Africa

CORRECTION Africa Politics Fear of Witchcraft

CORRECTS CITY - Seer Atukung Tafala walks around his igloo-like shrine in Mbale, Uganda, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

Africa

In African politics, the rampant belief in witchcraft fortifies some and vexes others

JULY 16, 2025

Burkina Faso Eye Doctor

Dr. Claudette Yaméogo, Burkina Faso's only ophthalmologist specializing in treating children, checks Isaka Diallo who has lost vision in his left eye at the Sanou Sourou University Hospital in the city of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, Thursday, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Elia Borras)

Africa

Burkina Faso’s only eye doctor for children sees the trauma of both play and conflict

JULY 10, 2025

Liberia US Aid Cuts

Roseline Phay, 32, stands with her daughter Pauline outside their home in Bong County, Liberia, Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Annie Risemberg)

Africa

As US abruptly ends support, Liberia faces empty health clinics and unplanned pregnancies

JULY 8, 2025

CORRECTION APTOPIX Kenya Blogger Dead

CORRECTS ACTION TO ATTACKED - A suspected pro government supporter is attacked by protesters during a demonstration over the death of blogger Albert Ojwang in police custody, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Africa

AP photographer shows the moments a Kenyan police officer shoots a bystander at a police-brutality protest

JUNE 27, 2025

Wagner Videos War Crimes

In this image from video posted on a Wagner Group-affiliated Telegram channel in July 2024, men in Burkina Faso military uniforms stand around a dead body lying on the ground as it was cut into pieces. (AP Photo)

Africa

A confidential legal brief to the ICC accuses Wagner of promoting atrocities on social media

JUNE 27, 2025

South Africa Farm Killings

Anita de Lange, left, and her son, Hansie de Lange, tidy up at the Witkruis Monument, near Polokwane, South Africa, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Mogomotsi Magome)

Africa

A hillside of white crosses fuels a misleading story about South Africa’s farm killings

JUNE 16, 2025

Africa Russia’s Growing Footprint

This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows a Russian-made Su-24 fighter-bomber on April 14, 2025, at an airbase in the Malian capital, Bamako. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

Africa

Russia skirts Western sanctions to ramp up its military footprint in Africa

JUNE 11, 2025

Nigeria Flood Children

FILE - People search for flood victims after heavy rainfall in the market town of Mokwa, north-central Nigeria , Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Usman Salihu Mokwa, File)

Africa

Teacher in Nigeria loses dozens of relatives and pupils in devastating floods

JUNE 5, 2025

Nigeria Drying Rivers

Nasiru Bello plants onions on his farm Kwalkwalawa, northwestern Nigeria, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Africa

Nigeria has a food security problem as water for crops is harder to find

MAY 13, 2025

Ethiopia Amhara Rebels

Livestock traders display their wares at a busy market town of Sangi, in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2025. (AP Photo)

Africa

From thousands of miles away, one reporter produces an exclusive, all-formats report on conflict in Ethiopia’s Amhara region

APRIL 18, 2025

Herders and farmers from left, Adama Sow, Oumar Ba and Daka Sow walk outside Niéti Yone, northern Senegal, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Thompson)

Herders and farmers from left, Adama Sow, Oumar Ba and Daka Sow walk outside Niéti Yone, northern Senegal, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Thompson)

Africa

‘I bought their dream’: How a US company’s huge land deal in Senegal went bust

APRIL 2, 2025

Ivory Coast USAID

Members of a micro-credit cooperative meet in a compound at Kimbirila-Nord, the last village to the Mali border in Ivory Coast, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Africa

AP shows how loss of U.S. aid impacts Ivory Coast as al-Qaida and other extremist groups approach

MARCH 28, 2025

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