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The @AP's multi-format news from Africa. Header photo by Ben Curtis.
Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined October 2017
RT @AP: “Much of the capital has become empty.” Sudanese fleeing the fighting between rival generals in Khartoum and elsewhere are flooding…
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Tunisia's coast guard rounds up hundreds of cold, wet and heartbroken people every day during overnight sweeps for rickety Europe-bound migrant boats on the Mediterranean Sea.
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RT @AP_Europe: For some of the roughly 50,000 Sudanese people living in the United Kingdom, a sense of duty to help their homeland has repl…
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RT @AP: BREAKING: In first official word, Sudan's military says imprisoned former autocrat Omar al-Bashir is being held at a military-run h…
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RT @AP: Sudan’s warring generals have pledged to observe a new three-day truce that was brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia to t…
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RT @AP: Uganda's Lwera wetland has long been worked over by sand miners motivated by demand from the construction industry. Activists and o…
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RT @AP: Many Sudanese are desperately seeking ways to escape the chaos that has engulfed their country as two rival generals fight for cont…
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RT @AP: Cattle raiding by Islamic extremists is soaring at unprecedented levels in Mali, with militants linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic…
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RT @AP: BREAKING: A Sudan doctors’ group says the death toll in fierce fighting between the armed forces and a powerful paramilitary group…
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RT @AP: On May 28, 2021, a strange boat appeared on the horizon near the Caribbean island of Tobago. Inside were the bodies of more than a…
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RT @AP: U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appealed for “massive international support” for Somalia as he visited the East African…
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RT @AP: South African police say that a convicted murderer who faked his death to escape prison has been arrested in Tanzania following a t…
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A pilot in South Africa made a hasty emergency landing after discovering a highly venomous cobra hiding under his seat. Rudolf Erasmus had four passengers on board the light aircraft when he felt “something cold” slide across his lower back.
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RT @AP: In Senegal, the loss of white grouper is a threat to the national dish of thieboudienne, and to a way of life.
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A video in Burkina Faso shows its security forces walking amid the bloodied bodies of 7 boys. Bukinabe officials deny their troops are responsible but @AP geolocated the killings and found the relatives of one of the boys, piecing together his final hours.
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RT @AP: BREAKING: A lawyer representing the parents of the woman Oscar Pistorius shot dead 10 years ago says they will oppose the former Ol…
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This year’s holy month of Ramadan coincides with the longest drought on record in Somalia, forcing families to break their fasts with little food and water.
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RT @AP: The man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” is on his way to reunite with his family in the United States. Paul Rusesabagina was…
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