Africa

Britain's Prince Harry, left, accompanied by Prince Seeiso of Lesetho, meets pupils in a class during his visit to the Kananelo Centre for the Deaf outside Maseru, Lesotho, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

Chair of African charity Prince Harry co-founded says he orchestrated a bullying campaign

The chairperson of an African charity co-founded by Prince Harry has accused him of orchestrating a bullying and harassment campaign to try to force her out.

The Microsoft team sets up the first live trial of 3D telemedicine technology in a van at Koforidua Hospital, Ghana, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

New 3D technology could soon bring surgeons closer to patients in Africa’s most remote regions

Moussa "Dadis" Camara speaks upon his arrival from exile in Conakry, Guinea, Dec. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Diallo Abdoul Aziz, File)

Guinea’s former dictator pardoned over the 2009 stadium massacre

Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation Isaac Sello Seitlholo tosses out samples of Salvinia minima ferns infected with black weevils onto a carpet of the ferns growing at the Hartbeespoort Dam in South Africa, on March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Scientists hope hungry weevils from Louisiana can tackle South Africa’s invasive water plants

Women walk across a deserted street in downtown Harare, Zimbabwe, Monday, March 31, 2025, following calls for an anti-government protest. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)

Calls for uprising in Zimbabwe largely ignored as public heeds government appeals to stay away

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The main street of Karan, Mali, is lit by solar-powered street lamps, on Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed)

Mali embraces solar power for rural areas but the challenges are still vast

A woman who says she was dragged to a military encampment and gang raped by Eritrean soldiers and militiamen over a period of two days, pose for a photo in Shire in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Fred Harter)

HIV soars after a deadly war in Ethiopia’s Tigray. Trump’s aid cuts aren’t helping

Mariama Soriba undergoes a procedure for a contraceptive implant at the Marie Stopes Sierra Leone Reproductive Choices clinic in Njagbahun, Sierra Leone, Saturday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)

Sierra Leone debates decriminalizing abortion as women and girls endanger their lives

Josephine Nyevhe, a volunteer village health worker, conducts weekly visits on her electric tricycle in Hwedza Zimbabwe, Thursday, March 6 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)

Electric tricycles are a ticket to respect and prosperity for some rural women in Zimbabwe

Amadou Ndiaye holds a Braille tablet in Bamako, Mali, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Moustapha Diallo)

200 years after the creation of braille, blind people in Mali say it has allowed them to fit in

FILE - Houses and buildings are partially submerged following a dam collapse in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Sept 10, 2024. (AP Photos/ Musa Ajit Borno, File)

A Nigerian city devastated by flooding has quickly recovered. Locals credit community spirit

China says 3 Chinese crew members suspected of being kidnapped from a boat off Ghana are safe

Kenyan UN peacekeeper killed in an ambush in the Central African Republic, spokesperson says

Muslims gather to break their fast with fruits and juice during the holy month of Ramadan in Nima, Accra, Ghana, Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

From the Atlantic coast to the Sahelian plain, Ramadan brings West Africans to the table

Water runs out of a drain under an agricultural field, Tuesday, April 9, 2024, in Sabina, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

Plastics are seeping into farm fields, food and eventually human bodies. Can they be stopped?

Clash between Nigerian security forces and members of pro-Palestinian group kill 6

A mob in southern Nigeria kills 16 people they suspected of being kidnappers

In this image provided by the U.S. Army, Lithuanian Army and emergency services personnel build a makeshift dam from HESCO barrier bags during recovery efforts for four U.S. soldiers in a U.S. Army M88 Hercules submerged under several meters of water in a swamp near a training area near Pabadre, Lithuania, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (Christopher Saunders/U.S. Army via AP)

US and Lithuanian forces struggle to drain swamp to recover 4 soldiers in submerged armored vehicle

Islamic militants kill 12 Cameroonian soldiers in an attack near Lake Chad

Somali militants kill 6 Kenyan police reservists and ransack their border camp

Sudanese activists say at least 45 dead in attack on Darfur city by paramilitary group

Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock speaks during a press conference in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, file)

Germany closes its embassy in South Sudan as it teeters on the brink of civil war

Sudan army soldiers celebrate after they took over the Republican Palace in Khartoum, Sudan, Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo)

Sudan’s army says it seized key buildings in Khartoum after retaking the Republican Palace

At least 44 civilians killed in jihadi attack in Niger, authorities say

Former heavyweight champion George Foreman of Houston, reacts during a news conference in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 1994.(AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)

George Foreman, the fearsome heavyweight who became a beloved champion, dies at 76

Namibian president elect Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, of the ruling SWAPO Party, at a news conference in Windhoek, Namibia, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024 after the election results were made official. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich, File)

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is sworn in as Namibia’s first female leader

People attend a demonstration ahead of a ceremony renaming the street Petersallee into Maji-Maji-Allee,at the so called African Quarter, in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Scarred by German colonialism, victims push the country into a new reckoning with its dark past

A person wearing a shirt covered in books holds a copy of the novel "Fahrenheit 451" while protesting in support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Thursday, March 20, 2025, outside the IMLS in Washington, after hearing that DOGE had shown up to the office. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

What’s happening with the Institute of Museum and Library Services after Trump’s executive order

White South Africans demonstrate in support of U.S. President Donald Trump in front of the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

67,000 white South Africans express interest in Trump’s plan to give them refugee status

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks during an exchange of notes after his meeting with Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Oct. 26, 2024. (Hasnoor Hussain/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Ethiopia introduces new tax to fill gap after USAID funding pause

Former members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and police officers who allegedly surrendered to M23 rebels arrive in Goma, Congo, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, file)

Rwanda-backed rebels push into a mineral-rich town in Congo despite ceasefire calls

Rescue workers remove the trailer that crashed into halted vehicles and burst into flames in Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday , March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga)

Trailer in Nigeria crashes into vehicles and bursts into flame, killing at least 6 people

Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu speaks at the opening ceremony of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (Greg Baker/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Nigerian leader suspends the governor of an oil-rich state in rare emergency rule

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends the High-Level Segment of the 58th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Sexual misconduct allegations in UN missions topped 100 in 2024, UN says

A roadside bomb in Mogadishu targeted the president’s convoy, Somalian government says

Mali announces withdrawal from alliance of French-speaking countries

French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau leaves the weekly cabinet meeting, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

France and Algeria feud over expulsion policy as tensions flare between the two countries

Former members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and police officers who allegedly surrendered to M23 rebels arrive in Goma, Congo, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, file)

Presidents of Congo and Rwanda meet in Qatar to discuss the insurgency in eastern Congo

Millions of people and hundreds of staff impacted by US aid cuts, UN migration agency says

Separatists in Mali say an army airstrike on a market killed 18. The army says it targeted fighters

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands reviews the honor guard after arriving to meet with Kenya's President William Ruto at State House in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Kenya hosts Dutch royals as allegations of rights abuses mount in the East African nation

Suspected Somali pirates seize Yemeni fishing boat in third such attack in recent weeks

South Sudan orders civilians to vacate a northern area as it battles an armed group

Sudanese police accuse RSF paramilitaries after 11 bodies found at bottom of a well in Khartoum

A 28-year-old mother of four who was gang-raped by armed men while collecting firewood, enters a makeshift house in Juba displacement camp, South Sudan, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Can technology help more survivors of sexual assault in South Sudan?

Burkina Faso junta leader Ibrahim Traore participates in a ceremony in Ouagadougou, Oct. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Kilaye Bationo, File)

Video of Burkina Faso massacre appears to implicate government-allied militia, watchdog says