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Miners work at the D4 Gakombe coltan mining quarry in Rubaya, Congo, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)
Mine collapses in eastern Congo, leaving at least 200 dead
Rebel authorities in eastern Congo say at least 200 people were killed in a landslide at coltan mines.
 
FILE- Motorcyclists ride by the entrance of the airport in Niamey, Niger, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick, File)
Islamic State claims responsibility for attack on air force base in Niger’s capital
The Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility for an attack on an air force base in Niger’s capital.
 
American YouTuber and online streamer Darren Jason Watkins Jr., known as IShowSpeed, meets fans at Independence Square in Accra, Ghana, during his Africa tour, Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Tsraha Yaw)
IShowSpeed wraps up Africa tour highlighting the continent’s cultural diversity
The American streamer and YouTuber IShowSpeed is wrapping up a 28-day tour of Africa aimed at showcasing the continent’s cultural diversity.
 
Participants walk out of the ocean after a group aquatic therapy session in Dakar, Senegal, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
Senegal’s aquagym classes offer hope and healing for people with reduced mobility
Senegal’s first aquagym program has drawn praise from health professionals for helping people with reduced mobility caused by noncommunicable diseases.
 
People wait to receive food donations from the United Nations World Food Program in Damasak, northeastern Nigeria, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Chinedu Asadu, File)
UN warns of ‘catastrophic’ hunger crisis in Nigeria as food aid funding runs out
The U.N. World Food Program warns that over a million people in northeast Nigeria could lose emergency food aid soon without new funding.
 
The Senegalese soccer team rides through thousands of cheering fans celebrating their victory in the Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament, in Dakar, Senegal, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
Senegal’s triumphant return: Fans flood Dakar streets for Africa Cup of Nations victory parade
Senegal’s team receives a heroes’ welcome in Dakar following their Africa Cup of Nations victory. On Tuesday, the players paraded through the capital in an open-top bus, celebrated by tens of thousands of fans.
 
Fans celebrate Senegal's victory of the Africa Cup of Nations final soccer match between Senegal and Morocco in Dakar, Senegal, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
Senegal erupts in joy after dramatic win to take the Africa Cup of Nations
Senegal is celebrating after its soccer team defeated Morocco 1-0 to win the Africa Cup of Nations. On Sunday night, fireworks lit up Dakar, and people danced in the streets, waving Senegalese flags.
 
Filly Mangassa, left, and Mamadou Camara, who are part of a growing trend of young Africans moving to rural areas for better work opportunities, throw peanut plants on a pile on a farm in Tambacounda, Senegal, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Banchereau)
Young Africans find hope in farming as urban life becomes too expensive
Farming has long been seen as low-status work across much of Africa, pushing young people to cities in search of office jobs.
 
Guinea's junta leader Col. Mamady Doumbouya watches over an independence day military parade in Bamako, Mali on Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo, File)
Guinea’s junta leader is expected to win first election since 2021 coup
Guineans are set to vote Sunday in their first presidential election since a military coup four years ago.
 
In this image from video, President of the Central African Republic Faustin-Archange Touadera casts his ballot at a polling station in Bangui, Central African Republic, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (AP Photo/File)
What to know about the Central African Republic ahead of its election
Central African Republic on Dec. 28 will hold presidential and legislative elections as concerns over armed groups have led to a growing reliance on Russia for security.
 
A MONUSCO blue helmet deployed near Kibumba, north of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Jan. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)
UN urges Rwanda to leave eastern Congo and extends peacekeeping mission for a year
The U.N. Security Council has urged Rwanda to withdraw its forces from eastern Congo and extended the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo for a year.
 
Burundian citizens who work in Uvira, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and could not cross back into their home country due to fighting, cross the border into Burundi, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels say they will withdraw from seized city in eastern Congo
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have announced they will withdrawal from Uvira, a strategic city in eastern Congo following U.S. pressure.
 
This courthouse sketch provided by TRIAL international dated Dec. 3, 2025, shows Me Henri Thulliez, left, lawyer for the plaintiffs in Paris during the trial of former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala, who received a 30- year sentence over atrocities committed by his fighters in eastern Congo in 2002 and 2003. (Augustin Guichot/TRIAL International via AP)
Former Congo rebel leader Lumbala sentenced to 30 years over wartime atrocities
Ex-Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala has been sentenced in France to 30 years in prison for atrocities committed during the Second Congo War.
 
United States ambassador to the United Nations Michael Waltz speaks during a Security Council meeting about Ukraine at United Nations headquarters, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
US accuses Rwanda of violating the peace deal as M23 rebels seize a key eastern Congo city
The United States has accused Rwanda of violating a peace agreement by supporting a rebel offensive in eastern Congo. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
 
Soldiers ride in a military vehicle along a street amid an attempted coup in Cotonou Benin, Sunday Dec. 6, 2025. (AP Photo)
Why some African countries are prone to military takeovers
It had become a familiar scene in West Africa. A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim they had seized power.
 
