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Rumors swirled that Morocco, perhaps spurred by Israel and the United States, organized a recent border disaster. That unproven speculation, experts said, was exacerbated by the region’s complicated history.
A wave of disinformation online contributed to a surge of migrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta who were trying to reach Europe, resulting in about 90 deaths.
The inhabitants of the Chagos Islands were expelled by the British 60 years ago. Refugees were anxious to return this year, but their hopes have been caught in a morass of geopolitics.
Fans gathered in Kenya to celebrate a genre born far away but that more and more Africans are coming to appreciate.
In African tech hubs, developers are picking China’s cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over more powerful U.S. ones.
Ceuta, Spain, and Fnideq, Morocco, are physically separated by only a mile, but they are intertwined by family and trade. A recent border crisis is the latest chapter in their story.
The malaria-carrying mosquito is resistant to all insecticides. Scientists are scrambling to find ways to blunt the risk.
The Bundibugyo Ebola virus takes its name from this small town, where it was first discovered in 2007. Now, the species has returned to eastern Congo, halting life on a busy border.
The amount is still far below what the U.S. spent previously on humanitarian and health aid, but resumes the flow of money for key efforts to fight malnutrition and disease.
The peninsula on Morocco’s northern coast, which Spain has governed for centuries, has been a frequent site of mass migrant crossings and political tensions.
The disease has killed more than 1,500 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo in just over two months, outpacing the response.
Nigeria, a coastal country in western Africa, was landlocked in the Sahara, among other errors. The department said it had been “hastily altered.”
A New York Times reporter’s quest to beat the personal best he set 14 years ago took him to a Kenyan village, where the biggest benefit he got was not what he expected.
Companies in Africa and India will make generic versions of the pill that could cost as little as $5 per person per year. But access to the drug and other new products in much of Latin America remains uncertain.
Travel accounts that feature risky, cross-continental journeys are proliferating on social media. Security experts have serious concerns.
There are a million people displaced by violence in the epicenter. They live in dangerous conditions and are fighting the virus with very little clean water.
As immigration surges in the country, activists are going to extreme lengths to expel foreign nationals, often taking the law into their own hands.
New research also shows that children and high-risk adult populations have been particularly affected.
As the nation convulses with protests and violence, data and research suggest that some of the biggest arguments against foreigners don’t stand up against the facts.
The death of the man, a Moroccan resident of Italy, set off an outcry across the country and prompted comparisons to the death of George Floyd in the United States.
The aid workers were on the frontline in the fight against the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and have shown no symptoms, their employer said.
About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.
The budget cuts threaten global progress on everything from heart disease to H.I.V. — and could affect American drug companies, too.
The drug could change the course of the AIDS epidemic. But the Trump administration has gutted the programs that might have paid for it in low-income countries.
The State Department is restarting the processing of visa applications from students and visiting scholars, but is screening for “hostility” toward the United States.
Insurgents are expanding from West Africa’s Sahel region toward Atlantic coastal nations such as Ivory Coast, creating new terrorism hot spots and displacing millions.
The administration gave the nations 60 days to fix concerns, according to a State Department cable. The president already imposed a full or partial ban on citizens of 19 countries.
Video from a national park in Uganda depicted a parade of predatory species feeding on and dispersing fruit bats that are known natural reservoirs of infectious diseases.
A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition.
Eight families of Mennonites have moved from Mexico to Angola, in southern Africa, raising fears among some Angolans that they will be squeezed out by the new arrivals.
West African nations are struggling to track and treat infections, and experts warn the outbreak is rapidly spreading, while the United States is cutting global vaccination efforts.
Experts who study protest movements say the scenes unfolding in California broadly follow a script that has played out many times in other countries — sometimes with deadly consequences.
African students have traded academic institutions in the West for Chinese alternatives. The Trump administration’s clampdown on international students and visas could accelerate the shift.
The authorities were still searching for four children. Inclement weather has left thousands displaced.
Policymakers in many countries assume that birthrates have fallen because people want fewer children, but a global study says financial insecurity is driving those decisions.
Seven of the 12 countries on President Trump’s new list are on the continent, where some said the policy was discriminatory and would unfairly affect their future.
