Focus turns to building stronger institutions in Africa to speed shift to renewable energyAP News• Jul 12, 2026 04:12 amAfrica’s renewable energy transition is entering a new phase as the continent shifts from proving that clean energy works to…
South Africa seeks tariff exemption as US probes forced labor tied to importsAP News• Jul 11, 2026 08:14 am
Mali and Algeria reopen airspace and reinstate ambassadors, ending a yearlong riftAP News• Jul 11, 2026 06:33 am
South African police arrest UK fugitive sought in alleged killings of his wife and 2 daughtersAP News• Jul 10, 2026 02:49 pm
Students abducted in May by Islamic militants in Nigeria are rescued, government saysAP News• Jul 10, 2026 12:42 pm
Mali’s military says it’s broken a rebel blockade around a strategic northern baseAP News• Jul 10, 2026 12:40 pm
Senegal judges reject constitutional change that would reduce presidential powersAP News• Jul 10, 2026 05:15 am
Suspected Ebola patient placed in Equatorial Guinea hotel with deportees from the US, lawyers sayAP News• Jul 9, 2026 09:50 am
Ebola death toll in Congo reaches 600, as new cases suspected in previously unaffected provincesAP News• Jul 9, 2026 05:05 amNew suspected Ebola cases have been reported in previously unaffected parts of Congo, according to the government. The death toll…
Drone strikes on civilian vehicles kill at least 20 in Sudan, rights groups sayAP News• Jul 8, 2026 05:10 am
Bus collision with truck leaves 14 dead in remote area of northern UgandaAP News• Jul 8, 2026 05:06 am
Some health workers in Congo’s Ebola outbreak go on strike over pay issues as deaths near 600AP News• Jul 8, 2026 05:04 am
Zimbabwe’s 83-year-old president signs law to delay elections and extend his own termAP News• Jul 7, 2026 11:14 am
Violence escalates in South Sudan as a government commissioner is killedAP News• Jul 7, 2026 06:51 am
Tanzanian authorities arrest dozens ahead of anti-government protestsAP News• Jul 6, 2026 05:31 amDAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) — Tanzanian authorities arrested dozens of people ahead of planned anti-government protests, part of a…
Nigeria says 2 nationals were killed during anti-migrant violence in South AfricaAP News• Jul 5, 2026 04:37 am
Residents in eastern Congo cling to hope as a new Ebola treatment trial beginsAP News• Jul 5, 2026 04:35 am
A boat transporting students from exams sinks in Congo, killing at least 20, authorities sayAP News• Jul 4, 2026 11:17 am
Autism remains widely misunderstood in parts of Africa. A mother in Guinea fights for her childAP News• Jul 4, 2026 04:36 am
Clashes linked to a land dispute kill 18 in north-central Nigeria, police sayAP News• Jul 2, 2026 10:40 am
An AP journalist describes a month in the epicenter of Congo’s Ebola outbreakAP News• Jul 2, 2026 05:29 amAn Associated Press journalist spent a month in the epicenter of Congo’s Ebola outbreak documenting the toll and the challenges…
Rights group accuses three paramilitary commanders of war crimes in SudanAP News• Jul 1, 2026 05:09 am
36 students and 3 teachers missing after gunmen raided a school in northeastern NigeriaAP News• Jun 30, 2026 04:45 pm
Rights lawyers sue Ghana over third-country deportation deal with the USAP News• Jun 30, 2026 10:42 am
Floods in Ghana and Ivory Coast leave at least 24 dead following torrential rainsAP News• Jun 30, 2026 09:11 am
Restoring dignity one haircut at a time in Kenya’s largest mental health hospitalAP News• Jun 30, 2026 05:42 am
Anti-immigration protesters march in South Africa, as some immigrants leave the countryAP News• Jun 30, 2026 05:37 amThousands of demonstrators have gathered in South Africa to protest illegal immigration. This marks the largest migration-related protest since 2008.…
Gunmen storm a Nigerian school and kidnap students during exams, police sayAP News• Jun 30, 2026 05:35 am
All warring parties in Mali committed serious abuses against civilians, report saysAP News• Jun 30, 2026 05:28 am
Gunmen attack farming community, killing at least 15 in northwest Nigeria in latest deadly assaultAP News• Jun 27, 2026 11:22 am
In Rwanda, a royal herd of cattle is treated to poetry and cultural reverenceAP News• Jun 27, 2026 04:56 am
Tanzania bans political rallies ahead of planned anti-government protestsAP News• Jun 26, 2026 01:36 pm
Congo files an ICJ case against Rwanda over decades of violence in eastern CongoAP News• Jun 26, 2026 09:28 amKINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo said Friday it has filed a case against Rwanda at the International Court of Justice,…
A Moroccan court sentences 29 prominent people in major drug trafficking and corruption caseAP News• Jun 26, 2026 04:59 am
