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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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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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  • The Associated Press
Children selling a drink made from hibiscus flowers in Jebel Aulia, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Khartoum where the last battles over control of the capital city took place. The Sudanese government took the city back from rebel forces in March.

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  • Global Health

Bikes and bakeries are back: War-torn Khartoum struggles to rebuild

Government forces retook the capital city from rebel troops in April. Now comes the task of rebuilding what was once a bustling metropolis on the Nile.

May 16, 2025
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By:
  • Emmanuel Akinwotu
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the opening session of the G20 foreign ministers meeting in Johannesburg in February.

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  • Africa

Trump to meet South African president amid deteriorating relations

The visit comes as relations between the U.S. and South Africa are at their lowest since the end of apartheid. Trump has repeatedly claimed that "terrible things are happening" in South Africa.

May 15, 2025
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By:
  • Kate Bartlett
White Afrikaaner South Africans demonstrate in support of U.S. President Donald Trump in front of the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, Feb. 15, 2025.

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  • Africa

First group of Afrikaners granted refugee status are on their way to the U.S.

The first group of white Afrikaner South Africans granted refugee status by Trump administration enroute to U.S. as most other refugee admissions still suspended.

May 12, 2025
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  • Kate Bartlett
Afrikaan South Africans supporting US President Donald Trump and South African and US tech billionaire Elon Musk gather in front of the US Embassy in Pretoria, on February 15, 2025 for a demonstration.

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  • Africa

First Afrikaners granted refugee status due to arrive in U.S.

Three months ago, President Trump signed an executive order telling white Afrikaans South Africans they could apply for refugee status in the U.S. The first group has been swiftly processed and is set to arrive on U.S. soil Monday

May 09, 2025
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By:
  • Kate Bartlett
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer prepares a Salvadoran immigrant without legal status for a deportation flight.

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  • Politics

Trump administration plans to deport migrants to Libya

A U.S. official has confirmed to NPR that the Trump administration is planning to deport migrants to Libya, as immigration lawyers scramble to block any flights.

May 07, 2025
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  • Kate Bartlett
Smoke billows after drone strikes by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) targeted the northern port in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, on Tuesday.

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  • Africa

Port Sudan was a safe haven in Sudan's civil war. Now it's being attacked

The strikes are the first on the de-facto capital along the Red Sea. About a quarter of a million refugees have fled to the state where Port Sudan resides since the civil war erupted two years ago.

May 06, 2025
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  • Emmanuel Akinwotu

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  • Global Health

What Trump's first 100 days has meant for these truck drivers and sex workers

In Zambia, truck drivers and sex workers have high rates of being HIV positive —- and are at high risk of contracting the virus. Here's how they have been affected by the administration's policies.

April 29, 2025
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel,
  • Rebecca Davis,
  • and 1 more
Angeline Murimirwa of Zimbabwe has really racked up kudos for her work as head of CAMFED, a charity that has enabled millions of girls in five African countries to stay in school — and thrive with the help of mentors. Murimirwa is one of <em>Time</em> Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2025. Above: She accepts an award at Rihanna's 3rd Annual Diamond Ball in 2017.

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  • Global Health

Angie Murimirwa: From hiding in the bathroom to Time's most influential people list

A kid whose parents couldn't afford school fees is now an "icon" on Time magazine's 2025 list — recognizing her work as CEO of Camfed, a charity that gives millions of girls a chance for an education.

April 25, 2025
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By:
  • Marc Silver

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  • Africa

Photos: Two years of war in Sudan

Images of Sudan, after two years of civil war have led to the world biggest humanitarian crisis.

April 15, 2025
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  • Faiz Abubakr,
  • Tara Neill,
  • and 1 more
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced on April 13 that it had taken control of the famine-hit Zamzam camp for the internally displaced. Here, people who fled the Zamzam camp after it fell under RSF control rest in a makeshift encampment in an open field in Sudan's western Darfur region on Sunday.

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  • World

Sudan's war is 2 years in and shows no signs of slowing, as talks take place

As "pathway to peace talks" are held in London - minus the main protagonists - Sudan tips into a third year of catastrophic civil war, as violence surges in the Darfur region of the west of the country and activists warn of an unfolding genocide.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • Emmanuel Akinwotu
Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu speaks at the opening ceremony of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in September, 2024.

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  • Africa

Attack leaves at least 40 people dead in Nigeria, the country's president says

Such attacks have become common in north-central Nigeria, where gunmen exploit security lapses to launch deadly raids on farmers in a fight over land resources.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Displaced Sudanese, who fled the Zamzam camp, gather near the town of Tawila in North Darfur

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  • World

In Sudan, hundreds killed in attacks on famine-hit displacement camps

Sudanese paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces has claimed it has taken control of famine-hit Zamzam camp, after days of deadly fighting in the Darfur region.

April 14, 2025
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By:
  • Emmanuel Akinwotu
Left to right: Tyler Thompson Jr., Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun and Marcel Malanga upon their release from a Congolese prison.

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  • World

American DRC coup plotters are on their way back to U.S.

The three young men, who were sentenced to death for their part in an attempted coup in the Democratic Republic of Congo last May, were handed over to U.S. authorities and are on their way to the U.S.

April 08, 2025
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