On May 20th, a flight with eight deportees left Texas headed to South Sudan, a country on the brink of civil war. But mid-flight, a judicial battle began to unfold that forced the flight to land in Djibouti. Katrin Bennhold, speaks with Hamed Aleaziz, New York Times reporter covering Homeland Security and Immigration, to understand what’s going on and how it fits into President Trump’s larger immigration plan.
Mr. Lungu, who was recently barred by a court ruling from running for president again, left a checkered legacy, with allegations that he eroded freedoms while in office.
The travel ban revives an effort from President Trump’s first term that led to chaos and court battles.
The spending proposal terminates support of health programs that, according to the proposal, “do not make Americans safer.”
The delivery was supposed to be the first to arrive in the embattled city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State, in more than a year.
UNICEF accused “armed men” of raping scores of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been ravaged by conflict recently.
The U.S.S. Harry S. Truman, which had launched airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen, struck a commercial vessel near Port Said on Wednesday, Navy officials said.
Only three weeks into the Trump administration’s suspension of money for foreign aid, those who work in women’s health say the impact has already been devastating.
A new directive puts further exemptions on hold. Aid workers also say the U.S. government has made it impossible to pay partners around the world.
She was the first woman to fly rescue missions in a combat zone, in Indochina and Algeria. She was also the first Frenchwoman to become an army general.
When a scientist received a video of a spotted hyena in the southern part of his country, he thought someone was playing a trick on him.
Some who left the country in successive waves of emigration have felt drawn back to aid recovery efforts after the bloody and destructive war between Israel and Hezbollah.
The collapse of U.S.A.I.D. at the hands of President Trump and Elon Musk is already leaving gaping holes in vital health care and other services that millions of Africans rely on for their survival.
An executive order from President Trump on Friday put the weight of U.S. influence behind a hotly disputed claim in South Africa that Afrikaners were the “victims of unjust racial discrimination.”
Critics say a Trump administration order calls into question the United States’ global standing and reliability.
As the self-exiled leader of the South-West Africa People’s Organization, he directed a guerrilla army in a 24-year war for independence from South African rule.
The president ordered that all foreign assistance to South Africa be halted and said his administration would prioritize the resettling of white, “Afrikaner refugees” into the United States.
A single image captures the grim task facing those who needed to find space for the dead after a spasm of violence in Central Africa.
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
The army and the paramilitary forces are locked in a new and ruinous battle for territory across the northeast African nation.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the Central African country in decades.
President Trump’s pause on aid, and the gutting of the primary aid agency, could jeopardize the health of more than 20 million people worldwide, including 500,000 children, experts say.
Rebels backed by Rwanda are seizing huge tracts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The rebels, known as M23, say they are protecting ethnic Tutsis, the minority group massacred in a 1994 genocide. But experts say the real reason is Congo’s rare minerals, which power our phones and devices. Ruth Maclean, New York Times West Africa bureau chief, explains how the rebels and their patrons in Rwanda are profiting from the conflict.
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
For those living in Goma, which has been captured by Rwanda-backed rebels, there is little water, little food and much uncertainty.
The unidentified patient had recently returned from Africa, where the virus has caused a deadly epidemic, health officials said.
The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights advocates and community leaders call the tactics inhumane.
The resilient species — which regrow after wildfires — are said to capture the spirit of a nation reborn.
An embattled leader for decades in Niger’s rough-and-tumble politics, he alternated stints in high office with prison and exile.
Donald J. Trump has said he would transform America’s relationship with allies and adversaries. He has pledged to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, increase tariffs and deport millions.
Dozens of teenagers had been accused of treason and faced possible death sentences, but indignation over their treatment, including lack of food, has the government backpedaling.
The epidemic in Africa continues to grow, prompting fears of another outbreak in the U.S. But the vaccine is no longer free, and vulnerable people are going without.
The Russian mercenary group operated with little pushback in the West African nation — until it launched one of its most ambitious missions.
Political parties that have governed for decades since African countries overthrew colonial rulers are now being challenged by frustrated young voters.
After 58 years, the Botswana Democratic Party lost its majority in Parliament, becoming the latest long-dominant party in southern Africa to fall from power.
