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A view shows a large plume of smoke rising from a fuel depot in Port Sudan, Sudan, on May 6, 2025.
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Drone strikes pound Port Sudan, putting aid deliveries at risk
Delegation members from the United Arab Emirates and Sudan stand at the start of a hearing before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, on April 10, 2025.
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Top UN court dismisses Sudan’s genocide case against UAE
A view of Hope Hostel, in Kigali, Rwanda, where irregular immigrants from the United Kingdom were to be deported to.
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Rwanda in talks to receive migrants deported from US, foreign minister says
President of Kenya William Ruto
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Shoe thrown at Kenya’s President Ruto during rally
Smoke rises from the airport of Port Sudan, the seat of the Sudanese army-aligned government on the Red Sea coast, following reported attacks early on Sunday. No casualties were reported.
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Sudan’s RSF conducts first drone attack on Port Sudan, army spokesperson says
A fire burns following an aerial bombardment at a hospital runs by Médecins Sans Frontières in the northern town of Old Fangak in South Sudan.
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Hospital bombing kills 7 amid fears South Sudan is returning to civil war
Kenyan parliamentary staff and forensic experts secure the vehicle in which slain Kenyan lawmaker Charles Were was shot dead by gunmen in Nairobi on April 30, 2025.
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Kenya police say lawmaker’s killing ‘targeted and premeditated’
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Yemen’s Houthi rebels allege US airstrike hit a prison holding African migrants
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Gunmen kill at least 20 people in gold mining village of Nigeria’s Zamfara state

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South Sudan soldiers patrol the street in Juba, South Sudan, on February 13, 2025.
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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?
Accounts of child survivors shed light on surge of rape and sexual violence in conflict-torn DRC
Trump wants to protect South Africa’s White farmers. But potential changes to trade privileges would hurt them
Fighting in Africa’s mineral-rich DRC killed over 3,000 in less than 2 weeks. Here’s how your phone plays a part
South Africa does have a history of racist land inequality. Just not in the way Trump and Musk are portraying
Violence erupts in mineral-rich DR Congo as rebels move into key city. Here’s what we know
Across Africa, Russia is growing in influence. What might Moscow want?
Genocide is declared once more in Sudan. How did the country get here?
A price too high to pay? Pollution from Ghana’s gold rush sparks maternal health fears
‘The world doesn’t see us:’ What a militia chief said while holding me captive in Darfur
EVs are starting to overtake gas-powered cars in a surprising place

African Voices Changemakers

<p>Cameroonian businessman Kingsley Pungong built an international talent management agency to propel African footballers to the world’s best leagues, while Tanzanian former beauty queen Faraja Nyalandu's innovation in education technology provides learning resources beyond her country’s borders.</p>
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Nigerian star Patoranking draws on his childhood dreams to help African youth
Video How Rwanda’s Bruce Melodie went from backup singer to hitmaker 23:02
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Inside Africa

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Meet the Welsh puppies that are stopping wildlife poachers in Africa
Nigerian traveler says her thwarted world record attempt shows ‘passport privilege’ is real
Gifted by an emperor, Ethiopia’s iconic Africa Hall has been renovated for a new era
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At over $10,000 per kilogram, Africa’s first caviar is surprising the luxury food industry

Connecting Africa

LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 25: Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) during a press conference on day two of the International Summit on the Future of Energy Security at Lancaster House on April 25, 2025 in London, England. This Summit examines the geopolitical, technological and economic factors affecting energy security at a national and international level. (Photo by Kin Cheung - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
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Energy is the ‘number one problem’ for Africa’s economy, says IEA director
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African start-up

UZURI K&Y sources tries from landfills in Rwanda to make the soles of sandals for their eco-friendly shoe line.
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This Rwandan entrepreneur turns discarded tires into fashionable footwear
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Solar-charging backpacks are helping children to read after dark
How Mobihealth is driving a telemedicine revolution in Africa

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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Hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah is seen in this undated handout photo.
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Family demands release of hunger-striking activist held in Egypt as fears grow for his health
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Lion kills 14-year-old girl outside Kenya’s Nairobi National Park
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Death toll from a boat capsizing in Congo earlier this week rises to 148, officials say
Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, leader of the RSF, (pictured) and Abdel Fattah al-Burhan who heads the SAF have shunned global efforts to end their feud and have bitterly competed for control of the country.
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Sudan rebels declare rival government on anniversary of brutal 2-year war with army
Josh Sullivan, who describes himself as “a church planting missionary,” arrived in South Africa in 2018.
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Samples of garden ants concealed in syringes were shown at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Law Courts, in Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday.
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Belgian teens arrested with 5,000 smuggled ants as Kenya warns of changing trafficking trends
People who fled the Zamzam camp for the internally displaced after it fell under RSF control, rest in a makeshift encampment in an open field near the town of Tawila in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region on April 13, 2025.
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Sudan’s RSF claims control of major Darfur camp, civilians flee
Muawia Osman Mohamed Khair (L), Sudan's acting Minister of Justice, and Sudanese ambassador to the Netherlands Omaima Alsharief wait for the start of a hearing before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, on Thursday.
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Sudan accuses UAE of ‘support and complicity’ in genocide at World Court
The Americans, pictured from left, Tyler Thompson, Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun and Marcel Malanga, were repatriated on Tuesday.
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DR Congo repatriates three Americans who faced death penalty over failed coup attempt
Screengrab taken from a video showing a hippo near the bank of the Ishasha River in eastern Congo's Virunga National Park.
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Anthrax kills 50 hippos in DRC’s Virunga National Park
Immigration officers are sitting in front of computers at the new terminal building of Juba International Airport in Juba, South Sudan, on October 29, 2018.
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South Sudan to admit man deported by US after blanket visa ban
Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, left, Marcel Malanga and Tyler Thompson, all American citizens, attend court in Kinshasa in September 2024, on charges of taking part in a coup attempt in May that year.
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DRC president commutes death sentences for 3 Americans convicted in coup attempt