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Mar 28

Vice President Harris confronts painful past, envisions future during visit to Africa

By Chris Megerian, Colleen Long, Associated Press

Harris on Tuesday stepped through the black doors of a colonial-era seaside fort and down into the dungeons, touring a site where millions of enslaved Africans were held captive before they were loaded onto ships bound for the Americas.

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Mar 26

Kamala Harris arrives in Ghana, kicking off weeklong Africa visit to bolster relations

By Chris Megerian, Associated Press

Ghana is one of the continent's most stable democracies, but Harris is arriving at a time of severe challenges for the West African nation.

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Mar 13

Cyclone Freddy claims more lives as it slams Malawi, Mozambique

By Wanjohi Kabukuru, Vitus-Gregory Gondwe, Associated Press

An unrelenting Cyclone Freddy that is currently battering southern Africa has killed at least 56 people in Malawi and Mozambique since it struck the continent for a second time on Saturday night, authorities in both countries have confirmed.

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Mar 13

Vice President Kamala Harris to visit Africa as part of latest U.S. outreach

By Chris Megerian, Associated Press

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to travel to Africa at the end of March as the United States seeks to pitch itself as a better partner for the continent than China is.

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Mar 11

Cyclone Freddy returns to strike Mozambique for second time since late February

By Wanjohi Kabukuru, Associated Press

Record-breaking Cyclone Freddy made its second landfall in Mozambique Saturday night, pounding the southern African nation with heavy rains and disrupting transport and telecommunications services.

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Feb 25

Long lines, delays frustrate voters in Nigeria’s presidential election

By Chinedu Asadu, Associated Press

Frustrated Nigerians cast their ballots into the evening Saturday, hours after the official deadline for joining the voting line in Africa’s most populous nation after late starts and sporadic violence caused delays at polling stations.

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Feb 25

Africa’s largest film festival offers hope amid years of strife in Burkina Faso

By Sam Mednick, Associated Press

Most film festivals can be counted on to provide entertainment, laced with some introspection. The weeklong FESPACO that opens Saturday in violence-torn Burkina Faso's capital goes beyond that to also offer hope, and a symbol of endurance.

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Jan 21

Yellen visits historic site of slave-trading post off the coast of Senegal

By Fatima Hussein, Associated Press

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen paid a solemn visit Saturday to the salmon-colored house on an island off Senegal that is one of the most recognized symbols of the horrors of the Atlantic slave trade that trapped tens of millions of Africans…

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Jan 20

Yellen hails rising U.S.-Africa relations after visiting young entrepreneurs in Senegal

By Fatima Hussein, Associated Press

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is visiting Senegal with a message about the future of U.S.-Africa relations.

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Jan 19

Treasury Secretary Yellen kickstarts Biden administration visit to Africa

By Fatima Hussein, Associated Press

The Biden administration's big push to engage more with Africa is underway as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen begins a 10-day visit aimed at promoting all the economic possibilities that lie between the U.S. and the world's second-largest continent.

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