishing in Sierra Leone
BBC World Service: From Our Own Correspondent - Syrian refugees move to Scotland
The Times: China pays for British school children to learn Mandarin
The Guardian: Forget Payday Lenders - there's a much better way to borrow
The Times: Indian doctor sues husband who 'tried to make her abort twin girls'
The New Statesman: Meet the Syrian refugees being housed on a remote Scottish island
The New Statesman: "I thought it was a kidney exam": Are doctors illegally pre-natal testing in India?
The Telegraph: Magician's colony facing demolition
The Telegraph: Indian doctor fights landmark case to highlight girl deficit