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  • Jesus Muñoz Gutierrez attends a press conference at the Juba International Airport in Juba, South Sudan, before being repatriated Saturday.
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    South Sudan repatriates Mexican man deported from US
  • Kilmar Abrego Garcia stands outside Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Baltimore field office on August 25, 2025.
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    Trump administration plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Eswatini
  • Infrared thermometers are ready to be distributed by the United Nayions organization UNICEF at a ceremony in Mbandaka on May 21, 2018. - The death toll in an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rose to 26 on May 21, 2018, after a person died in the northwest city of Mbandaka, the government said, as it began vaccinating first responders against the dreaded disease. (Photo by Junior D. KANNAH / AFP) (Photo by JUNIOR D. KANNAH/AFP via Getty Images)
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    New Ebola outbreak in DR Congo suspected of causing 15 deaths
  • Sudan's Al-Merrikh players attend a training session at the Atbara Stadium, north of Khartoum, on July 17, 2025. Away from the frontlines of war, modest stadiums seem to shake with the roars of football fans jumping to their feet as football tournaments return to the war-torn country for the first time since April 2023, when fighting between Sudan's regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces broke out, killing tens of thousands and turning Sudan to the scene of the world's largest hunger and displacement crisis.
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    A team uniting a divided nation: War-torn Sudan’s remarkable rise to the precipice of World Cup history
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Interim leader of Burkina Faso Captain Ibrahim Traore (C) salutes at the start of the first ever Alliance of Sahel States summit in Niamey, Niger, 06 July 2024. The junta-leaders in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger held their first ever joint summit of a new regional bloc, the Alliance of Sahel States, AES, since seizing power in a series of coups.
First summit of the Alliance of the Sahel States (AES) in Niamey, Niger - 06 Jul 2024
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    Burkina Faso parliament passes law outlawing LGBTQ practices
  • The aftermath of a landslide in the Marra Mountains area of western Sudan, on September 1, 2025.
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    Over 1,000 killed in landslide in western Sudan village, armed group says
  • Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has ruled the East African nation with an iron fist since 1986.
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    Africa’s largest refugee-hosting country is facing backlash over US migrant deal
  • In Imabari, Japan, officials received a large number of complaints over a scheme to make the city "hometown" for a partner country in Africa
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    Japan denies giving away city to Tanzania after misinformation sparks anti-immigration backlash
  • An artistic reconstruction of the ankylosaur Spicomellus afer, based on fossils found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, shows the animal with the most extensive armor of any known dinosaur. Spicomellus lived about 165 million years ago during the Jurassic Period. The image was released on August 27, 2025. Matt Dempsey/Handout via REUTERS. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY
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    ‘Jaw-droppingly weird’ dinosaur from Morocco was studded with spikes and armor

Features

  • Russian officers from the Wagner Group are seen around Central African President Faustin-Archange Touadera in Bangui, on July 17, 2023, as they are part of the presidential security system.
    Leger Kokpakpa/Reuters
    In Africa, Russia is swapping a ruthless paramilitary for a replica it can control. What’s Putin’s game plan?
  • Trump’s tariffs are sending African countries into China’s hands
  • ‘Not Trump’s dumping ground’: Outrage over arrival of foreign US deportees in tiny African nation
  • Trump wants to talk business with Africa in hopes of countering China. But a US summit excludes Africa’s big players
  • As two African nations sign a peace deal, Trump wants credit. But some fear peace may still elude them
  • US foreign aid cuts threaten decades of progress on driving down malaria
  • Trump fast-tracked processing of White South African refugees. But not everyone wants to leave
  • The world’s youngest country fought for decades to govern itself. Now it’s on the cusp of another civil war
  • Sudan’s army has captured the capital. Is it a turning point in the devastating conflict?
  • Accounts of child survivors shed light on surge of rape and sexual violence in conflict-torn DRC
  • Trump wants to protect South Africa’s White farmers. But potential changes to trade privileges would hurt them
  • Fighting in Africa’s mineral-rich DRC killed over 3,000 in less than 2 weeks. Here’s how your phone plays a part
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African Voices Changemakers

