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

• Aug 12, 2026 10:41 pm

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambians began casting their votes Thursday in a presidential election that will test whether President Hakainde…

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

A guide to this week’s election in Zambia, a southern African country rich in critical minerals

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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

A ferry capsizes on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba, leaving at least 15 people dead and 27 missing

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• Aug 11, 2026 02:16 pm

Authorities say 10 Nigerian police officers were killed in gunbattle with rebels in the north

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• Aug 11, 2026 06:32 am

At least 14 artisanal miners killed in collapse at an illicit mine in South Africa

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• Aug 11, 2026 06:28 am

Congo says 2,000 people have died in history’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak

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• Aug 11, 2026 06:23 am

Congo’s Ebola outbreak has claimed at least 2,000 lives as it has become the fastest-growing on record. Government data shows…

WHO says Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak started months before it was declared

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• Aug 10, 2026 08:04 am

Nigerian army rescues 33 people abducted by gunmen in northwest region

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• Aug 9, 2026 09:19 am

No Ebola cases found on quarantined river boat, Congo authorities say

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• Aug 9, 2026 05:08 am

Morocco earns Women’s World Cup berth with 2-1 WAFCON quarterfinal victory over South Africa

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• Aug 8, 2026 04:05 pm

Widower who lost wife and 6 children in attack remarries in Nigerian mass wedding for 1,500 couples

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• Aug 8, 2026 10:07 am

More than 178,000 immigrants have suddenly fled or been deported from South Africa. Here’s why

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• Aug 8, 2026 07:12 am

IS-linked group kills at least 13 in Congo village

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• Aug 8, 2026 06:36 am

‘We saw death and suffering’: Dozens of Nigerians freed after 6 months in jihadi captivity

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• Aug 8, 2026 04:30 am

At least 163 Nigerian captives, mostly women and children, have spoken of the suffering and fear they lived in for…

70 years after South Africa’s women challenged apartheid, some say their freedom isn’t complete

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• Aug 7, 2026 09:13 pm

All Blacks begin South Africa tour with flattering win over the Stormers

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• Aug 7, 2026 12:47 pm

One man works to slow the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history, and he’s doing it unpaid

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• Aug 6, 2026 10:07 pm

The top photos of the day by AP's photojournalists

Farmers in Kenya dispute that cyanide poisoning could have killed 16 elephants

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• Aug 6, 2026 10:05 pm

Photos show the scene after the latest Israeli strikes in Gaza

Uganda approves sending troops for international force in Gaza

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• Aug 6, 2026 08:00 am

Cameroon’s president draws concern and criticism by staying abroad for 2 months

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• Aug 6, 2026 05:24 am

The top photos of the week by AP photojournalists

Congo monitors 200 boat passengers near Kinshasa after a traveler dies with Ebola-like symptoms

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• Aug 6, 2026 05:21 am

Nigerian president hails ‘largest ever’ single-day rescue as 308 abductees freed in country’s north

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• Aug 6, 2026 05:19 am

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 308 people abducted in different attacks in the northern part of Nigeria were rescued,…

War and accumulating sand threaten Sudan’s Meroe pyramids, in photos

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• Aug 5, 2026 10:20 pm

South Africa pushes for Africa migration talks after violent internal protests and Ceuta crisis

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• Aug 5, 2026 05:29 am

WHO chief says Ebola outbreak is outpacing response as aid workers strike over pay

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• Aug 5, 2026 05:26 am

Swimmer le Clos says his home was destroyed in a fire while he was at the Commonwealth Games

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• Aug 5, 2026 05:24 am

Kenya unveils carbon market rule book and caps the overseas sale of carbon credits

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• Aug 4, 2026 10:39 am

Zimbabwe mourns mother and 2 daughters killed in the UK as father faces charges

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• Aug 4, 2026 07:11 am

Ebola kills 1,700 in eastern Congo as the fastest-growing outbreak surges

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• Aug 4, 2026 04:48 am

Court fight begins over South Africa’s land law that irks the Trump administration

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• Aug 3, 2026 08:32 am

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A court case opened Monday challenging South Africa’s controversial new law that allows the government to seize…

Uganda police say at least 14 people killed in collision between truck and taxi van

