Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger call for joint ‘large-scale operations’ against extremistsAP News• Dec 23, 2025 12:02 pmBAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The head of an alliance of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger declared Tuesday that the launch…
Senegal starts Africa Cup campaign with 3-0 win over Botswana, Nigeria plods past Tanzania 2-1AP News• Dec 23, 2025 10:04 am
Nigerians welcome 130 schoolchildren and teachers released after mass abductionAP News• Dec 22, 2025 02:25 pm
US signs new health deals with 9 African countries that mirror Trump’s prioritiesAP News• Dec 22, 2025 02:22 pm
South African police arrest suspect in mass shooting that killed 12, including 3 childrenAP News• Dec 22, 2025 09:28 am
Scientists and data explain why Kenya’s lakes are rising as thousands face an uncertain futureAP News• Dec 21, 2025 07:57 pm
Multiple gunmen open fire at a South African pub, killing 9 and wounding 10AP News• Dec 21, 2025 02:14 am
UN urges Rwanda to leave eastern Congo and extends peacekeeping mission for a yearAP News• Dec 20, 2025 02:04 amKINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has urged Rwanda to withdraw its forces from eastern Congo and extended…
South Sudanese army officer and soldiers arrested over death of UN staff memberAP News• Dec 19, 2025 07:30 am
Kenya’s environment court to consider a claim that a lux safari camp was harming wildebeests routesAP News• Dec 18, 2025 09:23 am
Burkina Faso releases Nigerian air force crew detained after emergency landingAP News• Dec 18, 2025 03:09 am
Refugee firefighters in Mauritania battle bushfires to give back to the community that took them inAP News• Dec 17, 2025 09:27 pm
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels claim withdrawal from Uvira as peace talks struggleAP News• Dec 17, 2025 01:19 pm
Over 1,600 people have been killed in attacks on health centers in Sudan this year, WHO chief saysAP News• Dec 17, 2025 09:35 am
South African authorities raid a US refugee processing center and Washington protestsAP News• Dec 17, 2025 01:59 amJOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African immigration authorities raided a United States refugee processing center in Johannesburg and seven Kenyans working…
Photos show a bullfight in Kenya, where an ancient sport attracts modern-day betsAP News• Dec 16, 2025 09:02 pm
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels say they will withdraw from seized city in eastern CongoAP News• Dec 16, 2025 06:10 am
South Sudan grounds UN aircraft and alleges illegal surveillance and smugglingAP News• Dec 15, 2025 11:19 am
PHOTO ESSAY: Refugees flee Mali as region is the world’s deadliest for extremismAP News• Dec 13, 2025 09:58 pmDOUANKARA, Mauritania (AP) — A makeshift village in the Mauritanian desert shelters thousands of refugees who have fled Mali in…
Girls and women fleeing Mali describe sexual violence by Russian forcesAP News• Dec 13, 2025 09:56 pm
Fear grips Congo’s Uvira as M23 rebels take control, displacing 200,000AP News• Dec 13, 2025 01:13 pm
Eritrea withdraws from regional bloc as UN expresses concern over tensions with EthiopiaAP News• Dec 13, 2025 12:10 am
South Africa eases affirmative action regulations on Starlink and others that Musk said were racistAP News• Dec 12, 2025 01:09 pm
US accuses Rwanda of violating the peace deal as M23 rebels seize a key eastern Congo cityAP News• Dec 12, 2025 12:21 pm
Building under construction collapses on temple in South Africa, leaving 1 deadAP News• Dec 12, 2025 07:20 am
Attacks by insurgents in Mozambique are compounding a displacement crisis, especially for childrenAP News• Dec 12, 2025 06:09 am
Conservationists connect with chimps in a Ugandan rainforest as they seek a sense of communionAP News• Dec 11, 2025 07:58 pmOnesmas Ainebyona tracks chimpanzees in a Ugandan rainforest. He has built trust with a chimp leader named Jean. It took…
Tanzania opposition calls for transitional government after disputed electionAP News• Dec 11, 2025 09:21 am
The US threatens to cut aid to South Sudan, citing its treatment of humanitarian groupsAP News• Dec 11, 2025 07:14 am
Rwanda-backed M23 offensive in Congo’s South Kivu kills over 400 civiliansAP News• Dec 11, 2025 02:11 am
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels say they’ve seized the strategic city of Uvira in eastern CongoAP News• Dec 10, 2025 04:55 am
Military drone attack on Sudan oil field kills dozens and threatens South Sudan’s economic lifelineAP News• Dec 10, 2025 03:03 am
