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No cases of Marburg have been reported outside Rwanda as part of this outbreak, and officials say the current risk to the US is low.

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CDC will start screening travelers from Rwanda to the US for Marburg virus

Tunisian President and candidate for re-election, Kais Saied, front, and his wife Ichraf Chebil Saied arrive to a polling station to cast their votes during the presidential elections, in the capital Tunis, Tunisia, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024.

Tunisia heads to the polls with a fading reputation as the Arab Spring’s only success story

General view of the town of Barsalogho, Burkina Faso, on May 29th 2024. A group of relatives of victims of the recent massacre in Barsalogho, in central Burkina Faso, accuses the army of forcing residents to leave the town, exposing them to an attack by a jihadist group affiliated with Al-Qaeda that left dozens dead. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

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Massacre in Burkina Faso left 600 dead, double previous estimates, according to French security assessment

An undated file photo shows Diego Garcia, the largest island in the
Chagos archipelago and site of a major United States military base in
the middle of the Indian Ocean leased from Britain in 1966. The United
States is preparing to deploy heavy B-2 bombers to Britian and the
Indian Ocean Island of Diego Garcia, if necessary in time to lead an
attack on Iraq, the officer in charge of the fleet said on October 30
2002. REUTERS/HO/U.S. Navy

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Britain agrees Chagos Island sovereignty deal with Mauritius

As part of the outbreak, 26 people have gotten sick, and eight have died.

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Rwanda is dealing with its first outbreak of deadly Marburg virus disease

Seventeen people were killed in mass shootings at two homes in a village in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province on Saturday, September 28.

Manhunt underway after 17 people killed in South Africa mass shooting

Plumes of smoke rise from Khartoum, Sudan on Thursday.

Sudan’s army launches push to retake ground in capital

An American woman who went missing while on a hike on Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa, has died and her body has been recovered, authorities said on Monday. The woman has been identified as a 20-year-old student from North Carolina named Brook Cheuvront.

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American hiker found dead on South Africa’s Table Mountain

People living near a chimpanzee research center in Guinea attacked the facility on Friday after a woman said one of the animals had killed her infant, the center’s managers said.

Residents ransack chimpanzee center in Guinea after animal kills infant

Features

Cars drive past by the newly planted trees and light installations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on July 27, 2024. Addis Ababa's urban renewal brings modern infrastructure and new challenges, with steep fines for traffic violations and new regulations. (Photo by Amanuel Sileshi / AFP) (Photo by AMANUEL SILESHI/AFP via Getty Images)

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EVs are starting to overtake gas-powered cars in a surprising place

African cities sitting on ‘keg of gunpowder’ as growing youth anger fuels unrest

The British Army trains in Kenya. Many women say soldiers raped them and abandoned children they fathered

Against the backdrop of rising anti-LGBTQ sentiment, these Nigerian fashion labels feel forced to show in private

Jacob Zuma has made a dramatic comeback in South Africa’s elections. Will he have the last laugh over Ramaphosa?

Nelson Mandela’s party has been dealt a seismic election blow. Where does it leave South Africa?

Nelson Mandela’s party has ruled South Africa for three decades – it now faces a critical moment of truth

South Africa has failed its Black majority. Nelson Mandela’s political heirs may pay the price

Forced to pay bribes at every step. How trans and intersex people say they survive in Kenya

South Africa’s democracy is turning 30 – but a silent crisis threatens its hard-fought gains

A life in fear: The dangers of finding love online as a queer woman in Nigeria

How the Chibok abductions continue to cast a long shadow over girls’ education in Nigeria

African Voices Changemakers

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Why Rema decided 2024 was the year to rep his city

‘Turning my life into something people can watch, pains me’: Wole Soyinka on having his memoir made into a movie

Video There’s more to African music than Afrobeats – just listen to these artists 23:00

Dusty & Stones want the world to lend an ear to African country music

Video How South Africa got its first UFC middleweight champ 23:04

As Olympic breaking debuts in Paris, a Moroccan duo is head over heels about the Games

Nollywood aims to become a global cultural phenomenon like Afrobeats

How rock icon Jimi Hendrix inspired one of Africa’s greatest guitarists

Video These African playmakers are making a splash in this year’s Paris 2024 Olympic Games 23:00

