Africa

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)

President Donald Trump speaks during a lunch with African leaders including Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Liberian President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Bissau-Guinean President Umaro Sissoco EmbalÛ, Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani and Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, July 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

FILE - This undated photograph handed out by the French military shows three Russian mercenaries, right, in northern Mali. (French Army via AP)

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)

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)

Displaced Palestinians, carrying their belongings, move away from the areas where the Israeli army is operating after Israel's renewed offensive in the Gaza Strip, on the outskirts of Beit Lahia, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A worker turns excelsa coffee beans to dry near Nzara, South Sudan on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

A farmer harvests avocados at a plantation in Kayanza province, Burundi, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Vegetables are displayed at a market in Bangui, Central African Republic, on March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)