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FILE - John Nkengasong, head of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, poses for a portrait on Aug. 29, 2023, in Washington. Nkengasong spoke to The Associated Press about his experience, at a period when challenges by anti-abortion groups and House Republican have made the future of PEPFAR uncertain. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

The pioneer of America’s embattled global HIV program recalls the hope after years of despair

By Ellen Knickmeyer - Associated Press

Catholic faithful pray at the Chapelle de l'Externat Saint Paul Church in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. Ivory Coast's seemingly miraculous progression to the Africa Cup of Nations semifinals has convinced locals that God is on their side. The host nation has survived several close shaves with elimination thanks to fortune with results in other games and scarcely believable comebacks. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Ivorians say God is on their team’s side after ‘miracles’ at Africa Cup

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People stand in front of Stade Olympique Alassane Ouattara B'Ebimpe before the African Cup of Nations Group A soccer match between Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea's in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Fans left frustrated amid ticket issues at Africa Cup

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Former Ivory Coast youth minister Charles Ble Goude gestures as he arrives for a hearing at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Goude and former President Laurent Gbagbo were acquitted in 2019 of responsibility for crimes including murder, rape and persecution following disputed elections in 2010, with judges saying prosecutors failed to prove their case. International Criminal Court judges are ruling Wednesday on the appeal by prosecutors against the acquittal of Ivory Coast's former president and an ex-youth minister on charges of involvement in deadly violence that erupted after 2010 elections. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

ICC judges uphold acquittal of former Ivory Coast president

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Supporters of the presidential candidate Kouadio Konan Bertin, dance over a sound truck during the final campaign rally in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. Bertin, known as KKB, has presented his candidacy as an independent candidate for the upcoming Oct. 31 election, and said he would not join the boycott proposed by two main opponents of Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Ivory Coast tensions rise as president seeks 3rd term

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

A wild elephant is prepared to be transported as part of operations carried out by authorities to catch and relocate wild elephants who have upset farming communities, in Guitry, Ivory Coast Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. An elephant who was named Hamed by the residents in the southern region of Ivory Coast has been captured and moved to the zoo in Abidjan as he awaits a transfer to an appropriate park, in an effort to save the dwindling population. (AP Photo)

Ivory Coast relocates elephants to save dwindling population

By HILAIRE ZON - Associated Press

Children wash sheep with soap before they are offered for sale for the upcoming Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, on the beach in Dakar, Senegal Thursday, July 30, 2020. Even in the best of times, many Muslims in West Africa scramble to afford a sheep to slaughter on the Eid al-Adha holiday, a display of faith that often costs as much as a month's income, and now the coronavirus is wreaking havoc on people's budgets putting an important religious tradition beyond financial reach. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

Livestock prices stress Muslims in Africa ahead of Eid

By BABACAR DIONE and KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

13 dead after landslide in Ivory Coast washes away homes

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