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Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, the daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma, appears in court on charges of terrorism in Durban, South Africa, 11 November 2025. She pleaded not guilty to terrorism-related charges at the start of her trial. Zuma-Sambudla is being charged over comments she made on social media four years ago during deadly protests following the arrest of her father.
Jacob Zuma's daughter Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla appears in court, Durban, South Africa - 11 Nov 2025
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    Zuma’s daughter quits South Africa parliament over Russia recruitment allegations
  • TOPSHOT - Guinea Bissau Army general Horta N'Tam (C) poses with other military leaders after being  sworn in as the transition leader and the leader of the High Command in Bissau on November 27, 2025. The Guinea-Bissau military appointed a general as the country's new leader Thursday for one year, a day after seizing power and arresting the president of the coup-prone west African nation.
"I have just been sworn in to lead the High Command," General Horta N'Tam declared after taking the oath of office in a ceremony at the military's headquarters, AFP journalists observed. Dozens of heavily armed soldiers were deployed at the scene. (Photo by Patrick MEINHARDT / AFP via Getty Images)
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    General sworn in as Guinea-Bissau transitional president, army says, in swift power grab after disputed election
  • Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo.
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    Army officers say they have seized power in Guinea-Bissau
  • South African President Cyril Ramaphosa meets with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in May.
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    Trump administration is not planning to invite South Africa to G20 in US, source says
  • A disheveled dorm room is seen on November 17, after 25 students were abducted from the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga town, Nigeria.
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    Two dozen schoolgirls freed after kidnapping in northwestern Nigeria last week
  • Sudan's military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan is greeted by troops as he arrives at the Republican Palace, recently recaptured from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, in Khartoum on March 26.
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    Sudan’s top general rejects US-led ceasefire proposal, calling it ‘the worst yet’
  • A satellite image shows ash rising from the eruption of the Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia as it drifts over the Red Sea, November 23, 2025.
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    This volcano erupted for the first time in 10,000 years sending ash clouds across continents
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    Video Bearded vulture on the brink: Conservationists in South Africa and Lesotho race to save this raptor 4:00
  • 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

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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
  • After surviving a horrific buffalo attack, these conservationists doubled down on protecting nature
  • 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

Connecting Africa

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    Video Reducing hunger in Africa 23:00
  • 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
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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
  • Video Crafting Senegal’s leather industry 1:47
  • 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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Marketplace africa

  • <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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    The G20 summit in South Africa ends with the glaring absence of the US after Trump’s boycott
  • Scenes from the Papiri Community, in the Agwara local government area.
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  • 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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    Gunmen kidnap 25 schoolgirls from Nigerian school, kill vice principal
  • Evening tranquility at Mogadishu's Liido Beach Somalia.
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    If Somalia is dangerous, why is it experiencing a surge in tourism?
  • 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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    Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels sign framework for peace deal in latest bid to end decades-long conflict

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