M23 rebels escort government soldiers and police who surrendered to an undisclosed location in Goma, Democratic republic of the Congo, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)
As Trump hosts Congo and Rwanda’s leaders for peace deal, here’s what to know about the conflict
U.S. President Donald Trump is hosting the leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda on Thursday for a deal-signing aimed at ending the conflict in Congo.
 
Women walk past people shopping at a market in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Darcicio Barbosa)
Guinea-Bissau’s latest coup sparks allegations of a staged takeover. Here’s what to know
Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have seized power, marking another military takeover in West Africa. The coup followed a contested presidential election where both President Umaro Sissoco Embaló and his main opponent claimed victory.
 
In this photo taken from video provided by TGB Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Bissau's new junta leader Gen. Horta Inta-A, takes an oath of office in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. (TGB Guinea-Bissau via AP)
Guinea-Bissau soldiers appoint ally of deposed president as prime minister
Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have appointed a close ally of the deposed president as prime minister after seizing power following disputed elections.
 
Dinis N’Tchama, military spokesperson, speaks on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025 in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. (TGB Guinea-Bissau via AP)
Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau appear on state television saying they have seized power
Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have appeared on state television to say they have seized power in the country following reports of gunshots near the presidential palace.
 
A vendor display local newspapers on the street of Lagos with headlines of the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, where gunmen on Monday attacked the school dormitory, abducted schoolgirls, in Kebbi Nigeria, Wednesday, Nov. 19 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba )
24 schoolgirls abducted from Kebbi in Nigeria have been rescued, president says
Nigeria’s president says that all 24 schoolgirls held by assailants following a mass abduction last week from a school in Kebbi in northwestern Nigeria have been rescued.
 
Presidential opposition candidate Issa Tchiroma, speaks to the press in Maroua, Cameroon, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Welba Yamo Pascal, File)
Cameroon opposition leader flees to Gambia after contested election
Gambia says it is temporarily hosting Cameroonian opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary after a disputed election in Cameroon.
 
Islamic State-backed rebels killed 89 people in multiple attacks in eastern Congo, UN says
The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo reports that an Islamic State-backed rebel group killed 89 people in eastern Congo.
 
In this photo released by Christian Association of Nigeria, a man walk past belongings at the St. Mary's Catholic Primary and Secondary School after gunmen abducted children and staff in Papiri community, Nigeria, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (Christian Association of Nigeria via AP)
Gunmen abduct more than 200 schoolchildren and 12 teachers in attack on Nigerian Catholic school
Gunmen have attacked a Catholic school in Nigeria, abducting more than 200 schoolchildren and 12 teachers.
 
At least 32 killed in southeastern Congo after bridge at mine collapsed, authorities say
At least 32 people have died after a bridge collapsed at a copper and cobalt mine in southeastern Congo.
 
M23 rebels escort government soldiers and police who surrendered to an undisclosed location in Goma, Democratic republic of the Congo, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)
Congo and M23 rebels sign framework for peace deal in latest bid to end decades-long conflict
Congo and the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 have signed a framework agreement for a peace deal. The agreement, signed on Saturday in Doha, follows mediation by Qatar and the United States.
 
The Palais de Justice courthouse during nationwide confinement measures to counter the Covid-19, in Paris, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, file)
Ex-Congolese rebel leader on trial for war crimes in Paris begins hunger strike
Ex-Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala has begun a hunger strike to protest his trial in France. The trial began this week over atrocities committed during the Second Congo War.
 
Central African President Faustin-Archange Touadera arrives for the 19th Francophonie Summit, at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte, File)
Central African Republic leader cleared for third term in key vote followed closely by Russia
The Central African Republic’s top court has cleared President Faustin Archange Touadera to run in December’s election.
 
Ghana's President John Mahama speaks during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, unseen, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. (Ichiro Banno/Pool Photo via AP, File)
19 migrants deported by US to Ghana have been moved to an unknown location, lawyer says
Nineteen West African nationals deported by the U.S. to Ghana have been moved to an unknown location, according to a lawyer for one of the deportees.
 
The Palais de Justice courthouse during nationwide confinement measures to counter the Covid-19, in Paris, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, file)
Trial of former Congolese rebel leader Lumbala over wartime atrocities opens in Paris
The trial of Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala has begun in Paris over atrocities committed during the Second Congo War.
 
People walk on the road near Kibumba, north of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, as they flee fighting between Congolese forces and M23 rebels in North Kivu, May 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, file)
Congo and M23 rebels agree to create body to oversee potential ceasefire
Congo and the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 have agreed to establish an oversight mechanism for a potential permanent ceasefire.
 
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