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• Aug 4, 2026 04:42 am

Ethiopia landslide kills 14 at monastery ritual, search continues for missing

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• Aug 3, 2026 03:13 pm

Swiss geologist and local miner kidnapped and killed in Central African Republic

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• Aug 3, 2026 08:30 am

Ghana parliament backs tough cocoa farm protections, with up to 20 years in prison

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• Aug 3, 2026 04:52 am

More pregnant women are dying in Congo as they avoid hospitals over Ebola

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• Aug 3, 2026 04:47 am

Algerian bus plunges into a ravine near Algiers, killing at least 25 and injuring 44

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• Jul 31, 2026 07:22 am

Oprah Winfrey says she will close her school for girls in South Africa next year

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• Jul 31, 2026 05:08 am

Liberian authorities burn $336 million in cocaine as senior police officials are implicated

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• Jul 30, 2026 12:42 pm

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian law enforcement agents burned some 4.2 metric tons of cocaine worth about $336 million on…

Congo says the death toll in fastest-growing Ebola outbreak has passed 1,500

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• Jul 30, 2026 04:57 am

Ugandan opposition leader Besigye is unconscious in hospital after collapsing in court, wife says

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• Jul 30, 2026 04:54 am

Kenya says 15 elephants died of cyanide poisoning after eating tomatoes from nearby farms

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• Jul 29, 2026 04:06 pm

The fastest growing Ebola outbreak is worsening hunger in eastern Congo, a UN agency chief warns

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• Jul 29, 2026 12:20 pm

Ugandan opposition figure Besigye collapses in the dock during treason trial

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• Jul 29, 2026 12:18 pm

The deaths of 15 elephants in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park spark investigation

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• Jul 29, 2026 12:13 pm

Uganda declares itself free of Ebola as Congo continues to struggle with it

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• Jul 28, 2026 07:09 am

Ebola cases in Congo top 3,200, nearing record of the country’s worst outbreak

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• Jul 28, 2026 05:07 am

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Confirmed cases in Congo’s ongoing Ebola outbreak have reached 3,262, its Ministry of Health said in…

Chad announces intent to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, drawing praise from the US

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• Jul 28, 2026 05:04 am

Gunmen attack a community in Nigeria and kill 30 people, residents say

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• Jul 27, 2026 09:57 am

Senegal’s President Faye launches a new party over deepening split with former ally Sonko

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• Jul 25, 2026 01:14 pm

51 officials arrested and charged with terrorism over planned July protests, opposition says

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• Jul 25, 2026 11:16 am

More health workers strike as Ebola cases in Congo near 3,000, including over 1,300 deaths

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• Jul 25, 2026 04:54 am

South Africa halts impeachment against President Cyril Ramaphosa over stolen cash inquiry

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• Jul 24, 2026 05:00 am

Giraffes given a new home in Uganda to escape oil drilling in the country’s largest park

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• Jul 24, 2026 04:58 am

A beach break in Nigeria’s Lagos is becoming too expensive for many

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• Jul 23, 2026 10:14 pm

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Weekends for Mukthar Oladunmade since he was a child have typically featured a visit to the…

By the Numbers: This year’s Ebola outbreak has spread faster than the worst on record

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• Jul 23, 2026 09:15 am

Ghanaians ask International Criminal Court to examine years of anti-migrant violence in South Africa

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• Jul 23, 2026 09:13 am

What experts are saying as Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda kills more than 1,000 people

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• Jul 23, 2026 05:06 am

Demand for critical minerals fuels conflict but could help resource-rich nations, WTO says

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• Jul 22, 2026 01:14 pm

Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed over 1,000 people

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• Jul 22, 2026 04:45 am

UN says nearly 150 migrants are dead or missing off West Africa in separate incidents

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• Jul 21, 2026 10:19 am

Ebola quarantine center for Americans is up and working in Kenya despite a court ban, activists say

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• Jul 20, 2026 03:13 pm

Children describe how Nigerian militants moving south are seizing more young captives

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• Jul 20, 2026 07:30 am

ESINELE, Nigeria (AP) — Aliyu Saheed feared he might not see his three young sons again. For nearly two months…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition seeking to legalize the use of cannabis by…

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