Inside Africa

F0W4C8 Mother and sons sitting on sand dune, Dune 7, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Africa

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The gigantic dunes rising up out of the world’s oldest desert

Hydrogen-powered skyscraper set for Egypt’s new capital

A South African vineyard is dropping predatory wasps from drones to keep its grapes free from bugs

Huge 2,492-carat diamond, believed to be world’s second-largest, unearthed in Botswana

Grand Stade Hassan II: Design revealed for one of the world’s largest stadiums ahead of 2030 World Cup

Revealed: The world’s most welcoming hotel for 2024

Connecting Africa

Wamkele Mene, Secretary General of African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), speaks during a panel discussion at the 2023 Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan on June 6, 2023. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP) (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images)

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Intra-Africa trade could double in next five years, says Secretary General of African Continental Free Trade Area

Why Africa is doubling down on its space ambitions

Video How African aviation could be set to soar 23:07

‘I don’t get scared of anything’: Aliko Dangote’s mission to build Africa’s largest oil refinery

Video A rare look inside Africa’s largest oil refinery 23:00

‘We’re constructing an ecosystem’: How a small, windy city could become a gateway for trade

African start-up

On-demand food delivery app Chowdeck.

Chowdeck is hungry for Nigeria’s food delivery market. One day, it wants to be a ‘super-app for Africa’

This Nigerian company wants to be the Airbnb of car rentals

From Nigeria to London: Nelly Agbogu is on a mission to elevate African small businesses

This start-up is making artificial hair from bananas

Africa Avant Garde

Tara Shakti will be the first Malagasy artist among the Lunar Codex artists to have her work sent to the moon. Shakti hopes to empower other women through her vibrant paintings.

This Madagascan artist is sending her paintings to the moon

A stunning metal sculpture shows ‘the beauty of Black women all over the world’

‘I’m amazed I lived to tell the tale’: Award-winning photographer on a life spent in the wild

‘Westernization is not the answer’: Artist Àsìkò explores Yoruba culture through mythology

Call to earth

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Angola nearly lost its national animal to poaching. Here’s how a team of dedicated conservationists brought it back

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Mana Pools National Park. African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana) walking in water. Zimbabwe. (Photo by: Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Zimbabwe to cull 200 elephants to feed citizens left hungry by drought

Residents leave the flooded areas with their belongings in Maiduguri, northern Borno state, Nigeria September 15, 2024. REUTERS/Ahmed Kingimi

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More than 200 inmates escape as Nigerian prison wall collapses in floods

At least 64 people were feared dead following a boat accident on a river in Zamfara State in northwest Nigeria, local officials said on Saturday.

At least 64 feared dead in Nigeria boat accident

People surround two passenger trains which collided in the Egyptian city of Zagazig on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024.

At least three killed as trains collide in Egypt

Michaela DePrince performs 'Giselle' with the English National ballet at the Coliseum in London, England on January 13, 2017.

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Sierra Leone ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince, who starred in Beyoncé video, dies aged 29

FILE - From left Tyler Thompson Jr, Marcel Malanga and Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, all American citizens, face the court in Kinshasa with 52 other defendants on June 7, 2024, accused of a role in last month's attempted coup in Congo led by little-known opposition figure Christian Malanga in which six people were killed. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi)

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Three Americans and 34 others sentenced to death over coup attempt in Congo

This aerial view shows houses submerged under water in Maiduguri on September 10, 2024.

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Floods gush through Nigerian zoo, sweeping snakes and crocodiles into neighborhoods

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Alleged killer of Ugandan Olympian dies from burns, hospital says

TOPSHOT - This image grab taken from AFPTV video footage on April 20, 2023, shows an aerial view of black smoke rising above the Khartoum International Airport amid ongoing battles between the forces of two rival generals. - Hundreds of people have been killed since the fighting erupted on April 15 between forces loyal to Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

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At least 21 killed in airstrike on Sudanese market as civil war rages

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Explosion kills at least 48 people as fuel tanker collides with truck in Nigeria

This handout image supplied by the European Space Agency (ESA), shows an aerial view of Sinai and the Syrian desert from the International Space Station, on May 12, 2016.

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The controversial plan to turn a desert green

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Fire contained at girls’ school in Kenya a day after blaze at boys’ dormitory that killed 21