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In this photograph taken Saturday July 13, 2019, an health worker wearing protective suits enters an isolation pod to treat a patient at a treatment center in Beni, Congo DRC. The head of the World Health Organization is convening a meeting of experts Wednesday July 17, 2019 to decide whether the Ebola outbreak should be declared an international emergency after spreading to eastern Congo’s biggest city, Goma, this week. More than 1,600 people in eastern Congo have died as the virus has spread in areas too dangerous for health teams to access.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay) XJD105 XJD105

July 17, 2019 at 11:33 am

Q&A: Why Ebola is now an international emergency

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The World Health Organization says the deadly Ebola virus outbreak in northeastern Congo is now an international health emergency . More than... Updated 12:26 pm

FILE – In this Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017 file photo, musician Johnny Clegg performs on stage during his own farewell concert in Johannesburg. Clegg died at his home in Johannesburg Tuesday, July 16, 2019 after suffering from pancreatic cancer. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File) JOH102 JOH102

July 16, 2019 at 11:03 am

Johnny Clegg, anti-apartheid musician in South Africa, dies

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Johnny Clegg, a South African musician who performed in defiance of racial barriers imposed under the country's apartheid system decades ago and...

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June 15, 2019 at 2:22 am

Zero elephants poached in a year in top Africa wildlife park

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — One of Africa's largest wildlife preserves is marking a year without a single elephant found killed by poachers, which experts call an...

June 11, 2019 at 2:43 am

Botswana decriminalizes gay sex in landmark Africa case

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Botswana became the latest country to decriminalize gay sex on Tuesday, a landmark case for Africa, as the High Court rejected laws...

June 7, 2019 at 1:04 am

Ethiopian PM visits Sudan in bid to mediate crisis VIEW

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Ethiopia's prime minister urged "courage" as he met separately with Sudan's ruling generals and protest leaders on Friday in a bid...

FILE – In this Friday, March 22, 2019, file photo people pass through a section of the road damaged by Cyclone Idai in Nhamatanda about 50 kilometres from Beira, in Mozambique. Mozambique says it needs $3.2.billion to recover from two powerful tropical cyclones that ripped into the southern African nation this year and left hundreds dead. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File) XDF101 XDF101

May 30, 2019 at 1:40 am

Mozambique seeks $3.2 billion to recover from cyclones VIEW

The cyclones killed more than 650 people in Mozambique, and hundreds more in Zimbabwe and Malawi. Some aid workers fear the worst is yet to...

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...

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...