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A boy sells rams ahead of Eid Al-Adha celebrations at Kara market in Ogun South west Nigeria, Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Muslims look forward to the annual Eid feast. Many Africans are now struggling to afford it
As Eid al-Adha approaches, many Muslim families across west Africa are struggling to afford rams for the traditional sacrifice, with prices tripling in some areas due to inflation, insecurity, and economic policies.
 
Benin’s mecca of spirits and gods draws tourists and followers with famed Voodoo festival
Benin’s Ouidah has celebrated its annual Voodoo Festival which has made the town a mecca for Voodoo worshippers as well as a tourist attraction.
 
A woman waits for her child to be administered the malaria vaccine R21/Matrix-M at the comprehensive Health Centre in Agudama-Epie, in Yenagoa, Nigeria, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Hardest-hit Nigeria is latest African country to provide malaria vaccine to young children
Nigeria is the latest African country to give a new malaria vaccine to young childen. The country began its vaccination campaign last week.
 
Olaribigbe Akeem, wearing protective gear, uses a sledgehammer to break a television set to vent his anger inside the Shadow Rage Room in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, July 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
How do you deal with stress? In Nigeria, swinging a sledgehammer in a ‘rage room’ helps
In Nigeria’s largest city, stressed-out residents are finding their reset button in a “rage room” where they pay to smash electronics and furniture with a sledgehammer.
 
Prince Harry, center, plays basketball with children during the Giant of Africa Foundation at the Dream Big Basketball clinic in Lagos Nigeria, Sunday, May 12, 2024. Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are in Nigeria to champion the Invictus Games, which Prince Harry founded to aid the rehabilitation of wounded and sick servicemembers and veterans. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Nigeria’s fashion and dancing styles are in the spotlight as Harry and Meghan visit Lagos
Nigeria’s fashion and traditional dances were at full display during Prince Harry and Meghan’s visit to the country’s largest city, Lagos.
 
Funmilayo Kotun, 66-years-old, a malaria patient is photographed in her one room in Makoko neighbourhood of Lagos, Nigeria, Saturday, April 20, 2024. When cases of locally transmitted malaria were found in the United States last year, it was a reminder that climate change is reviving the threat, or broadening the range, of some diseases. But across the African continent malaria has never left.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Climate change is bringing malaria to new areas. In Africa, it never left
When cases of locally transmitted malaria were found in the United States last year, it was a reminder that climate change is reviving or migrating the threat of some diseases.
 
A prosthetist molds a cast for Princess Igbinosa, 10, who lost her leg following a traffic accident in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. Princess can now walk, thanks to an artificial limb from the IREDE Foundation, a group providing children like her with free prosthetics and helping their families offset the average cost of $2,000 to $3,000. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Nigerian group provides hundreds of prosthetic limbs to amputee children thanks to crowdfunding
Nigerian children with amputated limbs are getting help to walk again and fight social stigma through the support of a group that has given free artificial limbs to more than 500 children.