CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A China policy giving Africa’s biggest economies tariff-free access to its market for the next two years came into effect Friday while its economic rival the United States seeks to impose new import taxes under President Donald Trump’s push for protectionism. The China deal covers Africa’s 20 largest economies, …

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A funeral was held Thursday for Mali ‘s former defense minister, Gen. Sadio Camara, a key architect of the military government’s security partnership with Russia. Camara was killed during last weekend’s coordinated militant attack in the West African nation, the largest in over a decade. His death, and the major setback …

CAIRO (AP) — A boat carrying 33 Sudanese migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea near the eastern Libyan town of Tobruk, leaving at least 17 people dead and nine others missing, U.N. officials said Thursday. Only seven of the people on board survived the shipwreck, the U.N. refugee agency said …