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Ugandan legislators participate in the debate of the Anti-Homosexuality bill, which proposes tough new penalties for same-sex relations during a sitting at the Parliament building in Kampala, Uganda March 21, 2023. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa

Gay activist says Uganda LGBTQ community 'in shock' at new law

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Uganda passes a law making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ

Satellite imagery shows Tropical Cyclone Freddy approaching Madagascar in this undated satellite handout image obtained February 20, 2023. NASA Worldview/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

Storm Freddy kills more than 100 on return to Mozambique, Malawi

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At least 51 soldiers killed in north Burkina Faso attack on Friday

A security officer is seen at the opening of the 36th Ordinary session of the Assembly of the African Union at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia February 18, 2023. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

UN allocates $250 million for crises like famine threat in Africa

Pope Francis sits next to Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi as he attends the welcoming ceremony at the Palais de la Nation on the first day of his apostolic journey, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, January 31, 2023. Simone Risoluti/Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERS

'Hands off Africa,' Pope Francis tells rich world

Freshly harvested eggplant bags are loaded on a cart at a field of farmer Mor Kabe, on the outskirts of Notto Gouye Diama village, Thies region, Senegal January 24, 2023. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Development partners commit $30 billion to food production in Africa

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Development partners commit $30 billion to food production in Africa

South Africa's Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor shakes hands with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, ahead of their bilateral meeting in Pretoria, South Africa, January 23, 2023. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

South Africa defends planned military drills with Russia and China

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen receives a pilgrim award certificate from Augustin Senghor, Mayor of the Goree Island, after she visited the House of Slaves (Maison des Esclaves) at Goree Island off the coast of Dakar, Senegal January 21, 2023. REUTERS/Ngouda Dione

Yellen, at former slave port, sees path of renewal for Africa and US

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during her interview with Reuters in New Delhi, India, November 11, 2022. REUTERS/Altaf Hussain

Yellen says Russian oil price cap could save African countries $6 billion annually

FILE PHOTO: Somali displaced mother Binti Moalim Hassan lays beside her malnourished 3-year-old daughter Faduma in a hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia October 25, 2022. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

Hunger levels in West and Central Africa set to hit all-time high - UN

US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Senegal President Macky Sall attend the US-Africa Leaders Summit Closing Session on Promoting Food Security and Food Systems Resilience, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington, DC, US December 15, 2022. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File Photo

World Bank's IFC sees 'huge' potential to boost investment in Africa