🌍 Africa bears an increasingly heavy burden from climate change and disproportionately high costs for essential climate adaptation, according to the latest #StateOfClimate in Africa report. 📢 Press Release: wmo.int/media/news/afr…

Ugandan Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei has died, days after she was doused in petrol and set on fire by her boyfriend. She was 33 reut.rs/47gHsTB  1/5

Rainy season sunsets 👌

Michaela DePrince, an acclaimed ballerina, died on Tuesday at 29. She had lead roles in major ballets, including “The Nutcracker” and “Coppelia,” and she was a soloist in “Cinderella” and George Balanchine’s “Tarantella.” nyti.ms/4e4t4QT

Mali capital under control after insurgents attack, army says reuters.com/world/africa/g…

'Everything is lost' says father, as Senegal repatriates citizens escaping Lebanon reut.rs/3YgnEv8

A plane downed in North Darfur had Russian crew members and was being used by the army to resupply the besieged city of al-Fashir, according to the opposing faction and documents it said were found in the wreckage. Our investigation: reuters.com/world/africa/p…

“hi mom”

Something that Tanya Talaga said a couple of weeks ago that hasn’t left me: when you think of Murray, think of the weight of hearing thousands of accounts of untold horror, and the toll it would take on your body. Think of taking that on. cbc.ca/news/politics/…

ICC sentences Malian Islamist to 10 years over Timbuktu repression reut.rs/4eI05Sl

Was supposed to be wrapping up this year’s wedding circuit with a week of festivities in southern India, but sadly India wouldn’t have me. So I am eat-pray-loving my way around Cape Verde instead.

Dakar, Dec. 1st

Gold miner Barrick threatens to freeze Mali operations in row over rules reut.rs/404R7cv

Chad says foiled attack on presidency was work of disorganised, intoxicated group reut.rs/3DNzMNU

Always jarring seeing your home country through the eyes of a foreign correspondent - or in this case, fellow Canadian Celia Hatton reporting on how immigration has become a dirty word in Canada "for the first time in most people's living memory" bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

Exclusive: Mali started flying gold stocks out of Barrick site on Saturday, sources say reuters.com/markets/commod…

How two former employees are driving Mali's hardball talks with Barrick reuters.com/markets/commod…

International year of glaciers