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May 23, 2019 at 4:56 am

Botswana lifts ban on elephant hunting, to some anger

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Botswana has lifted its ban on elephant hunting in a country with the world's highest number of the animals, a decision that... Updated 3:04 pm

May 7, 2019 at 2:38 am

Post-apartheid South Africa is world’s most unequal country VIEW

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Perhaps nowhere in today's South Africa is the country's inequality on more dramatic display than in the neighboring Johannesburg suburbs of Sandton...

May 4, 2019 at 2:13 am

AP Explains: Why this Ebola outbreak is a special challenge

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — More than 1,000 deaths have now been confirmed in eastern Congo's Ebola outbreak, the second-worst in history behind the West African one...

This photo supplied by World Food Programme shows the Wimbi Beach in Pemba, Mozambique, after Cyclone Kenneth made landfall Friday, April 26, 2019. At least one person is reported dead and homes have been destroyed after the powerful cyclone struck northern Mozambique and continues to dump rain on the region, with the United Nations warning of “massive flooding.” Cyclone Kenneth arrived just six weeks after Cyclone Idai tore into central Mozambique, killing more than 600 people and displacing scores of thousands. (Nour Hemeci/World Food Programme via AP) MOZ901 MOZ901

April 26, 2019 at 1:16 am

Mozambique hit by new cyclone; 3 dead, flooding feared VIEW

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The second powerful cyclone to rip into Mozambique in just six weeks stunned residents Friday in a region where such storms had...

April 19, 2019 at 9:09 am

Attackers kill doctor at hospital in Congo’s Ebola epicenter VIEW

BENI, Congo (AP) — Attackers stormed a hospital at the epicenter of Congo's Ebola outbreak and killed "a dear colleague," the head of the World...

April 13, 2019 at 4:33 am

AP Explains: Why 2nd-worst Ebola outbreak is growing concern

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The World Health Organization has decided that the latest outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Congo is not yet a global...

In this April, 4, 2019 photo, Stephen Fonseca, a forensics expert who tries to find and name the dead, searches for bodies in a field in Magaru, Mozambique. As the forensic coordinator for Africa with the International Committee of the Red Cross, he was the only body recovery specialist searching the rural region struck by Cyclone Idai. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi) XTM201 XTM201

April 9, 2019 at 2:09 am

One man’s quest to find the dead after devastating cyclone WATCH

If a final death toll ever emerges — it is now more than 600 in Mozambique alone — it will be strongly informed by Red...

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April 8, 2019 at 1:57 am

After cyclone and cholera, Mozambique now battles hunger

BOPIRA, Mozambique (AP) — Mozambique's first disaster was a cyclone. The second has been cholera. Now hunger could be the third. The raging floodwaters that...

April 7, 2019 at 10:31 am

Mozambique recovers from cyclone, fights threat of cholera VIEW

BOPIRA, Mozambique (AP) — A battered notebook lists the people still alive in this village after a devastating cyclone. But sip by sip, a deadly...

April 6, 2019 at 2:05 am

Farmer turns his house into relief center in Mozambique VIEW

MATARARA, Mozambique (AP) — It began with a farmer who wanted to see how his neighbors had weathered a deadly cyclone. It has turned into...

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