JOHANNESBURG (AP) – South Africa’s top police official was suspended by the president on Thursday after he was charged with breaking finance laws related to an allegedly corrupt police contract.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) – A long-running dispute over the remains of Zambia’s former President Edgar Lungu took another turn late on Wednesday, when the Zambian government took custody of his body only for a court to order that it be returned to his family.

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) – Pope Leo XIV urged the United States and Iran to return to talks to end the war Thursday and condemned capital punishment, in a wide-ranging press conference en route home from his trip to Africa.

QOZ NAFISA, Sudan (AP) – It’s always been challenging for Abbas Awad to find medicines in his village outside Sudan ‘s capital. But since the war in Iran, it’s become harder. Prices have spiked and many pharmacies in the area are out of stock.

FIFA’s resale site has four tickets on sale for the World Cup final for just under $2.3 million each.

MAIDUGURI, Borno (AP) – Islamic militants attacked a remote village in northeastern Nigeria overnight, killing 11 people and leaving two critically injured, local officials said Wednesday. It was the latest violence in Africa’s most populous country that has long been battling a complex security crisis.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) – Gutïn Bae Tongala, a 59-year-old cook from the tiny island of Annobon in Equatorial Guinea, is not happy about Pope Leo XIV’s visit to his homeland.

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Trump administration is in discussions to potentially send more than 1,000 Afghans who assisted America’s war effort and relatives of U.S. service members stuck in Qatar to a third country, the U.S. government and some advocates said. Congo is an option, the advocates said.