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News Articles: Africa

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa at the annual BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro,  July 6, 2025.

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South Africa's president creates commission to look at police corruption allegations

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has suspended the police minister and launched a sweeping inquiry into alleged sabotage at the highest levels of law enforcement..

July 14, 2025
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By:
  • Kate Bartlett
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari speaks to the media after casting his vote in his hometown of Daura, in northern Nigeria, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

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  • Africa

Nigeria's former President Muhammadu Buhari dies at 82

Nigeria's former president Muhammadu Buhari — who once ruled as a military dictator before returning decades later as an elected leader — has died at 82.

July 13, 2025
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By:
  • Emmanuel Akinwotu
Nigeria's government is pushing back against U.S. efforts to send the country migrants and foreign prisoners, with Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar, seen here at a summit in Brazil this year, quoting Public Enemy to drive home his point.

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  • Africa

Nigeria says it won't accept deportees from U.S.: 'We have enough problems of our own'

Nigeria's government is pushing back against U.S. efforts to send the country migrants and foreign prisoners, with Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar quoting Public Enemy to drive home his point.

July 11, 2025
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By:
  • Emmanuel Akinwotu
This plaque inside a medical facility in Pretoria states that it was funded by the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

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  • Global Health

UNAIDS report warns HIV progress at risk as U.S. funding cuts take hold

The UNAIDS annual report warns that Trump era HIV funding cuts could lead to 6 million more infections and 4 million deaths by 2029 — as low-income countries struggle to fill the gap.

July 10, 2025
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By:
  • Kate Bartlett
State Rep. El-Mahdi Holly

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  • Africa

Georgia Africa Legislative Caucus says proposed travel ban will hurt the U.S.

Members of the Georgia Africa Legislative caucus are asking Secretary of State Marco Rubio to reconsider a potential travel ban for some African countries. 

July 10, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
This aerial view show trucks loading sand from a quarry on the outskirts of Nouakchott, Mauritania, on March 14, 2023.

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  • Africa

What's on the table for the 5 African Presidents meeting Trump at the White House?

President Trump is hosting 5 African leaders in Washington this week — a mini summit that's raising eyebrows over who was invited, what's on the table, and what it signals about U.S. rivalry with China and BRICS in Africa.

July 09, 2025
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By:
  • Jewel Bright

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  • Global Health

An AIDS orphan, a pastor and his frantic search for the meds that keep her alive

In the wake of U.S. aid cuts, Pastor Billy is reminded of his twin sister's death from AIDS. He doesn't want 9-year-old Diana, who's HIV-positive, to meet the same fate.

June 13, 2025
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel,
  • Rebecca Davis,
  • and 1 more
A protester holds a banner and shouts at a Kenyan police officer during a demonstration over the death of Kenyan blogger Albert Ojwang, who died in police custody. June 12 2025

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  • Africa

Protests erupt in Kenya's capital over blogger's death in police custody

Demonstrators take to the streets in Kenya's capitol over the suspicious death of a popular blogger in police custody — a flashpoint of outrage in a country still reeling from last year's deadly crackdown on anti-tax protests.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Emmanuel Igunza
Kenyan journalist and human rights activist Boniface Mwangi (R) and Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire (L) during a joint press conference in Nairobi on June 2, 2025 following their three-day detention and alleged torture by Tanzanian authorities.

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  • Africa

Torture and treason trials: what's happening in Tanzania?

Tanzania's government is facing growing accusations of repression after prominent human rights defenders say they were beaten and sexually assaulted while in custody.

June 07, 2025
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By:
  • Kate Bartlett
People who fled violence in Darfur walk through a makeshift encampment in the western Darfur region on April 13, 2025.

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  • Africa

Darfur: bearing the brunt of over two years of civil war in Sudan

An attack on what would have been the first aid delivery to the beseiged city of El Fasher in over a year has dealt a major blow in the Darfur region. The assault comes as humanitarian groups warn that collapsing healthcare, unrelenting violence, and a paralyzed aid effort are pushing civilians to breaking point.

June 04, 2025
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By:
  • Kate Bartlett
The extension of the Southern Expressway from Matara to Hambantota shown near Hambantota, Sri Lanka, in 2018 — a major infrastructure project funded by China as part of Beijing's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative.

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  • World

China is now the biggest debt collector in the developing world, report says

Developing countries owe billions to China, which threatens to undermine poverty reduction efforts and fuel instability, according to a new report from Australia's Lowy Institute.

May 28, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman
US President Donald Trump, right, and Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's president, second right, as a video plays during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.

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  • Africa

Trump's debunked 'burial site' video reopens 'wounds,' says victim's son

Trump's misleading video of a 'burial site' for white South African farmers reopened 'new wounds,' victim's son tells NPR.

May 24, 2025
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By:
  • Kate Bartlett
President Trump meets South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday.

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  • Africa

South Africa's president is praised for staying calm during Trump's Oval Office ambush

South Africans credit President Cyril Ramaphosa for keeping his cool as President Trump made a choreographed presentation accusing the country of murdering white farmers.

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • Kate Bartlett
South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks to journalists during the eighth EU-South Africa summit in Cape Town, South Africa, in March.

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  • Africa

South Africa's president heads to the White House. Can he charm Trump?

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa heads to the White House today for conciliatory talks with one of his country's most persistent critics: President Trump.

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Kate Bartlett
Hundreds of Rwandan refugees who were living in eastern Congo since the 1994 Rwanda genocide are repatriated by bus from Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Saturday, May 17, 2025.

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  • Africa

Hundreds of Rwandans who fled to Congo after the 1994 genocide return home

The U.N. refugee agency said it helped repatriate 360 Rwandan refugees, mostly women and children, as part of a broader plan to return about 2,000 people home.

May 18, 2025
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