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This aerial view shows Agadez old city in Niger.

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An Austrian woman has been kidnapped in Niger’s Agadez city, authorities say

Sudanese citizens celebrate in Port Sudan, Sudan, following an announcement by the army that it had taken the city of Wad Madani, on January 11.

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Sudanese army enters strategic city held by RSF rebel group for over a year

Masked men with guns and teargas canisters on the back of a police truck in Nairobi. A Kenyan judge ordered has previously police officers on duty to be clearly identifiable.

Kenyan government critics mysteriously disappeared. They came back silenced

Chad's transitional president and presidential election candidate Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, looks on during a final presidential election campaign rally at the place des nations in N'Djamena on May 4, 2024. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP) (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images)

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Attack on Chad’s presidential palace leaves 19 dead

Mozambique's main opposition leader Venancio Mondlane (C) arrives in Maputo on January 9, 2025.

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Mozambique opposition leader returns from exile as police fire tear gas at his supporters

TOPSHOT - A man stands by as a fire rages in a livestock market area in al-Fasher, the capital of Sudan's North Darfur state, on September 1, 2023, in the aftermath of bombardment by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The conflict between Sudan's army under General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the RSF commanded by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo spread in late August 2023 to North Darfur state, with at least 27 localities burned down by the RSF and allied Arab militias, according to the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

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US determines Sudan’s RSF paramilitary group committed genocide in country’s civil war

French President Emmanuel Macron attends the conference "Investing together, for a new alliance between Africa and Europe" organised by the French Development Agency (AFD) at the Station F startup campus in Paris on February 16, 2022.

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Macron’s claim that Africans failed to say ‘thank you’ for French military aid sparks outrage

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives on the first day of his trial with twelve other defendants on charges of corruption and illegal financing of an election campaign related to alleged Libyan funding of his successful 2007 presidential bid, at the courthouse in Paris, France, January 6, 2025. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

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France’s Sarkozy goes on trial over alleged Libyan campaign financing

The flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo pictured in St. Petersburg, Russia, on June 9, 2024.

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Congo will execute more than 170 people convicted of armed robbery, official says

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A man walks while smoke rises above buildings after aerial bombardment, during clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum North, Sudan, May 1, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

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Genocide is declared once more in Sudan. How did the country get here?

A price too high to pay? Pollution from Ghana’s gold rush sparks maternal health fears

‘The world doesn’t see us:’ What a militia chief said while holding me captive in Darfur

Millions have escaped Sudan’s civil war. But their nightmare isn’t over

‘The hostility was something I’d never experienced before’: The cost to women of the overlooked rise of Kenya’s manosphere

EVs are starting to overtake gas-powered cars in a surprising place

African cities sitting on ‘keg of gunpowder’ as growing youth anger fuels unrest

The British Army trains in Kenya. Many women say soldiers raped them and abandoned children they fathered

Against the backdrop of rising anti-LGBTQ sentiment, these Nigerian fashion labels feel forced to show in private

Jacob Zuma has made a dramatic comeback in South Africa’s elections. Will he have the last laugh over Ramaphosa?

Nelson Mandela’s party has been dealt a seismic election blow. Where does it leave South Africa?

Nelson Mandela’s party has ruled South Africa for three decades – it now faces a critical moment of truth

African Voices Changemakers

Actor Djimon Hounsou in front of the Emancipation and Freedom Monument in Richmond, Virginia.

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Video Actor Djimon Hounsou sparks Pan-African unity through nonprofit 23:00

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She was a teenage mother in Detroit. Now she’s a Ghanaian ‘Queen’

Video How Bongo Flava Icon Alikiba and Ghanaian rapper Kofi Kinaata are using their star power to make a difference 23:02

Video Yemi Alade reflects on her career and recent grammy nomination 23:12

Video Meet the elite Nigerian athletes making moves in American Football 22:57

Why Ghanaian singer King Promise and other African artists don’t want to be boxed into Afrobeats

Video Ghanaian singer King Promise champions African music on the global stage 23:06

Inside Africa

TOPSHOT - Participants dance as they parade during the Calabar Carnival in Calabar on December 28, 2024. Calabar Carnival is an annual carnival held in Cross River State, Nigeria: it is celebrated every December to mark Christmas celebration yearly. The quality of the festival has grown over the years making it Nigeria's biggest carnival and an internationally recognized festival. (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images)

