Africa

Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu speaks at the opening ceremony of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (Greg Baker/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Nigerian leader suspends the governor of an oil-rich state in rare emergency rule

Nigeria’s leader declared an emergency in oil-rich Rivers state and suspended its governor and lawmakers over a political crisis and vandalism to pipelines that contribute to the country’s status as Africa’s top oil producer.

Former members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and police officers who allegedly surrendered to M23 rebels arrive in Goma, Congo, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, file)

Presidents of Congo and Rwanda meet in Qatar to discuss the insurgency in eastern Congo

Penguins walk on the shore of Bahia Almirantazgo in Antarctica on Jan. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

Fear at isolated Antarctica base as a man is accused of attacking a colleague and making threats

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands reviews the honor guard after arriving to meet with Kenya's President William Ruto at State House in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Kenya hosts Dutch royals as allegations of rights abuses mount in the East African nation

FILE - Houses and buildings are partially submerged following a dam collapse in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Sept 10, 2024. (AP Photos/ Musa Ajit Borno, File)

A Nigerian city devastated by flooding has quickly recovered. Locals credit community spirit

AFRICA PULSE

Aminata Doumbia, president of the women's group, sits next to a pit on farmland that was leased with help from USAID but has not yet been cultivated because the funding has ceased in Kimbirila-Nord, Ivory Coast, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Ivory Coast is losing US aid as al-Qaida and other extremist groups are approaching

A 28-year-old mother of four who was gang-raped by armed men while collecting firewood, enters a makeshift house in Juba displacement camp, South Sudan, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Can technology help more survivors of sexual assault in South Sudan?

Haile Tsege, 76, sits on a rock in the Sebacare internally displaced persons (IDPs) camp, on the outskirts of Mekele, Tigray region, Ethiopia, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Mamo)

‘We will just die in silence': US aid cuts hit Ethiopia’s fragile Tigray region

Mpox scars are seen on the hands of Bintu Biringingwa, at the Miti Murhesa hospital, some 25kms from Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Janvier Barhahiga)

Congo faces setback in mpox response after Rwanda-backed rebels advance in the east

Afeli Bernice Adzo leans against the remains of her father's room as she looks at the ocean that destroyed her family home in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

‘We don’t have anywhere to go.’ In Ghana, rising seas, powerful waves sweep away homes

I'm Worth Defending officer Amelia Awuor, left, demonstrates self-defense techniques at Enkakenya Centre for Excellence in Narok County, Kenya, on Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Nicholas Komu)

Maasai girls take up self-defense as protection from sexual abuse and early marriage

Separatists in Mali say an army airstrike on a market killed 18. The army says it targeted fighters

Mali announces withdrawal from alliance of French-speaking countries

A roadside bomb in Mogadishu targeted the president’s convoy, Somalian government says

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends the High-Level Segment of the 58th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Sexual misconduct allegations in UN missions topped 100 in 2024, UN says

Suspected Somali pirates seize Yemeni fishing boat in third such attack in recent weeks

French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau leaves the weekly cabinet meeting, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

France and Algeria feud over expulsion policy as tensions flare between the two countries

Millions of people and hundreds of staff impacted by US aid cuts, UN migration agency says

South Sudan orders civilians to vacate a northern area as it battles an armed group

Sudanese police accuse RSF paramilitaries after 11 bodies found at bottom of a well in Khartoum

Burkina Faso junta leader Ibrahim Traore participates in a ceremony in Ouagadougou, Oct. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Kilaye Bationo, File)

Video of Burkina Faso massacre appears to implicate government-allied militia, watchdog says

President Donald Trump is escorted by Col. Paul Pawluk, Vice Commander of the 89th Airlift Wing, right, as he walks from Marine One before boarding Air Force One, Friday, March 14, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

Why Trump is singling out South Africa and accusing it of being anti-white and anti-American

This image taken from video Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, shows a breach at a tailing dam at a Sino-Metals Leach Zambia mine near Kitwe. (AP Photo/Richard Kille )

A river ‘died’ overnight in Zambia after an acidic waste spill at a Chinese-owned mine

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio disembarks from his vehicle as he walks to board his airplane prior to departing Quebec City Jean Lesage International Airport in Quebec, Canada, Friday, March 14, 2025. (Saul Loeb, Pool Photo via AP)

Rubio says South Africa’s ambassador to the US ‘is no longer welcome’ in the country

