CAIRO (AP) – Sudan is entering a fourth year of war between the military and paramilitary forces.

YAOUNDE, Cameroon. (AP) – Pope Leo XIV arrived Wednesday in the central African nation of Cameroon with a message of peace for its separatist region and for talks with President Paul Biya, the 93-year-old leader whose grip on power was extended for an eighth term in a widely disputed election last year.

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) – Vaccination programs across Africa have saved tens of millions of lives over the past two decades, but progress is slowing in some countries, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, amid warnings that cuts to United States aid risk leaving millions of children unprotected.

BAMENDA, Cameroon (AP) – Caro Bih says she was once kidnapped, chained and held for ransom by the separatist fighters who have clashed for years with government soldiers in parts of Cameroon. Several relatives have been killed, jailed or abducted. Her family home was razed.

ANNABA, Algeria (AP) – Pope Leo XIV walked Tuesday in the footsteps of his spiritual father, St. Augustine, making a pilgrimage to the archaeological ruins in Algeria where the fifth-century titan of early Christianity lived, died and wrote some of the most important works in Western thought.

COTONOU, Benin (AP) – Benin Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni won the country’s presidential election held Sunday with over 94% of votes, according to election officials, fulfilling the expectation he was the anointed successor after President Patrice Talon’s decade in power.

VATICAN CITY (AP) – Inappropriate. Ridiculous. Absurd. Visitors to the Vatican on Tuesday had some choice words for U.S. President Donald Trump after his harsh criticism of Pope Leo XIV for his calls to soften the rhetoric of war.

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) – English-speaking separatists in Cameroon say they will pause fighting for three days to allow “safe travel” for Pope Leo XIV ‘s visit on Wednesday to the central African country.