Hundreds arrested as Kenyans mark the anniversary of deadly protests in 2024AP News• Jun 25, 2026 05:05 am
Zimbabwe’s Senate approves bill to delay the presidential election and overhaul the voteAP News• Jun 24, 2026 12:26 pm
South African civil groups warn of dire impact as US phases out HIV program fundingAP News• Jun 24, 2026 12:24 pm
Nigeria’s Senate passes bill to allow creation of state police to tackle insecurityAP News• Jun 24, 2026 12:21 pm
Immigrants are leaving South Africa as protests grow over illegal migration. Here’s what to knowAP News• Jun 24, 2026 07:54 am
South African prisons open art galleries to showcase inmates’ workAP News• Jun 24, 2026 05:21 amJOHANNESBURG (AP) — When most people think of prison, they picture steel bars, locked gates and lost freedom. But at…
Kenyan authorities to charge students with murder in dorm fire that killed 16 girlsAP News• Jun 23, 2026 11:58 am
Kenya’s health minister orders suspension of construction on a US-backed Ebola facilityAP News• Jun 23, 2026 07:50 am
A former Zambian president’s family can finally choose where he’s buried after yearlong legal battleAP News• Jun 23, 2026 05:13 am
Armed group in Nigeria kills at least 20 people and exchanges gunfire with policeAP News• Jun 23, 2026 05:11 am
South Sudan says it will hold first-ever election in December after repeated delaysAP News• Jun 22, 2026 12:37 pm
Kenya’s health minister found in contempt of court over US-backed Ebola facilityAP News• Jun 22, 2026 08:38 am
Confirmed Ebola cases in Congo outbreak top 1,000 with 254 deaths, authorities sayAP News• Jun 22, 2026 05:10 am
How a COVID lockdown helped make an award-winning winemaker in South AfricaAP News• Jun 21, 2026 04:35 amCAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Like millions of others, Natasha Jacka went stir-crazy during a COVID-19 lockdown in 2020,…
Ethiopia’s ruling party retains parliamentary majority in election marred by insecurityAP News• Jun 21, 2026 10:23 am
Nigerian migrants returning from South Africa face the same economic issues they left behindAP News• Jun 20, 2026 04:33 am
Migrants deported by US to Sierra Leone risk return to countries where they fear persecutionAP News• Jun 19, 2026 03:22 pm
Africa CDC chief says the continent needs to invest its own funds in Ebola response, vaccineAP News• Jun 19, 2026 02:28 pm
Ghana conference urges slave-trade nations to issue apologies and reparationsAP News• Jun 19, 2026 01:15 pm
Mourners bury a 6-month-old Ebola victim in the Congo outbreak’s third orphanage deathAP News• Jun 19, 2026 11:20 am
Brazen attack on Niger’s airport shows jihadis are expanding to cities in Africa’s SahelAP News• Jun 19, 2026 08:23 am
South Africa builds another site to ease overcrowding and speed up deportation of Malawian nationalsAP News• Jun 18, 2026 10:56 amJOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa started building a second temporary deportation center on Thursday to process the repatriation of Malawians…
Zimbabwe vote to extend president’s term underscores the staying power of Africa’s aging leadersAP News• Jun 18, 2026 09:39 am
Gunmen attack Niger airport, killing 11 soldiers and 2 civilians, officials sayAP News• Jun 18, 2026 05:00 am
Equatorial Guinea government resigns after missing targets, vice president saysAP News• Jun 17, 2026 01:39 pm
Uganda court charges lawyer for jailed Ugandan opposition leader with concealing treasonAP News• Jun 17, 2026 08:33 am
15 countries in Kenya adopt the Mombasa Declaration to fight illegal fishingAP News• Jun 17, 2026 07:46 am
Migrants clash with police at a deportation site in South Africa where thousands have gatheredAP News• Jun 17, 2026 07:44 amJOHANNESBURG (AP) — Police fired rubber bullets and used stun grenades against migrants protesting Wednesday near a community hall in…
A 16-month-old and his mother recover from Ebola in rare good news from outbreak in CongoAP News• Jun 17, 2026 06:34 am
Africa’s Ebola outbreaks complicated by victims who prefer traditional healers over hospitalsAP News• Jun 17, 2026 05:13 am
Congo opposition condemns new bill seen as opening the way for a third term for President TshisekediAP News• Jun 16, 2026 11:38 am
African and Commonwealth nations in Kenya urge quick execution of a key treaty protecting oceansAP News• Jun 16, 2026 10:25 am
Authorities say at least 9 dead, 25 hurt after a train and bus collide in ZimbabweAP News• Jun 16, 2026 04:58 am
UN-backed court opens trial of former Central African Republic president BozizéAP News• Jun 16, 2026 04:56 am
South Africa marks 50 years since Soweto uprising by students, but challenges linger for its youthAP News• Jun 15, 2026 06:20 pm