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Pope Leo XIV challenges Angola's leaders
LUANDA, Angola (AP) – Pope Leo XIV challenged Angola’s leaders to break the “cycle of interests” that have plundered and exploited Africa for centuries, as he arrived in the southern African country on Saturday with a message of encouragement for its long-suffering people.
Iran war energy shock drives nuclear power plans in hard-hit Asia and Africa

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – The Iran war’s global energy shock is causing some nations in Asia and Africa to boost nuclear power generation and spurring atomic energy plans in non-nuclear countries on both continents.

Pope blasts 'tyrants' ravaging the planet during his visit to Cameroon

BAMENDA, Cameroon (AP) – Pope Leo XIV blasted the “handful of tyrants” who are ravaging Earth with war and exploitation, as he preached a message of peace Thursday in the epicenter of a separatist conflict in central Africa considered one of the world’s most neglected crises.

What to know about Cameroon's separatist violence

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) – Pope Leo XIV arrived in Cameroon’s northwestern city of Bamenda on Thursday to lead a peace meeting in a region battered by separatist violence that has claimed thousands of lives since it started nearly a decade ago.

Ghana rescues 305 West African nationals in anti-trafficking operation

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) – More than 300 West African nationals, including 113 children, have been rescued after an intelligence-led bust by the Ghana Immigration Service on street begging networks in the capital of Accra, the agency said on Thursday.

Gabon's former prime minister, a critic of the junta, has been arrested

LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) – Gabon ‘s former prime minister and leading opposition figure Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze has been arrested by the country’s security forces, his party announced in a statement on Thursday.

BP sued in Kenya over alleged toxic waste from 1980s oil exploration

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – The High Court in Kenya ruled Thursday that a class action lawsuit can move forward against multinational oil and gas company BP alleging that decades-long toxic waste disposal contaminated drinking water in northern Kenya.

A remarkable exchange between pope and president

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) – There is an odd sense of isolation when you are covering Pope Leo XIV from inside the Vatican’s traveling press pool: Escorted from venue to venue with police motorcades that clear even the most congested of traffic jams, it’s a membership that has many privileges.

South African politician jailed for 5 years for firing rifle shots at rally

JOHANNESBURG (AP) – South African opposition party leader Julius Malema was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday after he was convicted of breaking firearm laws by firing a rifle at a political rally in 2018.

Sudan enters fourth year of war as officials lament 'abandoned crisis'

PORT SUDAN, Sudan (AP) – Famine. Massacres. And now badly needed food and other supplies are under strain. Sudan on Wednesday entered a fourth year of war that’s been called an “abandoned crisis,” as a new Middle East conflict throws into shadow the fighting that has forced 13 million people to flee their homes.

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