Since the documentary’s cameras stopped rolling, plans for a new museum to showcase the treasures have stalled, and the artifacts are once again off limits to the public in Benin.
Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school.
The party that has governed the country since 1966 could lose power as the economy struggles from a slump in demand for diamonds, which made Botswana an African success story.
After a recent dam disaster, Nigerian officials blamed God, climate change and poor people. But experts had warned the dam was at risk well before it collapsed. The officials did nothing.
Climate change, civil conflict and growing resistance to insecticides and treatments are all contributing to an alarming spread of cases.
Paramilitary forces ransacked villages and killed hundreds of people, activists said, hastening calls for the United Nations to deploy a mission to protect civilians.
Ivory Coast, long considered one of West Africa’s most tolerant societies, has recently seen a string of assaults on L.G.B.T.Q. people after several social media influencers exhorted their followers to “hunt” gay men.
Mati Diop examines the fate of 26 treasures — sometimes from their point of view — looted from Benin in 1892.
The United States and Nigeria often collaborate. But the arrest of an American worker strained their diplomatic relations.
Daniel Chapo of the Frelimo party, which has governed the southern African nation for nearly 50 years, was declared the victor amid violence and widespread allegations of fraud.
The Sani family in northern Nigeria has six children, more than the parents can afford but fewer than their own parents had. Birthrates, and the decisions couples make about family size, are changing across Africa.
Leading supporters of the top opposition presidential candidate, Venâncio Mondlane, were fatally shot in their car following an election marred by allegations of fraud.
It’s the first impeachment under the country’s new Constitution, but some are now calling for a similar move against President William Ruto.
Scientists recently found the planet’s longest continuously occupied termite colony in an arid region of South Africa. It dates to the time of the Neanderthals.
In Rwanda, 11 deaths have been reported from this rare but deadly disease. Two people tested negative in Germany this week.
A shadowy network of ships has registered in Gabon, highlighting how Vladimir V. Putin is building an economy beyond the reach of Western sanctions.
The grisly allegations have sparked debate over some of the country’s most explosive issues, including race, gender-based violence and farm ownership.
The boat was carrying about 300 people on the Niger River. Rescuers continued to search for survivors.
The boat was carrying about 300 people on the Niger River. Rescuers continued to search for survivors.
Many others are missing after Yemeni operators instructed hundreds of African migrants on two boats near the Djibouti coast to get off and swim, the International Organization for Migration said.
Male locusts have long been observed shielding mates from other males. Researchers say this behavior may also protect the females from desert temperatures.
Coming late to basketball, he nevertheless found stardom, retiring with the second-most blocked shots in league history. He devoted much of his life to humanitarian causes.
The Biden administration is struggling to halt cooperation among Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. It feels urgency over the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East while also aiming to protect Taiwan.
He was the first Black African to head a major international organization, but complaints about his tenure led the U.S. and Britain to pull out of it.
Most of the victims were women killed in one house, according to the police, who have started a manhunt for the gunmen.
Growing up in a Black township, Vusi Mdoyi found a sprinkle of joy under apartheid in a street-dancing style known as pantsula. As a choreographer, he has elevated it into high art, injected with ideas.
A researcher followed up on a study warning that the massive trees were in danger, and found many venerable specimens thriving.
The latest outbreak of fighting comes as nations gathered at the U.N. General Assembly called for an end to the war and for aid to be fast-tracked to millions in need.
The United Arab Emirates is expanding a covert campaign to back a winner in Sudan’s civil war. Waving the banner of the Red Crescent, it is also smuggling weapons and deploying drones.
In his first interview with Western media since becoming president of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye said the United Nations has to change to reflect changing world demographics.
With electricity scarce, Africa’s most populated country struggles to provide lifesaving cooling without worsening the very crisis causing the heat.
The partnership between Russia’s space agency and the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger deepens these countries’ turn toward the Kremlin in their effort to fight off Islamist insurgencies.
The East African country’s leading opposition party said that its presidential candidate in the last election and its chairman were among dozens detained before a protest called to draw attention to the killing and abduction of government critics.
The trip by President William Ruto of Kenya came against a bleak backdrop in Haiti, where gangs operate with impunity and the Kenyan officers remain largely out of sight.
