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France donates COVID vaccines to Africa through UN program

By Jamey Keaten Apr. 23, 2021 10:51 AM EDT
GENEVA (AP) — France on Friday became the first rich country to donate COVID-19 vaccines from its national supply to a developing nation through the U.N.'s jab...

African Cup qualifier canceled over disputed COVID-19 tests

By Gerald Imray Mar. 30, 2021 07:32 PM EDT
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Benin refused to play a decisive African Cup of Nations qualifying game in Sierra Leone on Tuesday after disputing that five of...

Migrants try to extinguish a small fire in a field near Mytilene town, on the northeastern island of Lesbos, Greece, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020. Thousands of asylum-seekers spent a fourth night sleeping in the open on the Greek island of Lesbos, after successive fires destroyed the notoriously overcrowded Moria camp during a coronavirus lockdown. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Thousands left homeless by Greek refugee camp fire protest

By Iliana Mier And Elena Becatoros Sep. 12, 2020 04:21 AM EDT

Migrants wearing face masks sit on the deck of a police rescue boat as they arrive at the Arguineguin port in Gran Canaria island, Spain, after being rescued in the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. More than 250 people are known to have died or gone missing in the Atlantic route so far this year. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Migrants trying to reach Europe pushed to deadly Atlantic

Renata Brito Sep. 02, 2020 03:09 AM EDT

Asylum-seekers Kassim Diallo and Yamadou Konaré of Mali walk next to the beach in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. Kassim, 21, said “I risked my life like this because I was so sad. I have too many problems. But it’s not normal. A human being shouldn’t do this. But how else can we do it? It is tough there.” (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Migrants trying to reach Europe pushed to deadly Atlantic

Renata Brito Sep. 02, 2020 02:21 AM EDT

27 dead after migrant boat capsizes off West African coast

By Carley Petesch Aug. 07, 2020 07:48 AM EDT
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — At least 27 people died when a boat carrying migrants capsized off the West African coast between Mauritania and Western Sahara, United...

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to the press upon arrival at Nouakchott Oumtounsy International Airport Tuesday June 30, 2020, in Nouakchott, to attend a G5 Sahel summit. Leaders from the five countries of West Africa's Sahel region, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, meet with French President Emmanuel Macron and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Mauritania's capital Nouakchott on Tuesday to discuss military operations against Islamic extremists in the region, as jihadist attacks mount. The five African countries, known as the G5, have formed a joint military force that is working with France, which has thousands of troops to battle the extremists in the Sahel, the region south of the Sahara Desert. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)
French, Spanish and African leaders meet to combat extremism

By Carley Petesch And Sylvie Corbet Jun. 30, 2020 09:32 AM EDT

FILE - In this May 19, 2017 file photo, a French soldier stands inside a military helicopter during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to the troops of Operation Barkhane, Islamic extremists in West Africa's Sahel region are trying to exploit COVID-19 to gain followers but haven't had much success, according to the commander of the French military's Operation Barkhane there. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP, File)
Sahel force fighting terrorism faces growing threat

By Edith M. Lederer Jun. 06, 2020 01:59 AM EDT