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  • Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa in Johannesburg in 2017.
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    South African ambassador had faced corruption claims before he was found dead at foot of Paris hotel
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  • Protesters at a youth-led demonstration in Rabat, Morocco, on September 29.
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  • Nkosinathi Emmanuel Mthethwa, 58, was appointed ambassador to France in 2023.
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  • <p>As tourist numbers continue to rise worldwide, African wildlife parks are facing unprecedented challenges. In Kenya’s iconic Maasai Mara National Reserve, the number of wildebeest migrating has dropped as tourist numbers have risen. Now, local and park officials must find the delicate balancing act required to ensure the preservation of the migration amid ever-growing travel demands.</p>
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  • Former President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila walks back into his house after posing for a group photo with religious leaders at one of his residences in Goma on May 29, 2025.
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    DR Congo military court sentences former President Kabila to death in absentia for treason
  • Kenyan workers prepare clothes for export at the New Wide Garment Export Processing Zone (EPZ) factory operating under the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), in Kitengela, Kajiado County, Kenya on September 19, 2025.
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  • A protester throws back a tear gas canister lobbed by Malagasy riot police during a demonstration denouncing frequent power outages and water shortages, near the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar September 29, 2025. REUTERS/Zo Andrianjafy
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  • Yagana Usman gestures toward her infant twin's grave while holding her surviving son in her arms at the Fulatari camp for internally displaced persons in Borno, northeastern Nigeria, on September 5, 2025.
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    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
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  • Trump wants to talk business with Africa in hopes of countering China. But a US summit excludes Africa’s big players
  • As two African nations sign a peace deal, Trump wants credit. But some fear peace may still elude them
  • US foreign aid cuts threaten decades of progress on driving down malaria
  • Trump fast-tracked processing of White South African refugees. But not everyone wants to leave
  • The world’s youngest country fought for decades to govern itself. Now it’s on the cusp of another civil war
  • Sudan’s army has captured the capital. Is it a turning point in the devastating conflict?
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  • Trump wants to protect South Africa’s White farmers. But potential changes to trade privileges would hurt them
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  • <p>As tourist numbers continue to rise worldwide, African wildlife parks are facing unprecedented challenges. In Kenya’s iconic Maasai Mara National Reserve, the number of wildebeest migrating has dropped as tourist numbers have risen. Now, local and park officials must find the delicate balancing act required to ensure the preservation of the migration amid ever-growing travel demands.</p>
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  • In the medical stockroom of Kuoyo Sub-county Hospital in Kisumu, Kenya, a nurse holds a USAID-labeled box containing antiretroviral medicine in April, as US funding cuts ripple through the local health system.
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  • South Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar attends a meeting of Pope Francis with authorities, leaders of civil society and the diplomatic corps, in the garden of the Presidential Palace in Juba, February 3, 2023. Pope Francis landed in Juba, in the first visit to South Sudan by a pope since the predominantly Christian nation gained independence from Muslim-majority Sudan in 2011 after decades of bloody struggle. (Photo by Simon MAINA / AFP) (Photo by SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images)
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    ICC opens war crimes case against Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony
  • Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed delivers his remarks during the official inauguration ceremony of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in Guba, on September 9, 2025. Ethiopia inaugurated the continent's largest hydroelectric project on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed calling it a "great achievement for all black people" despite years of diplomatic rancour over the dam with downstream neighbour Egypt. (Photo by Luis TATO / AFP) (Photo by LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Ethiopia launches massive hydropower dam against bitter Egyptian opposition
  • Jesus Muñoz Gutierrez attends a press conference at the Juba International Airport in Juba, South Sudan, before being repatriated Saturday.
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  • Infrared thermometers are ready to be distributed by the United Nayions organization UNICEF at a ceremony in Mbandaka on May 21, 2018. - The death toll in an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rose to 26 on May 21, 2018, after a person died in the northwest city of Mbandaka, the government said, as it began vaccinating first responders against the dreaded disease. (Photo by Junior D. KANNAH / AFP) (Photo by JUNIOR D. KANNAH/AFP via Getty Images)
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