At least 129 people died when inmates tried to escape from Makala Prison, where conditions are abysmal and overcrowding is a major problem.
A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and behavior of the much-ridiculed bird.
Days after the West African country’s ruling military was ambushed by Islamist rebels, it has sought to hide the true extent of the carnage.
Flooding events around the world share a common factor of an atmosphere made warmer by climate change. What can be done to help citizens prepare?
Three scientists were recognized by the Lasker Awards for their work on the GLP-1 hormone. Others were honored for work to stop H.I.V. and for immune system discoveries.
An extremist group that claims allegiance to Al Qaeda said it was responsible for assaults on a military police school and an air base in the West African country of Mali.
The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western approaches to the field.
There is widespread concern that the November election will not end well and that American democracy has frayed to the breaking point.
Earth’s shadow will partially cover one of the biggest and brightest full moons this year.
In an impoverished orphanage in Sierra Leone, she longed to dance ballet. After being adopted by American parents, her improbable dream came true.
Flooding caused by heavy rains has left more than 1,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed.
Derna is quickly being reconstructed after a flood that killed thousands. But questions linger about the process, and residents say new buildings cannot erase their trauma.
Mr. Wine, a pop star turned politician who ran for president, is in the hospital, but his injuries are not life-threatening, one of his lawyers said.
Rebecca Cheptegei, a long-distance runner who competed in the Olympic marathon in Paris, is in critical condition after a man poured gas on her and set her on fire, police in Kenya said.
The government said that at least 24 inmates had been shot dead as they attempted to escape from Makala Central Prison, which rights organizations have long warned is dangerously overcrowded.
The Southern African country plans to butcher over 700 wild animals, including 83 elephants and 300 zebras, to feed people and, it hopes, cut down on dangerous cross-species encounters.
The country at the center of a global health emergency is struggling even to diagnose cases and provide basic care.
Crushing obligations to foreign creditors that have few precedents have sapped numerous African nations of growth and stoked social instability.
The author sought an authentic experience, and found it in Lets Drift, “an exuberant Kenyan-centered enterprise” of people living in and near Nairobi.
The Arba’at dam fell apart after days of heavy rain, killing villagers and flooding communities.
Drugmakers have supplies ready to ship that are necessary to stop a potential pandemic. But W.H.O. regulations have slowed access.
American-led mediators secured famine relief for needy areas. But with Sudan’s military failing to attend, a cease-fire was far out of reach.
The diamond was unearthed using new technology, and miners hope it will bring back luster to a struggling industry.
The police think that the suspected killer, Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, may have had help breaking out. A manhunt was underway.
An evangelical pastor in Kenya ordered his flock to shun education and medicine and starve their children to death in order to meet Jesus, witnesses in a manslaughter trial said.
Kenya has strict rules about displaying the flag. But some people have been wearing and waving them, and draping them on coffins, as a symbol of resistance.
Accused of blocking food aid for its starving people, Sudan’s military announced it would reopen the main border crossing with Chad, which it had closed for six months to U.N. relief trucks.
In his posts atop the governing bodies for African and global soccer, he fought to establish the continent as an equal to Europe and South America.
The virus is evolving, and the newest version spreads more often through heterosexual populations. But the vaccines should still work.
The World Health Organization declared a global health emergency over an outbreak that has spread to more than a dozen African countries.
The epidemic is concentrated in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the virus has now appeared in a dozen other African countries.
The American-backed talks in Switzerland, which started on Wednesday, aim to halt a catastrophic civil war. But only one side has turned up.
The clampdown came after the police banned a youth rally and pointed to the anti-government protests that have swept neighboring Kenya in recent months.
Weeks after an international police force began arriving to take on gangs, armed groups are redirecting their campaign of terror outside the capital.
Hundreds of students from Venezuela, Afghanistan, Israel and elsewhere converged at Carnegie Hall, using music to cope in a time of strife and unrest.
As the conflict in Sudan rages on, an army has built its own state within a state — a vision of what the nation could become.
Her career began during apartheid and outlived it, reaching a personal milestone in a blockbuster movie and its sequel.
