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The human cost of the war in Sudan, three years on

Africa Cup of Nations. Africa](/news/videos/c75x19zw9e0o) [ ## Museveni in commanding

Who is Roelf Meyer, South Africa’s new ambassador to the US?

Africa’s new ambassador to the US? South Africa has appointed Roelf Meyer, a former

South Africa appoints former apartheid-era negotiator as US ambassador

Africa appoints former apartheid-era negotiator as US ambassador South Africa has appointed Roelf Meyer

South Africa names apartheid-era negotiator as ambassador to US

Africa names apartheid-era negotiator as ambassador to US South Africa has appointed a former

Justice denied: why families of apartheid victims are still searching for answers

Africa. So too did the appearances of some apartheid security police, who admitted to violations

Pope heads to Cameroon as separatists announce 3-day pause in fighting

Africa.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/1648x1748+0+0/resize/1100/quality/50/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F67%2F53%2Fc5e7346b46e48e8f8438698f6f2a%2Fap26099504393753.jpg) A map showing the pope's planned travel through Africa. **Will

Popes have spoken out on politics before. But with Trump and Pope Leo it's different

Africa, in Algiers on Monday. Religious experts say President Trump's attacks on the pope

Fela Kuti is the first African artist to enter the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Africa — its rhythms carried truth, resistance and freedom, inspiring generations of African musicians to speak

Thousands celebrate open-air Mass with Pope Leo in Cameroon - in pictures

Africa tour. Arriving in the economic city of Douala on Friday, the Pope reiterated his message

Pope criticises 'tyrants' who spend billions on wars, days after Trump spat

Africa. More than a fifth of the world's Catholics are in Africa, some 288 million

Men caught competing as women in prestigious South African marathon

Africa’s flagship marathon races after they finished in the top 10 of the women

'Humiliated, broken, powerless': Sudan enters fourth year of war

Africa’s largest per-capita host of refugees—struggles to support more than 1.4 million

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti at risk in Israeli jails as he faces ‘escalating abuse’

Africa’s first democratically elected president after the end of apartheid, in 2002 [told his lawyer

Survivors ask why busy market bombed in Nigerian anti-terror campaign

Africa Province (Iswap) jihadist group. A local councillor said more than 200 people had died

Pope Leo takes aim at 'handful of tyrants' spending billions on war.

Africa.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/8640x5760+0+0/resize/1100/quality/50/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F23%2F79%2F76ed9fbd4f8b8e357f3df8585eb9%2Fap26106428959801.jpg) Pope Leo XIV leaves at the end of a meeting for peace

Pope Leo calls on Cameroonians to reject violence as 120,000 join Mass

Africa tour to preach a message of justice and nonviolence. Addressing about 120,000 faithful

Chinese national given one year in prison for smuggling ants out of Kenya

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US talks between Lebanon and Israel end – as it happened

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Three years of messages at once - a chronicle of Sudan's war pours in as trapped reporter's phone turns on

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Middle East crisis live: US claims blockade has ‘completely halted economic trade’ into Iran, as Trump hints at return to talks in Pakistan

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