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How Nigeria’s biggest city became the world’s hottest winter party destination

This alien plant is lethal for the environment. Now it’s being turned into a plastic to regrow forests

How giant rodents could rat on wildlife traffickers

The gigantic dunes rising up out of the world’s oldest desert

Hydrogen-powered skyscraper set for Egypt’s new capital

A South African vineyard is dropping predatory wasps from drones to keep its grapes free from bugs

Connecting Africa

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The $1 billion ‘electricity highway’ that allows Ethiopia and Kenya to share their power

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‘We don’t want to leave anyone behind,’ says Google’s Alex Okosi on the company’s drive to cut data costs in Africa

A rejuvenated railway could change how minerals move in Africa – and globally

Electric motorcycle completes solar-powered 6,000-kilometer journey through Africa

African start-up

Dr Funmi Adewara- Founder and CEO of Mobihealth International- a multi award winning Telehealth company improving access to affordable healthcare for women and children in underserved communities in Africa.

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How Mobihealth is driving a telemedicine revolution in Africa

Chowdeck is hungry for Nigeria’s food delivery market. One day, it wants to be a ‘super-app for Africa’

This Nigerian company wants to be the Airbnb of car rentals

From Nigeria to London: Nelly Agbogu is on a mission to elevate African small businesses

Africa Avant Garde

"Mufasa: The Lion King" examines the turbulent relationship between brothers Mufasa and Scar.

Barry Jenkins on why ‘Mufasa’ contains the ‘voice of Africa’

‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’: The anti-apartheid photographer who turned his lens on Black America

Art historian and curator Alayo Akinkugbe on reframing Blackness

For Nigerian artist Nengi Omuku every painting has two sides

Call to earth

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Angola nearly lost its national animal to poaching. Here’s how a team of dedicated conservationists brought it back

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Tinotenda Pudu, 7, went missing for five-days before he was rescued from a national park in Zimbabwe.

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Boy, 7, found alive in ‘lion-infested’ Zimbabwe game park after going missing for five days

TOPSHOT - This aerial view shows people trying to salvage items from the burned down secondhand clothing market at Kantamanto in Accra, Ghana, on January 2, 2025. The fire at the Kantamanto market began in the early morning hours, destroying a large part of the area and displacing thousands of traders. (Photo by Nipah Dennis / AFP) (Photo by NIPAH DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

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Huge fire at Ghanaian clothing market destroys hundreds of stalls

Detective Inspector Titus Phiri “forcibly seized cell keys” on Tuesday morning whilst “in a state of intoxication,” Zambia’s Police Service said in a press release on Wednesday.

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Police officer arrested after allegedly releasing prisoners to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Zambia

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Dozens die in shipwrecks off Tunisia as 2025 is already deadly for migrants in Mediterranean

The al-Khadim base, near Benghazi in eastern Libya, on December 10, 2024.

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Spike in Russian flights from Syria to Libyan desert base as Moscow eyes new Mediterranean hub

Riot police lob tear gas canisters as they attempt to disperse protesters demonstrating against what they say is a wave of unexplained abductions of government critics, along the Aga Khan walk in downtown Nairobi, Kenya December 30, 2024.

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Kenyan lawmaker among dozens arrested during anti-abduction protests

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Shark attack at Egyptian Red Sea resort kills one foreigner, injures another

The accident occurred in Ethiopia's Bona district.

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At least 71 people killed in Ethiopia road accident, officials say

Kenyan President William Ruto inspects a ceremonial honor guard following his arrival at the Parliament buildings where he will deliver a State of the Nation address in Nairobi on November 21, 2024.

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Kenya’s president promises to stop abductions following wave of disappearances

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Dozens of migrants dead after boat sinks off Morocco, Mali says

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At least 10 killed after Nigerian military jet targeting bandits bombs civilians

Protesters gather next to a burning barricade in Maputo on December 23, 2024. Mozambique's highest court confirmed Monday the ruling party's victory in a disputed October vote after allegations of rigging triggered weeks of deadly street clashes. Fears are high that more violence could break out in the southern African nation after the opposition threatened to call an uprising following the decision.

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Mozambique police commander says 33 dead, 1,500 escaped in Maputo prison riot

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