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Eswatini receives 2 more US deportees under a controversial third-country deal

• Aug 28, 2026 06:02 am

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Two migrants deported from the United States arrived in Eswatini, authorities in the southern African country said,…

Drone strikes kill 8 civilians in Sudan’s North Kordofan, group says

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• Aug 28, 2026 06:16 am

Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo spreads to 2 new health zones with a total of 60 areas now affected

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• Aug 28, 2026 05:57 am

Oyo Nyimba, Ugandan ‘boy king’ who mesmerized world leaders, dies at 34

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• Aug 28, 2026 05:51 am

In Nigeria’s troubled north, a bustling nightlife lives with a morality police and insecurity

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• Aug 27, 2026 11:06 pm

Congo begins vaccinations to fight the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history

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• Aug 27, 2026 04:17 pm

Zambia opposition leader sought refuge following disputed elections. Now he’s accused of treason

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• Aug 27, 2026 03:18 pm

Mauritania intercepts a migrant boat with 161 aboard, including 17 children

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• Aug 27, 2026 03:11 pm

Parents and teachers in Congo urge delay of school resumption as Ebola outbreak rages on

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• Aug 27, 2026 10:26 am

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Parents and teachers at the epicenter of Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak are urging authorities to delay…

Kidnappers in Nigeria collected more than $5 million in ransoms in a year, analysts say

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• Aug 27, 2026 08:40 am

Tanzania’s resigning vice president expelled from the governing party, deepening test to democracy

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• Aug 27, 2026 05:57 am

Former head of Rwanda’s presidential guard dies in prison, his brother says

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• Aug 26, 2026 08:26 am

Tanzania’s vice president resigns in test to the country’s democracy

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• Aug 26, 2026 05:50 am

A Kenyan mother bled for hours after childbirth and died as healthcare remains weak

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• Aug 25, 2026 10:08 pm

Liberia’s ex-vice president will await trial on drug trafficking and other charges in prison

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• Aug 25, 2026 03:24 pm

Sudanese medical group accuses rebel group of killing 27 people

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• Aug 25, 2026 11:52 am

Armed men ambush a patrol in South Sudan and kill 2 UN peacekeepers

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• Aug 24, 2026 10:37 am

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Armed men ambushed a patrol traveling to a remote area of South Sudan on Monday,…

Deportees who refused to exit a US flight in Liberia are sent to Equatorial Guinea

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• Aug 24, 2026 10:30 am

Congo’s Ebola outbreak records one of its highest weekly death tolls yet

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• Aug 24, 2026 06:19 am

South African police arrest 4 in the killing of former champion boxer Zolani Tete

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• Aug 24, 2026 05:35 am

A landslide at a landfill in the capital of Guinea kills 30 people, officials say

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• Aug 23, 2026 10:32 am

Central African Republic shuts down collapsed gold mining site that killed more than 100

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• Aug 22, 2026 04:29 pm

Scores of people kidnapped from a mosque as armed groups attacked multiple villages in Nigeria

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• Aug 22, 2026 11:38 am

Congo receives more than 16,000 doses of Ebola vaccine as it grapples with unprecedented outbreak

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• Aug 22, 2026 04:42 am

Nigeria orders investigation into second fake government agency

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• Aug 21, 2026 05:38 pm

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu on Friday ordered an investigation into a man accused of creating and…

Here’s data showing Congo’s Ebola outbreak is on track to surpass history’s largest

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• Aug 21, 2026 07:58 am

In Benin, malnutrition and misinformed views contribute to widespread stunting in children

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• Aug 20, 2026 11:04 pm

US has sent deportees to many African countries, the latest one being Liberia. Here’s why

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• Aug 20, 2026 01:03 pm

Cameroon’s President Biya returns after a long stay abroad raises health concerns

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• Aug 20, 2026 12:58 pm

Boat capsizes in northwestern Nigeria, leaving dozens of people dead

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• Aug 20, 2026 12:54 pm

Somalia faces another hunger crisis and the UN food agency head says it has far less funds to help

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• Aug 20, 2026 07:37 am

New opposition group protests in Tunisia after extreme heat-driven power and water cuts

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• Aug 20, 2026 07:32 am

Congo to receive 70,000 doses of Ervebo Ebola vaccine which has been effective in past outbreaks

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• Aug 20, 2026 05:01 am

The World Health Organization says Congo will receive 70,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine. This move is seen as a…

