Obama wins Miss Universe contest
Miss Universe Equatorial Guinea 2025, Carmen Ismelda Avomo Obama, went from being overlooked to going viral after making one simple request — in Spanish. Before the Miss Universe pageant in…
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Large invasive snake found coiled around woman’s car engine
PALM CITY — A “shocked” Florida woman found a live python tangled up in her car’s engine, and now it’s is giving people fits on social media. It happened Wednesday,…
Equatorial Guinea enforces yearlong internet outage for island that protested construction company
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — When residents of Equatorial Guinea’s Annobón island wrote to the government in Malabo in July last year complaining about the dynamite explosions by a Moroccan construction…
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Lawyers for 5 men deported to an African prison accuse Trump’s program of denying them due process
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Five men deported by the United States to Eswatini in July have been held in a maximum-security prison in the African nation for seven weeks without…
Campaigners want to change the world map to show Africa is bigger
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth…
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Caribbean seeks stronger Africa trade as traditional routes waver
BRIDGETOWN (Reuters)— Caribbean nations are looking to "decisively" broaden opportunities for trade with Africa, the secretary-general of its regional bloc said on Monday, in view of looming uncertainty with its…
In Liberia’s version of baseball, there are no bats and no men
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — It was a perfect pitch. The ball sped straight across home plate, where it was met with an equally powerful kick. Perryline Jimmie sprinted toward first…
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Islamic State-aligned rebels kill 66 civilians in eastern Congo
KINSHASA, Congo — Rebels affiliated with the Islamic State group killed 66 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials said Saturday. Fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF),…
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A mystery illness in Congo has killed more than 50 people hours after they felt sick
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five…
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Health officials investigate mystery disease in southwest Congo after 143 deaths
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A flu-like disease that has killed dozens of people over two weeks is being investigated in southwestern Congo, local authorities said. The deaths were recorded between Nov.…