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Cotonou, Benin's economic capital.

Benin: President Wadagni overhauls the military high command

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Rebel fighters outside the South Kivu provincial administration office in Bukavu.

DR Congo: FRN offensive puts armed forces under pressure in South Kivu

10 November 2026

Sogo bò figures on display at the Musée des Confluences, Lyon.

Lyon exhibition celebrates Mali's Sogo bò masquerade tradition

10 November 2026

Pupils at a primary school on the outskirts of Antananarivo.

Madagascar: school committees and remedial classes lift reading standards

10 November 2026

Nairobi, Kenya's capital.

Analysis: Kenya 2027, why Fred Matiang'i's star is fading

10 November 2026

Photographs of victims at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre.

Rwandan genocide suspect Jean Leonard Teganya deported from the United States

10 November 2026

Biram Dah Abeid addresses supporters in Nouakchott in 2024.

Mauritania: anti-slavery campaigner Biram Dah Abeid resigns from parliament

10 November 2026

A mona monkey at the Lekki Conservation Centre, Lagos.

Lagos: Lekki Conservation Centre threatened by urban expansion

10 November 2026

Government soldiers and police who surrendered are escorted in Goma, January 2025.

DR Congo military court sentences 66 soldiers to death for deserting the front

10 November 2026

Mobile money services, a key channel for remittances.

Africans abroad sent home $124 billion last year, and states want a bigger share

10 November 2026

A child prepares water at a camp in Moyale, Kenya, 3 November 2026.

Up to 50,000 Ethiopians flee to Kenya as clashes escalate around Moyale

10 November 2026

President Paul Biya casting his vote in Yaoundé in a previous election.

Cameroon to hold twice-delayed legislative and local elections on 7 February

10 November 2026

A pupil questions Hanan Ahmed during a menstrual health awareness session in Addis Ababa.

Ethiopia: reusable sanitary pads help girls stay in school

9 November 2026

Seized narcotics on display near Mombasa in an earlier operation.

Kenya seizes 454kg of methamphetamine worth $27 million on the coast

9 November 2026

Young surfers in Ngor, Dakar.

Senegalese surfer offers Dakar's children free lessons and a sense of freedom

9 November 2026

Moïse Katumbi, Congolese opposition leader.

Moïse Katumbi: "We will go to Goma to meet Joseph Kabila"

9 November 2026

Migrants aboard a wooden boat arrive at La Restinga, El Hierro, in the Canary Islands.

Senegal vows to pursue smugglers after boat sinking claims 39 lives

9 November 2026

Merchant vessels off Djibouti, near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

Regional conflicts raise fears of renewed piracy in the Gulf of Aden

9 November 2026