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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..
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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.
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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.
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The new PBS documentary “Made in Ethiopia” explores China’s increasing investment footprint in Africa through three women whose lives are deeply affected by the largest industrial park in Ethiopia.
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.
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Leaders from several West African nations are in Washington this week as part of a three-day mini-summit the White House described as an effort to expand “commercial opportunities.”
President Trump is hosting 5 African leaders in Washington this week — a selective 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.
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In the fertile central region, the fights between herders and farmers for land access has become violent. We go to one village where over 160 people were killed in what villagers say was an effort to drive them off their farms.
Battles between herders and farmers over access to land in Nigeria’s fertile central region have led to violent clashes and no easy answers.
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have signed what President Trump is calling a peace deal. But the text leaves lots of questions in a complicated war in a mineral rich region of Africa.