British man killed in Kenya after being knocked over by president’s speeding motorcade

UN judge from Uganda is convicted in the UK of forcing a woman into slavery

5 children killed and 2 others are missing after a dam collapses in Zimbabwe

Patrick Bahati is treated for Mpox at the Miti Murhesa hospital, some 25kms from Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Janvier Barhahiga)

US aid cuts are hurting Africa’s ability to respond to disease outbreaks, health chief says

South African soldiers, part of the Southern African Development Community's mission to fight against armed rebel groups in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, stand in Goma as the bodies of two South African soldiers are repatriated to South Africa Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi will withdraw troops from conflict-torn eastern Congo

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, center, shares a light moment with European Union Council President Antonio Costa, left, and Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission President, ahead of the eighth EU-South Africa summit in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)

EU announces a $5 billion investment in South Africa as the tariffs war with Trump escalates

Ethiopians holding national flags protest against what they say is interference by outsiders in the country's internal affairs and against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the party of Tigray's fugitive leaders, at a rally organized by the city administration in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

Ethiopia’s Tigray regional government appeals for help after factional fighters seize key towns

M23 rebels enter the centre of east Congo's second-largest city, Bukavu, and take control of the South Kivu province administrative office, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Janvier Barhahiga, file)

Congo and M23 rebel group will hold peace talks on Tuesday, mediator Angola says

Minister of Finance of South Africa Enoch Godongwana arrives ahead of the state of the nation address by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the City Hall in Cape Town, Feb. 8, 2024. (Rodger Bosch/pool photo via AP, file)

South Africa plans to spend more on health and defense after the US cuts aid

Frame grab from video shoot Wednesday, March 12, 2025, showing the aftermath of a car bomb exploded Tuesday at a hotel in the central Somali city of Beledweyne, kicking off an hourslong militant attack that killed an unknown number of people. (AP Photo from video)

Somali forces end a 24-hour siege by al-Shabab militants on a hotel, leaving all fighters dead

Patrice Motsepe, the President of the Confederation of African Football, arrives for the 2022 soccer World Cup draw at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center in Doha, Qatar, on April 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

African soccer leader Patrice Motsepe re-elected pledging to seek private finance for new stadiums

In this video frame grab, people assist victims after two explosions hit a meeting of M23 rebel group leaders and residents in Bukavu, eastern Congo, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Janvier Barhahiga)

Angola to act as mediator in peace talks between Congo and M23 rebels

Nigerian authorities confirm meningitis outbreak in northwest has killed 26 people since January

A militant attack on a Somalia hotel leaves an unknown number dead

A Kenyan police officer patrols an area in the Kenscoff neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

The body of a Kenyan officer who died in Haiti arrives home for burial

Emergency officials walk next to a bus that overturned on a highway in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, March 11, 2025, killing multiple people and injuring some. (AP Photo/Alfonso Nqunjana)

16 are dead and dozens are hurt after a bus flips on a highway in South Africa

Sheeps are for sale in a northern district of Algiers, Saturday June 8, 2024, ahead of the Eid al-Adha, or "Feast of Sacrifice," when Muslims around the world slaughter sheep and cattle in remembrance of Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul, File)

Drought-stricken Algeria plans to import 1 million sheep ahead of Islam’s Eid Al-Adha

South African sculptor and painter James Delaney speaks to the residents during his official opening his public art installation, at the Killarney Park in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Alfonso Nqunjana)

A South African artist hopes vibrant sculptures make parks more welcoming in a city known for danger

Former members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and police officers who allegedly surrendered to M23 rebels arrive in Goma, Congo, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Islamic State-linked rebels in fresh attack in eastern Congo kill 9 villagers

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, right, and Vice President Riek Machar, left, attend a Holy Mass led by Pope Francis at the John Garang Mausoleum in Juba, South Sudan Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

US orders nonemergency government staff to leave South Sudan as tension grows over fighting

FILE- A woman waits to have the malaria vaccine R21/Matrix-M administered to her child at the comprehensive Health Centre in Agudama-Epie, in Yenagoa, Nigeria, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

No disease is deadlier in Africa than malaria. Trump’s US aid cuts weaken the fight against it

Light shines from a total lunar eclipse over Santa Monica Beach in Santa Monica, Calif., Wednesday, May 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

Watch the moon turn red during a total lunar eclipse