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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, left, wearing a face mask in South Africa, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. Uganda's long-time president says he is taking "forced leave" after testing positive for COVID-19. While two of three samples collected from him earlier in the week tested negative, one returned a positive result, he said in a statement Thursday. (AP Photo)

Uganda’s long-time president says he’s taking ‘forced leave’ after testing positive for COVID-19

5 dead, dozens believed missing after 3 shipwrecks of migrant boats off Tunisian coast

US suspends all food aid for millions in Ethiopia after investigation finds ‘widespread’ theft

Opposition coalition wins majority in Guinea-Bissau parliament

A man walks out a destroyed supermarket in Dakar, Senegal, Saturday, June 3, 2023. Senegal's government says at least nine people have been killed in violent clashes between police and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, with authorities issuing a blanket ban on the use of several social media platforms in the aftermath of the violence.

Senegal’s president calls for an investigation into deadly clashes, says he’s open to dialogue

UNICEF says 300 trapped children rescued from a Sudanese orphanage after 71 others died

The male lion named "Loonkiito", one of Kenya's oldest wild lions who was killed by herders in May 2023, is seen in Amboseli National Park, in southern Kenya on Feb. 20, 2023. Recent lion killings highlight the growing human-wildlife conflict in parts of east Africa that conservationists say has been exacerbated by a yearslong drought. (Philip J.

In Kenya, lions are speared to death as human-wildlife conflict worsens amid drought

Local representative says ethnic clashes at U.N. site in South Sudan kill at least 13 people

Reprieve for thousands of Zimbabweans in South Africa as their legal stay is extended

At least 18 people killed by extremist rebels in several villages in eastern Congo

More than 2 million people displaced, Burkina Faso’s government says, as aid falls short

8 dead in South Africa shooting at men’s hostel near Durban

Highly anticipated legislative election underway in Guinea-Bissau

US, Saudi Arabia urge Sudan’s warring parties to agree to a new cease-fire, fighting continues

Death toll from Senegal protests rises to 15 as opposition supporters clash with police

Ugandan transgender woman Pretty Peter who fled her home and country in 2019, and wished to be identified by her chosen name out of concern for her safety, poses for a photograph at the safe house where she now lives in Nairobi, the capital of neighboring Kenya Thursday, June 1, 2023. She says frightened members of the Ugandan LGBTQ+ community are searching for a way to get out of the country and some have stayed indoors since new anti-gay legislation was signed on Monday.

As anti-gay sentiment grows, more LGBTQ+ people seek to flee Uganda

At least 9 killed in eastern Congo’s latest extremist rebel attack