Hopes fade after Central African Republic gold mine collapse kills dozens

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• Aug 20, 2026 04:57 am

Liberia charges former vice president with drug trafficking and other offenses

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• Aug 19, 2026 03:12 pm

Death toll in mine collapse in Central African Republic rises to more than 100

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• Aug 19, 2026 03:07 pm

Deadly attacks on aid workers and contractors surge in South Sudan as UN urges protection

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• Aug 19, 2026 10:00 am

What to know about the outbreak of a rare kind of Ebola

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• Aug 19, 2026 09:56 am

UN rights chief is concerned about arrest of opposition figures in Zambia’s election

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• Aug 19, 2026 09:52 am

Congo’s Ebola outbreak reaches 5,000 cases as it outpaces response efforts at unprecedented speed

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• Aug 19, 2026 05:45 am

Mobile gold miners in eastern Congo complicate health workers’ efforts to contain Ebola

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• Aug 19, 2026 05:41 am

Eleven-year-old Isaac Batisa searches for gold at a mining site in eastern Congo to help feed his family. The site…

Safari helicopter crashes in northern Kenya, killing 7 people, including 5 Americans

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• Aug 19, 2026 05:18 am

Gold mine collapses in Central African Republic, killing at least 30 miners

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• Aug 18, 2026 03:33 pm

Liberia agrees to take 1,200 third-country deportees from the US

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• Aug 18, 2026 03:28 pm

Fighting in southwestern Somalia kills dozens of people, including 4 civilians

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• Aug 18, 2026 09:40 am

This school teaches Senegal’s brightest girls to push back against patriarchal norms

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• Aug 17, 2026 09:45 pm

Zambia President Hakainde Hichilema is declared the winner of a troubled election

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• Aug 17, 2026 07:15 pm

Congo families mourn as Ebola outbreak accelerates, in photos

Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak becomes the country’s worst with over 2,300 dead

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• Aug 17, 2026 06:40 am

12 more bodies are recovered in Zimbabwe’s ferry disaster, bringing death toll to 84

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• Aug 16, 2026 01:13 pm

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Authorities on Sunday searched for more bodies from an over loaded ferry that capsized on Lake…

Cameroon beats Malawi 3-0 to win Women’s Africa Cup of Nations for the first time

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• Aug 16, 2026 12:38 pm

Moroccan security forces arrest nearly 300 migrants trying to reach Spain’s Ceuta

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• Aug 16, 2026 12:31 pm

All Blacks storm past the Bulls 50-19 in final tune-up for South Africa tests

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• Aug 15, 2026 12:39 pm

26 more bodies are recovered in Zimbabwe’s ferry disaster, bringing death toll to 72

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• Aug 15, 2026 10:17 am

Exhausted health workers in Congo struggle to keep up as Ebola outpaces contact tracing

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• Aug 15, 2026 04:46 am

Vote counting suspended then restarted in Zambia election after attacks at polling stations

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• Aug 14, 2026 05:51 am

US missionary kidnapped in Niger is released after 9 months in captivity, his organization says

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• Aug 14, 2026 05:46 am

Families mourn victims of Zimbabwe ferry disaster as death toll rises to 46

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• Aug 13, 2026 11:56 am

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Mourners gathered in a Zimbabwe fishing town Thursday to bid farewell to dozens of people who…

Ghana, South Africa end WAFCON with wins to keep Women’s World Cup qualification hopes alive

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• Aug 13, 2026 12:44 pm

Mali separatists release 82 soldiers, including some held since a major attack in April

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• Aug 13, 2026 11:52 am

Congo’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak reaches a sixth province

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• Aug 13, 2026 08:39 am

Zambians cast ballots in a presidential election that tests incumbent’s economic reforms

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• Aug 12, 2026 10:41 pm

Survivors describe pleading to turn back before ferry capsized on Zimbabwe lake and killed 44

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• Aug 12, 2026 05:59 am

South Africa seeks reimbursement from African countries for migrant repatriations

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• Aug 12, 2026 05:56 am

Zambia awaits presidential election results. Here’s why China and the US may be interested

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• Aug 12, 2026 05:53 am

Thousands flee yearslong drought in Somalia as hunger deepens and aid shrinks

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• Aug 11, 2026 11:11 pm

One Somali family’s long trek to escape drought conditions is an example of a deepening humanitarian emergency in Somalia, where…

KANO, Nigeria (AP) — For groom Haruna Bashir, this weekend’s mass wedding event in Nigeria was more than a celebration…

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