This week in Africa, protesters built barricades in Sudan's capital Khartoum as demonstrations against the military coup continued; Cambridge University handed a bronze statue looted in the 19th century back to Nigerian officials, and a Paris museum also returned sculptures to the modern-day state of Benin in a ceremony attended by French President Emmanuel Macron; Africa's chief COP26 negotiator Tanguy Gahouma-Bekale outlined the continent's goals ahead of the UN climate conference in Glasgow; and in the northern Senegalese city of Saint-Louis, dire warnings about the risk of rising sea levels due to climate change are a grim reality where seafront residents in the historic fishing quarter are abandoning their homes to the encroaching Atlantic Ocean.

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