Mozambique
FILE - In this Tuesday, June 22, 2021 file photo, healthcare workers prepare to test patients for COVID-19 at the Lancet Laboratories in Johannesburg. Africa is facing a devastating resurgence of COVID-19 infections whose peak will surpass that of earlier waves as the continent's countries struggle to vaccinate even a small percentage of the population, top health officials said Thursday June 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)
Africa battles new COVID-19 wave hitting faster and harder

By Carley Petesch Jun. 24, 2021 11:19 AM EDT

FILE - In this Friday, March 22, 2019 file photo, children scrape through for remaining rice inside a pot at a center for those displaced after Cyclone Idai hit coastal Mozambique, in Beira, Mozambique. The U.N. high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi said Friday June 17, 2021, that conflicts and the impact of climate change in places like Mozambique were among the leading sources of new flows of refugees and internally displaced people in 2020.(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)
UN: Millions driven from homes in 2020 despite COVID crisis

By Jamey Keaten And Edith M. Lederer Jun. 18, 2021 07:19 AM EDT

FILE - In this Saturday Sept. 14, 2019 file photo, former Zambia President Kenneth Kaunda is supported by former Nigerian President Olusegan Obasanjo, left, at the state funeral of former Zimbabwean leader, Robert Mugabe in Harare, Zimbabwe. Zambia’s first president Kenneth Kaunda has died at the age of 97, the country's president Edward Lungu announced Thursday June 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)
Zambia's 1st president, Kenneth Kaunda, dies at age 97

By Noel Sichalwe And Andrew Meldrum Jun. 17, 2021 12:05 PM EDT

French President Emmanuel Macron, center, and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa arrive at the University of Pretoria Future Africa in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday May 28, 2021. Macron and Ramaphosa are launching a program to support African vaccine production, a project backed by the European Union, the United States and the World Bank. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Visiting South Africa, France's Macron pledges vaccine help

By Mogomotsi Magome May. 28, 2021 01:03 PM EDT

UN official: Conflicts make controlling COVID more difficult

By Edith M. Lederer May. 25, 2021 09:02 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Despite last year’s U.N. call for global cease-fires to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, many conflicts never stopped including in Syria,...

Maggie Sedidi, left, a 59-year-old nurse at Soweto's Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital, reads a medical questioner before receiving her dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Soweto, South Africa, Friday, March 5, 2021. Sedidi is optimistic: "By next year, or maybe the year after, I really do hope that people will be able to begin returning to normal life." (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
After pandemic year, weary world looks back — and forward

By Michelle R. Smith And Andrew Meldrum Mar. 10, 2021 12:03 AM EST

FILE - In this Monday March 25, 2019 file photo, Beira Mayor Daviz Simango, right, pauses from directing disaster relief operations in Beira, Mozambique. Simango, the leader of Mozambique’s opposition MDM party and the mayor of the major port city of Beira, has died in a South Africa hospital, according to local media on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. Party officials said Simango, 57, died of complications from COVID-19, diabetes and a stroke. (AP Photo/Cara Anna, file)
Influential mayor of Mozambique city dies of COVID-19

By Andrew Meldrum Feb. 22, 2021 12:47 PM EST

South Africa reopens its land borders as virus cases decline

By Mogomotsi Magome Feb. 15, 2021 05:37 AM EST
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa has reopened its major land borders with neighboring countries after closing them last month to prevent...

This photo provided by the French Army (EMA) shows soldiers carrying medical relief at Mayotte hospital, Monday, Feb.8, 2021. The French army is sending relief to the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, but some in Mayotte fear it's too little, too late for a region where masks are a luxury and where nearly a third of the population has no running water. (Etat Major des Armees via AP)
Surging virus in French African outpost reveals inequalities

By Sony Chamsidine And Angela Charlton Feb. 10, 2021 02:53 AM EST

People wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus, sit on chairs whilst queuing to be screened and tested for COVID-19 in Eldorado Park outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Africa begins continent-wide study of COVID-19 antibodies

By Cara Anna Aug. 13, 2020 08:24 AM EDT

Zimbabwean migrant Fatima Fachi, who is blind, sits on her bed in her room in Johannesburg, South Africa on April 14, 2020. A total of 23 families of blind and disabled foreign nationals living in the dilapidated building and earning a living by street begging have been hard hit by South Africa's lockdown as they are forced to remain indoors. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
Virus lockdown worsens suffering for Johannesburg beggars

By Bram Janssen Apr. 29, 2020 05:07 AM EDT