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Tanzania Solar Mamas
A "Solar Mama" technician wires up a solar charge controller at the campus of Barefoot College International in Kinyasini, Unguja, Zanzibar, July 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jack Denton)

Africa

Zanzibar’s ‘solar mamas’ are trained as technicians to help light up communities

NOV. 13, 2025

Mali Arts Festival
Dancers perform as giant marionettes parade through the streets during an art festival in Bamako, Mali, on Nov. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Moustapha Diallo)

Africa

Marionette festival in Mali defies threats from jihadi militants to celebrate culture

NOV. 11, 2025

APTOPIX Egypt Antiquities
People hold mobile devices in front of the golden burial mask of King Tutankhamun during the first day for visitors after the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, Egypt, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Africa

The $1 billion Grand Egyptian Museum opens to the public

NOV. 4, 2025

Egypt Antiquities
Tourists visit the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, Egypt, Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Africa

The Grand Egyptian Museum showcasing 50,000 artifacts is finally opening

OCT. 30, 2025

Ivory Coast Election
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara casts his vote at a polling station during the presidential elections in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Africa

Photos from Ivory Coast’s presidential election as 83-year-old incumbent seeks fourth term

OCT. 25, 2025

Madagascar Protests
Soldiers are greeted by people gathering for a ceremony in tribute to demonstrators killed during recent anti-government protest in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Mamyrael)

Africa

Madagascar coup leader breaks news through AP that he is “taking the position of president”

OCT. 24, 2025

Lesotho USAID Cuts
Hlaoli Monyamane, 32, who is HIV positive, poses for a portrait inside his home in Thaba-Tsoeu Ha Mafa, Lesotho, July 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Africa

Rich storytelling and compelling imagery show the impacts of US aid funding cuts in Lesotho

OCT. 24, 2025

Lesotho USAID Cuts Photo Gallery
Mateboho Talitha Fusi, who is HIV-positive, poses for a portrait in Ha Koloboi, Lesotho, Saturday, July 12, 2025. Fusi is part of a peer-support group in her village, a concept that came about with U.S.-funded programs to help communities and residents live with HIV and support each other during lifelong treatments. Fusi still has access to her medication, but since the aid cuts, she'd been receiving fewer pills in each refill, causing worry for the future. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Africa

Fear and worry in Lesotho: Photos show those affected as US aid cuts hit care for HIV patients

OCT. 16, 2025

Kenya Urban Lions
A lioness plays with her cub in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Narok, Kenya, on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Laila Kazziha)

Africa

He lives alongside lions in Nairobi. The human-wildlife collision is dazzling — and dangerous

OCT. 8, 2025

Uganda Mountain Gorillas
A mountain gorilla eats leaves in the forest of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwestern Uganda, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Onen Patrick)

Africa

Tourism is helping Uganda’s endangered mountain gorillas make a comeback

SEPT. 24, 2025

Ghana Women Oyster Farming
Women offload oysters from a canoe at Tsokomey, Ghana, Aug. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Africa

In coastal Ghana, female oyster farmers try to save an old practice threatened by climate change

SEPT. 18, 2025

APTOPIX Aging Africa Photo Essay
Deziranta Namisango, second from left, who has dementia, sits on a motorcycle taxi as Christine Nababi, 80, is helped onto the seat by NGO field officer, Elizabeth Nagawa, as they leave their biweekly fellowship gathering for seniors at a church in Mukono, Uganda, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Africa

In Uganda, AP explores the experience of aging on a continent where it’s unusual to be old

SEPT. 12, 2025

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