Ivory Coast votes as Ouattara seeks a fourth term with key rivals sidelinedAP News• Oct 24, 2025 10:58 pmABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Voters in Ivory Coast cast ballots Saturday to elect a new leader as longtime President…
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Ivory Coast presidential candidates hold final rallies ahead of Saturday’s electionAP News• Oct 23, 2025 01:16 pm
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Nigerian army kills over 50 Boko Haram militants as it fights off drone attacksAP News• Oct 23, 2025 09:06 am
Ghana police rescue 57 Nigerians in crackdown on human trafficking and cybercrimeAP News• Oct 23, 2025 08:00 amACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Police in Ghana rescued 57 Nigerians trafficked to the West African country and arrested five people…
Youth who led Madagascar protests hope coup leader will continue to hear them as presidentAP News• Oct 22, 2025 06:56 pm
Judge orders former South African President Zuma to repay $1.6 million in legal feesAP News• Oct 22, 2025 10:10 am
Youth anger in Ivory Coast as the 83-year-old president seeks a fourth termAP News• Oct 21, 2025 09:57 pm
Cameroon arrests at least 20 protesters as tensions escalate after presidential electionAP News• Oct 21, 2025 12:06 pmYAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — At least 20 people have been arrested in Cameroon in connection with protests over the Oct.…
Fuel truck explodes in Nigeria and kills at least 31 people, police sayAP News• Oct 21, 2025 02:09 pm
14 killed in train collision in a remote part of Ethiopia, official saysAP News• Oct 21, 2025 01:01 pm
Zimbabwean family seeks justice for brother’s death linked to abuse at Christian campAP News• Oct 21, 2025 08:08 am
Nigeria police fire tear gas and arrest dozens as protesters demand release of separatist leaderAP News• Oct 20, 2025 12:25 pm
Congo’s last Ebola patient has been discharged, raising hopes that outbreak might be overAP News• Oct 20, 2025 06:06 am
Kenya ex-Prime Minister Raila Odinga buried as the country faces political uncertaintyAP News• Oct 19, 2025 02:02 am
A mushroom farm in Kenya and fungi-based panels give hope for sustainable buildingAP News• Oct 18, 2025 09:55 pm
Morocco’s Gen Z protesters demand accountability and education reformAP News• Oct 18, 2025 03:53 pmCASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — Refusing to let the coming wave of fanfare around December’s Africa Cup of Nations overshadow their…
Zimbabwe’s ruling party moves to extend President Mnangagwa’s term until 2030AP News• Oct 18, 2025 09:53 am
Gen Z protests against corruption and inequality are shaking Morocco. Here’s what to knowAP News• Oct 17, 2025 11:50 pm
Heavy security after deadly violence in Kenya, as thousands mourn former Prime Minister Raila OdingaAP News• Oct 17, 2025 11:50 pm
Ivory Coast court sentences 26 opposition protesters to 36 months in prisonAP News• Oct 17, 2025 02:56 pm
What to know about the Madagascar army colonel who was ‘in the shadows’ before launching a coupAP News• Oct 17, 2025 05:00 am
Stampede at the funeral of Kenya’s former Prime Minister Raila Odinga kills 2AP News• Oct 17, 2025 03:57 am
An army colonel who led a lightning-fast coup takes over as Madagascar’s presidentAP News• Oct 16, 2025 11:52 pmCol. Michael Randrianirina has been sworn in as Madagascar’s new leader after seizing power in a military coup. The rapid…
A US senator claims ‘Christian mass murder’ is occurring in Nigeria. The data disagreesAP News• Oct 16, 2025 09:55 pm
UN condemns military takeover in Madagascar as coup leader to be quickly sworn in as presidentAP News• Oct 16, 2025 02:04 pm
Cameroon governing party says one of its offices was set on fire as election tensions riseAP News• Oct 16, 2025 02:04 pm
South Africa welcomes $115M US bridge plan to sustain its HIV programs for 6 monthsAP News• Oct 16, 2025 06:59 am
Violence erupts during anti-pollution protest as anger boils in Tunisia’s phosphate beltAP News• Oct 16, 2025 05:58 am
Fear and worry in Lesotho: Photos show those affected as US aid cuts hit care for HIV patientsAP News• Oct 16, 2025 01:58 am
Kenya police fire at mourners and 2 die as violence erupts at viewing of body of ex-Premier OdingaAP News• Oct 16, 2025 01:58 amNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan police opened fire Thursday, killing two people as they tried to control a crowd of…
US aid cuts deal a massive blow for the small African nation of Lesotho: Takeaways from AP’s reportAP News• Oct 16, 2025 01:57 am
Former Congo leader Kabila appears at Kenya political meeting despite absentia death sentenceAP News• Oct 15, 2025 11:54 pm
