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Kenyan Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi attends the United Nations climate change conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan November 12, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Aziz Karimov/File Photo

Africa

Kenya backs Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara: joint statement

The long-frozen conflict, dating back to 1975, pits Morocco, which considers the territory as its own, against the Algeria-backed Polisario front, which seeks an independent state in the desert...

The headquarters of the African Development Bank (AfDB) are pictured in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, January 30, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Luc Gnago

Africa

African Development Bank to pick new head to confront US funding cuts

A labourer carries a sack of ore at the Rubaya coltan mine, in the town of Rubaya, which is controlled by M23 rebels, in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo March 24, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo

Africa

Congo eyes US minerals deal by end of June: FT

US President Donald Trump meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, May 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Africa

South Africa town leader 'sad' about Trump's misuse of white crosses video

Demonstrators demand the overthrow of the Libya's Government of National Unity headed by Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah, in Martyrs' Square in Tripoli, Libya. May 16, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ayman al-Sahili/File Photo

Africa

Libya's PM says eliminating militias is 'ongoing project' as ceasefire holds

The Meharists are part of Mauritania's National Guard. Photo: AFP

Africa

On patrol for jihadists with Mauritania's camel cavalry

Demonstrators hold placards in support of US President Donald Trump's stance against what he calls racist laws, land expropriation, and farm attacks, outside the American Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, on February 15, 2025. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

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First white South Africans to arrive under US refugee plan as soon as next week

49-year-old Christopher Obinya who retrieved his grandfather's cocoa farm from a cropper who had been leasing it, inspects it during a visit to the farm in Ikom community, in Cross River State, Nigeria, April 24, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Sodiq Adelakun

Africa

'Cocoa boys' flock to Nigerian farmlands, drawn by high prices

US President Donald Trump's Senior Advisor for Africa Massad Boulos addresses a press conference at the US Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda April 8, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Jean Bizimana/File Photo

Africa

Congo and Rwanda submit draft peace proposal: Trump adviser

A view shows a large plume of smoke rising from fuel depot in Port Sudan, Sudan, May 6, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Khalid Abdelaziz

Africa

Drone strikes pound Port Sudan, putting aid deliveries at risk

Kenya's President-elect William Ruto speaks after the Supreme Court upheld his win in Nairobi, Kenya September 5, 2022. File Photo: REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi

Africa

Shoe thrown at Kenya's President Ruto during rally

A mother carries her sleeping baby during a safety training workshop for displaced Boko Haram victims on the identification of dangerous objects, at the Gubio camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria May 6, 2022. Picture taken May 6, 2022. Photo: REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde/File Photo

Africa

Gates, others launch $500 million maternal, newborn health fund, bucking aid cuts trend

Attendees of a rosary for Pope Francis leave, following the death of the pontiff, with St. Peter's Basilica in the background, in the Vatican, April 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

Africa

Africans root for first Black pope in modern history