Nigerian children reunite with their parents after being released from abductionAP News• Dec 10, 2025 03:01 am
2 buildings collapse in Moroccan city of Fez, killing 22 peopleAP News• Dec 10, 2025 02:59 amAuthorities report that two four-story buildings have collapsed in Fez, Morocco, killing 19 people. State news media reported that the…
Rwandan-backed rebels push toward strategic town in new offensive in eastern CongoAP News• Dec 9, 2025 02:27 pm
Nigerian soldiers open fire on protesters in the northeast, killing 9, witnesses sayAP News• Dec 9, 2025 02:25 pm
Iain Douglas-Hamilton, British zoologist and Save the Elephants founder, dies at 83AP News• Dec 9, 2025 08:16 am
West Africa is in a state of emergency after several coups, bloc leader saysAP News• Dec 9, 2025 06:17 am
Nigerian air force plane’s emergency landing puts Burkina Faso defense forces on high alertAP News• Dec 9, 2025 02:59 am
Tanzanian cities are empty as police patrol streets following calls for protestsAP News• Dec 9, 2025 02:16 am
Bomb explosion kills over 30 in eastern Congo after army clashes with pro-government militiaAP News• Dec 8, 2025 06:40 amA bomb explosion has killed more than 30 people and wounded 20 others in eastern Congo. The blast followed a…
100 schoolchildren abducted in Nigeria are released but more are still heldAP News• Dec 8, 2025 06:39 am
WHO says 114 people were killed, including 63 children, in last week’s drone strikes in SudanAP News• Dec 8, 2025 05:04 am
South Africa retain home sevens title in dramatic comeback and Wallaroos upset NZAP News• Dec 7, 2025 08:17 am
Benin is the latest African country to experience a coup. Here is a look at other military takeoversAP News• Dec 7, 2025 02:55 am
Benin’s president condemns a foiled coup bid and says mutineers are ‘fleeing’AP News• Dec 7, 2025 02:11 am
Mass shooting at a South African bar leaves 12 dead, including 3 childrenAP News• Dec 6, 2025 04:52 amA mass shooting at a bar near Pretoria, South Africa, has left at least 12 people dead, including three children.…
Sudanese paramilitary drone attack kills 50, including 33 children in Kordofan, doctor group saysAP News• Dec 6, 2025 12:01 am
World Food Program warns of catastrophic hunger in Cameroon without additional fundingAP News• Dec 5, 2025 11:06 am
Renewed fighting in eastern Congo threatens ‘historic’ peace deal brokered by TrumpAP News• Dec 5, 2025 05:57 am
Burkina Faso plans to restore death penalty for treason, terrorism, espionageAP News• Dec 5, 2025 05:08 am
What to know about the long-running corruption case of former South African President ZumaAP News• Dec 4, 2025 08:09 am
US and Kenya sign first of what are expected to be dozens of ‘America First’ global health dealsAP News• Dec 4, 2025 08:05 am
How a sperm bank for cheetahs might one day save the fastest land animalAP News• Dec 3, 2025 08:52 pm
The US will restrict visas for Nigerians and their families involved in violence against ChristiansAP News• Dec 3, 2025 11:30 amABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The United States will restrict visas for Nigerians and their family members involved in mass killings…
Algerian court upholds 7-year sentence for French journalist Christophe GleizesAP News• Dec 3, 2025 11:32 am
Tunisian police detain leading human rights defender as crackdown on critics widensAP News• Dec 2, 2025 02:23 pm
A gunman hijacks aid plane in South Sudan and is arrested after a refueling stopAP News• Dec 2, 2025 11:03 am
2 former South African apartheid police officers are convicted of killing an activist 38 years agoAP News• Dec 2, 2025 07:12 am
Nigeria’s president nominates ex-military chief for defense minister weeks after he was forced outAP News• Dec 2, 2025 07:11 am
Guinea-Bissau electoral commission unable to finalize results after armed men steal vote tallyAP News• Dec 2, 2025 06:25 am
Measles vaccinations begin in rebel-held Congo almost a year after deadly outbreakAP News• Dec 2, 2025 06:24 amKACHEHEMBE, Congo (AP) — Measles vaccines have arrived in a rebel-held area of eastern Congo nearly a year after a…
Guinea-Bissau’s latest coup sparks allegations of a staged takeover. Here’s what to knowAP News• Dec 1, 2025 10:12 am
A West African bloc delegation says talks with Guinea-Bissau coup leaders will continueAP News• Dec 1, 2025 06:03 am
At least 20 dead, several missing after boat capsizes in northwestern CongoAP News• Nov 29, 2025 06:04 am
African Union suspends Guinea-Bissau after coup and former president flees to Republic of CongoAP News• Nov 29, 2025 03:58 am