Africa

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)

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)

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

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)

Pope Leo XIV speaks to journalists aboard his flight bound for Algiers’ Houari Boumédiène International Airport on Monday, April 13, 2026, at the start of an 11-day apostolic journey to Africa. (Alberto Pizzoli/Pool Photo via AP)

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)

A portrait of former Zambian President Edgar Lungu, who died more than eight months ago in South Africa, is displayed on a wall in Lusaka, Zambia, Thursday, Feb.12, 2026. (AP Photo/Rodney Muhumuza)

Pupils take part in an English lesson at Rare Gem Talent School, which supports students with dyslexia, in Kitengela, Kajiado County, Kenya, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)

A mother holds the clenched hand of her daughter, who has not unclenched it in the eight months since fleeing mercenaries in Mali and finding refuge in Douankara, Mauritania, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)

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)

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)

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)