Africa

Congo Ebola Wedding
A newly married couple walks down the aisle at their wedding amid an Ebola outbreak in Ituri Province in Bunia, Congo, Saturday, June 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Africa

How the Ebola outbreak is changing weddings in Congo

JUNE 8, 2026

Migration Equatorial Guinea US Deportees
A street scene in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Saturday, April 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Africa

AP delivers exclusive and rare account from inside an African hotel where asylum seekers deported by the U.S. are imprisoned

JUNE 5, 2026

APTOPIX Congo Ebola
A woman cries as Red Cross workers carry the coffin of a person who died of Ebola from a health center in Rwampara, Congo, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Africa

AP’s Goma team delivers haunting all-formats coverage of Ebola outbreak in one of the world’s most remote and vulnerable places

MAY 29, 2026

Congo Ebola
Red Cross workers carry the body of a person who died of Ebola into a coffin at a health center in Rwampara, Congo, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Africa

Photos from Congo and Uganda during Ebola outbreak

MAY 25, 2026

Kenya Professional Mourners
A family member grieves at the burial of a relative on the outskirts of Kisumu, Kenya, Friday, March 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Asa Wallin)

Africa

Kenya’s professional mourners help grieving families and keep tradition alive

MAY 19, 2026

South Africa Unhappy Elephants
FILE - Charley, an ageing four-ton African elephant, is trained to enter a transport container, on Aug. 9, 2024 at the Pretoria, South Africa's, National Zoological Gardens. (AP Photo, File)

Africa

Animal welfare groups say 3 South African zoo elephants are depressed and sue to move them

MAY 19, 2026

Senegal Wrestling Photo Gallery
Wrestlers compete at the national wrestling arena in Dakar, Senegal, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Africa

In Senegal’s wrestling arenas, rituals share the spotlight with the fight, in photos

MAY 16, 2026

Senegal Dance Biennale
People attend a dance workshop at the Biennale of Dance in Africa, held at Ecole des Sables in Toubab Dialaw, Senegal, Saturday, May 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Africa

A sun-baked Senegal village erupts in color for one of Africa’s biggest dance festivals

MAY 4, 2026

APTOPIX Cameroon Africa Pope
Pope Leo XIV arrives in procession to celebrate Mass at the Japoma Stadium, in Douala, Cameroon, Friday, April 17, 2026, on the fifth day of his 11-day pastoral visit to Africa. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Africa

Photos of Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Africa

APRIL 20, 2026

Ethiopian Orthodox Easter
Deacon Tassew Yinadu, center plays the drum, or kebero, during Easter service at Re'ese Adbarat Debre Selam Kidist Mariam Church, an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo church, in Washington, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Washington

Ethiopian Orthodox Christians in Washington mark Easter with prayer, joyful family celebrations

APRIL 13, 2026

Britain World’s Oldest-Tortoise
FILE - Tourists take photos of Jonathan, a then 192-year-old tortoise, on the lawn of Plantation House in Jamestown on the South Atlantic island of St. Helena, Feb. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Nicole Evatt, File)

Africa

World’s oldest known tortoise still very much alive despite rumor to the contrary

APRIL 2, 2026

Pictures-of-the-Week-Global-Photo-Gallery
Initiates return after completing their passage to manhood at a traditional initiation school, in Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Alfonso Nqunjana)

Africa

Local expertise breaks through culture of silence around deadly initiation rites in South Africa

MARCH 27, 2026

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