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  • A signboard for St Mary's Private Catholic Secondary School stands at the entrance of the school in Papiri, Agwarra local government, Niger state, on November 23, 2025. Fifty of the more than 300 children snatched by gunmen from a Catholic school in Nigeria have escaped their captors, a Christian group said in a statement on November 23. "We have received some good news as fifty pupils escaped and have reunited with their parents," said the Christian Association of Nigeria in a statement, adding they escaped between November 21 and 22. Gunmen raided early November 21 St Mary's co-education school in Niger state in western Nigeria, taking 303 children and 12 teachers in one of the largest mass kidnappings in Nigeria.
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    Fifty students escape captors after mass kidnapping in Nigeria but more than 250 still held
  • Working session at G20 summit, Expo-Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa - 23 Nov 2025
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    The G20 summit in South Africa ends with the glaring absence of the US after Trump’s boycott
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    Armed bandits kidnap more than 300 students from Catholic school in Nigeria
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    Video CNN finds evidence Tanzanian police killed protesters 5:04
  • The National Christian Church in the central business district in Abuja, Nigeria, on May 21, 2025.
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    Nigerian officials in Washington after Trump’s threats of military action over violence against Christians
  • Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu is seen at the Federal high court Abuja, Nigeria on January 20, 2016.
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    Nigerian court convicts separatist leader Kanu for terrorism
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    Video He relied on USAID for HIV care. Hear his message to Trump 1:18
  • Nicki Minaj poses during the Met Gala in New York City on May 5, 2025.
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    Nicki Minaj’s diplomatic moment, explained

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  • A woman sits outside a makeshift shelter at the Eduardo Mondlane camp for the internally displaced, outside Mueda town, northern Mozambique. Many new arrivals who have fled the recent ISIS offensive build new homes from bamboo and tarpaulins, bound together with used fishermen’s netting, and enter the camps with almost no food or possessions.
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    In Mozambique, an ISIS insurgency is newly energized as US cuts impact aid programs
  • ‘Oh my God, this is our Tanzania’: CNN investigation shows police fatally shooting protesters, signs of mass graves
  • The violence in Nigeria that Trump cites as a reason for military strikes is not limited to Christians
  • Rebels accused of massacring hundreds of people as videos emerge of atrocities and bodies in Sudanese city
  • Bloodbath feared as rebels trap thousands in Sudan city. How did we get here and what might come next?
  • Gen Z protesters toppled Madagascar’s president. Should other African leaders worry?
  • From Morocco to Madagascar, Gen Z is taking digital dissent offline
  • A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died
  • In Africa, Russia is swapping a ruthless paramilitary for a replica it can control. What’s Putin’s game plan?
  • Trump’s tariffs are sending African countries into China’s hands
  • ‘Not Trump’s dumping ground’: Outrage over arrival of foreign US deportees in tiny African nation
  • Trump wants to talk business with Africa in hopes of countering China. But a US summit excludes Africa’s big players
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African Voices Changemakers

  • <p>From fleeing war in Somalia to making Olympic history, Ramla Ali has fought her way from survivor to symbol of hope. She’s not only the first Somali to box at the Olympics, but a global advocate for women and refugees, using sport as her platform for change. Larry Madowo tells her story in our latest African Voices Playmakers.</p>
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  • Video How two of Africa’s top female fighters are using their platform for change 23:02
  • Video How NBA Africa’s CEO Clare Akamanzi is using basketball to fuel opportunity and growth 23:02
  • Video How two guardians of Nigerian heritage are preserving culture 23:03
  • ‘I didn’t feel safe, I didn’t feel seen’: Why Nigerian star Tems is clearing a path for African women in music
  • How Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie fought through creative block and depression
  • Video The viral rise of Acholitronics and Zamrock 22:52
  • Video Activist athletes Ejike Ugboaja and Deo Kato advocate for change through sports 22:58

Inside Africa

  • Actress Lupita Nyong'o attends the Vanity Fair Oscar Party at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, California, on March 2, 2025.
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    Video Why Lupita Nyong’o refused roles after her oscar win 1:43
  • Africa’s ‘cryptic’ golden cat is so rare, no one knows how many there are. AI is changing that
  • Tattoo artist draws on deep connections to ancient Nigerian art forms
  • More than $1 billion and two decades later, the Grand Egyptian Museum is — finally — ready to share its treasures
  • Meet the Welsh puppies that are stopping wildlife poachers in Africa

Connecting Africa

  • Bako Motors designed the Bee, an electric vehicle with solar panels on its roof, for daily in-city trips.
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    The solar-powered compact car driving Tunisia’s electric vehicle revolution
  • App that translates speech to sign language in real-time wins top innovation prize
  • Video Moving Africa forward through innovative transportation 23:05
  • This drone manufacturer wants to protect Africa’s power, mining and oil assets
  • Video Unlocking Africa’s creative economy 23:03
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African start-up

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    This company’s edible skincare products are full of ‘raw Ghanaian goodness’
  • This Rwandan entrepreneur turns discarded tires into fashionable footwear
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  • Solar-charging backpacks are helping children to read after dark

Africa Avant Garde

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    This Lagos museum is challenging the traditional ‘Eurocentric’ model
  • Nigerian cinema in the spotlight as ‘My Father’s Shadow’ to premiere in Cannes Film Festival first
  • Inside Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo’s rise to art-world stardom
  • This Nigerian designer is making waves with her ‘four-dimensional’ fashion
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  • <p>Alfort Petroleum CEO Gianni Martins believes there is a long runway ahead when it comes to the country's oil and gas output.</p>
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  • Qatar's chief negotiator Mohammed al-Khulaifi (C) observes as Sumbu Sita Mambu (L), a high representative of the head of state in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and and Rwanda-backed armed group M23 executive secretary Benjamin Mbonimpa (R) as they shake hands during the signing ceremony of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the DRC Government and the Congo River Alliance/March 23 Movement (AFC/M23) at the Sheraton Hotel in Doha, on November 15, 2025.
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    How traffickers deep in the Sahara are extorting ransom payments from refugees’ families
  • People protest in the streets of Arusha, Tanzania during the election day on October 29, 2025.
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    UN secretary-general warns that war in Sudan is ‘spiraling out of control’
  • Christians depart St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church after a Sunday mass in Palmgrove, Lagos, Nigeria, on November 2, 2025.
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    Trump saw a segment on Fox News. Within an hour, he was laser-focused on Christians’ treatment in Nigeria
  • People gather at a petrol station due to shortage of petrol in Bamako, Mali October 7, 2025.
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    Jihadi fighters affiliated with al Qaeda close in on Mali’s capital, as instability grows across Sahel region

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