‘You’ve been calling a lot!’: How 2 AP reporters landed an interview with Madagascar’s coup leaderAP News• Oct 15, 2025 03:00 pm
Madagascar’s president rose to power off youth discontent and was taken down by itAP News• Oct 15, 2025 12:01 pm
Leader of Madagascar’s military coup tells AP he is ‘taking the position of president’AP News• Oct 15, 2025 04:56 am
Former Kenyan premier Raila Odinga, a key figure in African democracy efforts, dies at 80AP News• Oct 15, 2025 02:02 am
An ancient tradition is helping girls in Zimbabwe fight child marriagesAP News• Oct 14, 2025 09:55 pm
Ghana rights group files lawsuit against government’s acceptance of US deporteesAP News• Oct 14, 2025 02:57 pmACCRA, Ghana (AP) — A group of 14 people have become the latest West Africans deported from the U.S. to…
Kenyan family urges extradition of British national in death of woman after night out with soldiersAP News• Oct 14, 2025 12:02 pm
South Africa’s health minister hails new HIV prevention jab but warns of limited supplyAP News• Oct 14, 2025 09:00 am
Congo and M23 rebels agree to create body to oversee potential ceasefireAP News• Oct 14, 2025 07:01 am
Suspect in the fatal stabbing of a Kenyan presidential guard will be assessedAP News• Oct 14, 2025 05:53 am
Madagascar’s president is ousted in a military coup after weeks of youth-led protestsAP News• Oct 14, 2025 03:57 am
Cameroon opposition candidate claims win in presidential election ahead of resultsAP News• Oct 14, 2025 01:56 am
Mali retaliates against US visa bond requirement with identical measureAP News• Oct 13, 2025 12:57 pm
Bus crash in mountainous region of South Africa kills at least 42 peopleAP News• Oct 13, 2025 01:56 amJOHANNESBURG (AP) — A bus veered off a road and plunged down an embankment on a steep mountain pass in…
Abandoned dogs in Ethiopia’s capital get little care. A woman wants to change thatAP News• Oct 12, 2025 09:53 pm
Reviving this African game reserve meant catching and transporting hundreds of wild animalsAP News• Oct 12, 2025 12:53 pm
Madagascar’s president says a coup is underway after soldiers joined anti-government demonstrationsAP News• Oct 12, 2025 05:54 am
World’s oldest president could extend his rule as Cameroon votes in an electionAP News• Oct 12, 2025 02:01 am
Ivory Coast arrests 237 protesters amid rising tensions before presidential electionAP News• Oct 11, 2025 07:54 am
A Sudanese paramilitary attack kills at least 53 people in Darfur, an aid group saysAP News• Oct 11, 2025 07:53 am
UN says 53 civilians killed during 3 days of attacks in and near el-Fasher camp in western SudanAP News• Oct 10, 2025 11:57 am
Burkina Faso rejects proposal to accept deportees from the USAP News• Oct 10, 2025 03:54 amDAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso says it has refused a proposal from the Trump administration to accept deportees from…
In Kenya, a search for links between a changing climate and mental healthAP News• Oct 10, 2025 02:03 am
Protesters rally across Morocco in final push for reforms before king’s expected addressAP News• Oct 9, 2025 04:57 pm
Madagascar’s Gen Z protesters clash with police as they call for president to step downAP News• Oct 9, 2025 09:59 am
The world’s oldest president seeks an eighth term in Cameroon as youth grumbleAP News• Oct 8, 2025 09:56 pm
Ebola outbreak in southern Congo shows signs of containment with no new cases, WHO reportsAP News• Oct 8, 2025 04:00 pm
More than 80% of health facilities in eastern Congo are out of medicine, Red Cross saysAP News• Oct 8, 2025 05:55 am
Cameroon’s 92-year-old president makes rare public appearance to campaign for reelectionAP News• Oct 7, 2025 06:52 pm
Desperate search for fuel in Mali’s capital as al-Qaida-linked group enforces blockadeAP News• Oct 7, 2025 05:51 pmBAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Endless lines stretched in front of gas stations in Mali’s capital Bamako late into Monday night,…
Oversight body says South Sudan rivals have recruited fighters, raising war fearsAP News• Oct 7, 2025 08:58 am
Charity linked to Prince Harry loses mandate to manage wildlife reserves in ChadAP News• Oct 7, 2025 06:59 am
What to know about the white South Africans Trump may prioritize in new refugee quota for the USAP News• Oct 6, 2025 01:59 pm
Somali government forces end a 6-hour siege at a major prison, killing all 7 attackersAP News• Oct 5, 2025 08:55 am
Militants attack major prison in Mogadishu hours after roadblocks liftedAP News• Oct 4, 2025 11:53 am
Peter Mutharika is sworn in as Malawi president in political comeback at the age of 85AP News• Oct 4, 2025 05:54 am