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FILE - A fisherman's boat sails along the River Nile in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Nile basin nations say water-sharing accord has come into force without Egypt’s backing

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

FILE - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi gestures during a joint news conference in Cairo, Egypt, Oct. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool, File)

Somalia says it welcomes Egypt’s offer to deploy peacekeepers there

By Omar Faruk - Associated Press

Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council, secure the area where Dagalo attends a military-backed tribe's rally, in the East Nile province, Sudan, on June 22, 2019. An international rights group on Monday accused the paramilitary group in war-torn Sudan of sexual violence against women, including rape, gang rape, and forced and child marriage. A smaller number of incidents were also attributed to the military, it said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Rights group says sexual violence is rampant in Sudan’s civil war

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

FILE - Djiboutian forces walk inline during their arrival in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Dec. 20, 2011. The United Nations Security Council on Thursday Nov. 9, 2023 suspended for a period of three months the pullout of African Union troop from Somalia, where fighting rages with al-Qaida’s affiliate in East Africa. The decision follows a request by the Horn of Africa nation for the forces to remain in the country to help in the fight against the al-Shabab extremists. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

United Nations suspends pullout of African Union troops from Somalia as battles with militants rage

By Emmanuel Igunza - Associated Press

African heads of state gather for a group photograph at the 35th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Feb. 5, 2022. The G20 group of the world's leading economies is welcoming the African Union as a permanent member, a powerful acknowledgement of the continent of more than 1.3 billion people as its countries seek a more important role on the global stage. (AP Photo, File)

The African Union is joining the G20, a powerful acknowledgement of a continent of 1 billion people

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

Nigerien police officers sit outside the customs offices in Niamey, Niger, Monday, Aug. 21, 2023. Around 300 trucks of food and other materials crossed into Niger from Burkina Faso with many arriving in the capital, Niamey Sunday, according to a regional custom's official. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

The African Union suspends Niger until ‘the effective restoration of constitutional order’

By Sam Mednick - Associated Press

Col. Assimi Goita, who has declared himself the leader of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People, arrives to meet with former Nigerian president and mediator for the West African regional bloc known as ECOWAS, Goodluck Jonathan, at the Ministry of Defense in the capital Bamako, Mali, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. The Sahel's latest wave of coups kicked off in Mali in August 2020 when the democratically elected President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta was overthrown by soldiers led by Col. Assimi Goita. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed, File)

African Union gives 15-day ultimatum to Niger junta to end regime but soldiers seek continuity

By Sam Mednick and Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

Alabama's Montana Fouts pitches against Stanford during the third inning of an NCAA softball Women's College World Series game Friday, June 2, 2023, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Nate Billings)

Professional options increase for softball players as sport grows

By Cliff Brunt - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron, center, salutes Ethiopia's President Sahle-Work Zewde, left, and Senegal's President Macky Sall at the Summit on the Financing of African Economies on May 18, 2021, in Paris. European Union leaders want to reengage with African nations and counter the growing influence from China and Russia across the continent during a two-day summit in Brussels. The EU-African Union gathering starting Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, was initially planned for 2020 but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic and agenda issues. So it's the first time EU and African Union leaders meet in that format since 2017. (Photo by Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

EU summit aims to counter China, Russia influence in Africa

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021, file photo, a man receives his second Moderna coronavirus vaccination, at a health center in Lagos, Nigeria. Moderna said on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, that it will make up to 110 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine available to African countries with the first 15 million doses delivered by the end of this year, 35 million in the first quarter of 2022, and up to 60 million in the second quarter of 2022. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

Moderna agrees to provide 110M doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Africa

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Security forces block a street with an armored personnel carrier during protests against the government and the delay of the country's election in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Friday, Feb. 19, 2021. Security forces in Somalia's capital fired on hundreds of people protesting the delay of the country's election on Friday as at least one explosion was reported at the international airport and armored personnel carriers blocked major streets. (AP Photo)

UN urges Somalia to organize elections without delay

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Ugandan troops in Somalia say 189 extremists killed in raid

By Associated Press - Associated Press

A health worker checks the temperature of an elderly patient at the emergency entrance of the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, which is battling an ever-increasing number of COVID-19 patients. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Official: Africa secures close to 300 million vaccine doses

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Darfur clashes kill 15 amid calls for peacekeepers to stay

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Ethiopian Amhara refugee 8-month pregnant Blaines Alfao Eileen, right, sits with Tigray refugee 25-year-old Lemlem Haylo Rada, holding her one-month old baby who was born on a street as she fled, at Um Rakuba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. Ethiopia's government is again warning residents of the besieged capital of the embattled Tigray region as the clock ticks on a 72-hour ultimatum before a military assault, saying &quot;anything can happen.&quot; (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

With Ethiopia on brink of escalation, diplomacy in doubt

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Qantas expects global travel won’t resume until mid-2021

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

This satellite image shows the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile river in the Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia on Tuesday, July 28, 2020. Ethiopia's prime minister on Wednesday, July 22, 2020 hailed the first filling of the massive dam that has led to tensions with Egypt, saying two turbines will begin generating power next year. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

Egypt, Sudan suspend talks with Ethiopia over disputed dam

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg addresses the media during a federal budget update ahead of the 2020/21 budget scheduled for October, at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, July 23, 2020. Australia’s response to the coronavirus pandemic tipped the government’s budget AU$85.8 billion ($61 billion) into the red in the last fiscal year and will create AU$184 billion ($131 billion) more debt in the current year which would be the nation’s biggest deficit since World War II, treasury figures showed on Thursday. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

Pandemic to cost Australia government $131 billion this year

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, April 7, 2020, file photo, U.S. citizens queue to check in and be repatriated aboard an evacuation flight arranged by the U.S. embassy and chartered with Delta Air Lines, at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria. African nations face a difficult choice as infections are rapidly rising: Welcome the international flights that originally brought COVID-19 to the ill-prepared continent, or further hurt their economies. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

Africa starts opening airspace even as COVID-19 cases climb

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

A vaccine volunteer receives an injection at the Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, Johannesburg Wednesday, June 24, 2020. Africa’s first participation in a COVID-19 vaccine trial has begun as volunteers received injections developed at the University of Oxford in Britain. The large-scale trial is being conducted in South Africa, Britain and Brazil. (AP Photo/Siphiwe Sibeko)

Protest versus Africa’s 1st COVID-19 vaccine test shows fear

By Cara Anna - Associated Press