Africa

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The son of Mary Olouch, who died at 25 after a botched abortion procedure, holds a photo of her in her home in Karabok, Kenya, July 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Annie Risemberg)

A skier descends carving through the snow at Afriski Mountain Resort in Maluti, Lesotho, Saturday, July 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Kayleen Morgan)

Aliyu Saheed and his wife pose for a photograph with his children that were released after being kidnapped with others from a school by al-Qaida-linked fighters in Esinele, Southwestern, Nigeria, July 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Pelumi Salako)

A barber shave a patients hair during a grooming session at the largest mental health referral hospital, Mathari in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)

Omer al-Toum, 33, who lost his leg and arm by the explosion of unexploded ordnance, sits in his bedroom in Bahri, on the outskirts of Khartoum, Thursday, April 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A relative grieves while standing between caskets carrying the remains of girls who died in the Utumishi Academy school fire during a memorial service at Gilgil Stadium, Nakuru County, Kenya, Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

FILE - Refugees run for food in the Tine transit camp in Chad's Wadi Fara province on May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly, File)

Sudan's U-17 women's national team, in red, plays a soccer match against Comoros, during qualifiers for the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics, in Casablanca, Morocco, Monday, June 8, 2026. (AP Photo)

A woman who said she was abducted and sexually assaulted by the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, before paying a ransom, poses for a portrait after an interview with The Associated Press in Omdurman, on the outskirts of Khartoum, Saturday, April 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Referee Omar Artan, who was denied entry to the United States, is welcomed by supporters upon his arrival in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, June 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

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)