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Cape Town fights off a baboon invasion

Aggressive tactics used to scare off the animals have set humans against simians and neighbour against neighbour

David Pilling

The US president’s attacks on the country might actually unite its people

Ed Sheeran is right — the Christmas classic is painfully out of step with reality, much to the detriment of the continent

The conflict that has displaced 10mn people is made more intractable by proxy players and tangled objectives