  • Otim Alpha is a musician from northern Uganda and the pioneer of Acholitronix – a mixture of electronic music and Acholi traditional instruments.
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  • Video Activist athletes Ejike Ugboaja and Deo Kato advocate for change through sports 22:58
  • Video These African creators promote powerful historical values through art and architecture 22:57
  • Video Meet three African footballers bringing excitement to Major League Soccer in the United States 23:04
  • Video Nigerian celebrity stylist shares her inspiring story 8:13
  • How Rotimi and Vanessa Mdee’s chance romance became a deep dive into faith and purpose
  • Video How two visionary creators are shaping global design 23:00
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Inside Africa

  • A decommissioned Soviet MiG-21 fighter jet was turned into an intricate work of art by South African artist Ralph Ziman. The giant installation piece is the final entry in Ziman’s series “Weapons of Mass Production,” which transforms artefacts of war using millions of traditional beads.
    Ralph Ziman
    Make art, not war: Why an artist spent five years and used 35 million beads to transform a supersonic jet
  • Stunning photos spotlight vanishing ‘super tusker’ elephants
  • In pictures: International Cowboys and Cowgirls Day in Kenya
  • Video This startup is working toward financial inclusion in Ivory Coast 2:27
  • Photographer shows the secretive, colorful world of Ghanaian funerals

Connecting Africa

  • Nigerian filmmaker Ebele Okoye has successfully pursued a career in animation in Germany, while establishing training courses in the country of her birth. Okoye believes AI can aid African animators in realizing their films.
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    ‘You’re going to see this flood of new stories’: Why African animators are excited about AI
  • Solar and batteries could help Egypt beat its blackouts
  • Video Ivory Coast strives to become a gateway for trade 23:02
  • Energy is the ‘number one problem’ for Africa’s economy, says IEA director
  • Video Powering Africa through clean energy 23:03
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African start-up

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    This company’s edible skincare products are full of ‘raw Ghanaian goodness’
  • This Rwandan entrepreneur turns discarded tires into fashionable footwear
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  • Solar-charging backpacks are helping children to read after dark

Africa Avant Garde

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    This Lagos museum is challenging the traditional ‘Eurocentric’ model
  • Nigerian cinema in the spotlight as ‘My Father’s Shadow’ to premiere in Cannes Film Festival first
  • Inside Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo’s rise to art-world stardom
  • This Nigerian designer is making waves with her ‘four-dimensional’ fashion
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Marketplace africa

  • <p>From rideshare to digitizing food delivery, Angola's budding start-up ecosystem is driving a digital revolution across the country and providing new services for a growing middle class.</p>
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  • A vendor sells a map of Africa along the streets of Bujumbura, Burundi in April 2015.
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  • Palestinian children carry water jugs past tents, housing displaced people, in the Mawasi area in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 7, 2025. Israel's military will have to execute any government decisions on Gaza, the defence minister said on August 6 after reported disagreements over the prospect of a full occupation of the Palestinian territory.
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  • A hunter from the United States was killed by a buffalo he was tracking during an expedition in South Africa, organizers said this week.
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  • Passengers make their way through the terminal at Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, U.S., on November 22, 2023.
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    US demands up to $15,000 visa bond for tourists and business travelers from Zambia and Malawi
  • Worshippers listen to Imam Ibrahima Diane advocate for an end to gender-based violence and practices like female genital mutilation at the Great Mosque of Nietty Mbar in Thiaroye, a suburb of Dakar, Senegal, on July 4, 2025.
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    Two Ghana government ministers among 8 killed in helicopter crash
  • The Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, pictured in 2009.
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    Nigeria seizes more than 1,600 exotic birds in one of the biggest wildlife trafficking busts in years
  • US President Donald Trump listens as Rwanda's Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe speaks during an event in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, on June 27, 2025.
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    Rwanda agrees to take in up to 250 migrants deported from the US
  • Three men accused of killing two women and feeding their bodies to pigs, from right to left, farm-owner, Zachariah Olivier, supervisor, Adrian Rudolph de Wet and employee, William Musora appear in court Polokwane, South Africa, Tuesday, on Sept. 10, 2024.
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    White South African farm owner on trial for allegedly murdering two Black women and feeding their bodies to pigs
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    Over 60 African migrants killed and dozens missing after boat capsizes near Yemen, says UN

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