Imane Khelif, of Algeria, moved past questions about her eligibility with a unanimous decision over her Thai opponent. She will now fight for a gold medal.
Relations between the two countries soured after a coup last year. Now the United States is scrambling to find new security partners.
Imane Khelif advanced to the semifinals, ensuring she will leave the Paris Games with at least a bronze medal.
Gunmen and a suicide bomber struck a seaside hotel in one of the deadliest such assaults in the country in months. The Islamist militant group Al Shabab claimed responsibility.
The Justice Department and special counsel Robert Mueller investigated whether a Trump adviser was part of an Egyptian plan, never proven, to funnel $10 million to the 2016 Trump campaign.
Thousands turned out across Africa’s most populous country despite government attempts to prevent them. Demonstrations have left at least 13 people dead, Amnesty International says.
Experts who monitor global hunger rarely make an official declaration of famine, but they just sounded the alarm for more than half a million people who have fled the fighting in Sudan’s civil war.
The International Botanical Congress voted to change a scientific name belonging to hundreds of plant species because it was offensive in southern Africa.
The West African nation’s former leader and some of his top aides were found guilty of crimes against humanity for mass murder and rapes committed during and after a pro-democracy protest in 2009.
For 15 months, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has been leading a war for control of the country against his rival, Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan, the head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
A bitter fight with the French gymnastics federation threatened the Olympic hopes of Kaylia Nemour. Dual nationality offered a way out.
War, famine and floods have beleaguered the world’s youngest nation. The arrival of its men’s basketball team at the Paris Olympics is set to offer a modicum of hope.
Most of the world’s oldest leaders — in their 80s and even one in his 90s — are in Africa, which happens to have the youngest population of any continent.
The African National Congress severed ties with its former leader over his decision to become the leading voice of an opposition party in the last election.
Here is what we know about the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s views on issues like migration and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
The use of artificial intelligence is exploding around the world, but the technology’s language models are primarily trained in English, leaving many speakers of other languages behind.
A country torn apart by civil war could soon face one of the world’s worst famines in decades, experts said.
The West African nation of Burkina Faso was once known for its lively arts scene. Now, it is a country torn apart by Islamist extremists and the government’s brutal effort to drive them out.
In seven years, Racheal Kundananji went from playing her first organized game to signing a multimillion-dollar contract. Her rise could have lasting effects.
He believed that music could transcend national borders set by colonialism and restore ancient ties, even as it embraced the changes of a globalizing society.
A waterlogged hillside above a village gave way, burying several houses in mud. Neighbors and rescue workers who had rushed to help were hit by a second slide.
After at least 10 sacks with body parts were found in a dump, a suspect was said to admit to 42 murders. But some doubt the case, and people with missing loved ones say the police were slow to help.
Overshadowed by fighting in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a dispute in the west between two ethnic groups has resulted in thousands of civilians killed and more than 550,000 displaced near the capital, Kinshasa.
The police said that nine mutilated and dismembered bodies had been discovered, and that the suspect had confessed, only the latest violence against women in a rising tide of it in the East African nation.
Lawmakers in the West African country had supported overturning the prohibition, but changed course on Monday after a vociferous campaign led by women.
The Central African nation is voting on a potential fourth term for President Paul Kagame. Opposition figures say they have been threatened and arbitrarily detained.
The Central African nation is voting on a potential fourth term for President Paul Kagame. Opposition figures say they have been threatened and arbitrarily detained.
An unknown number of people were trapped in the rubble of the building in Jos, a city of one million residents in the central part of the country.
President William Ruto dismissed all but one of his cabinet secretaries after demonstrations over a finance bill that would have raised taxes led to the deaths of at least 39 people.
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are withdrawing from a 49-year-old regional alliance that has allowed goods and nearly 400 million people to travel freely across a tightly connected region.
Britain gave Rwanda hundreds of millions of pounds, even though no asylum seekers were deported to the Central African nation under the agreement.
The sport, in which you strap on a 30-foot kite and skim across the waves, is about to make its Olympic debut. Here’s where non-Olympians can give it a try.
About 400 Kenyan officers have deployed to Haiti as part of the first wave of a multinational contingent tasked with trying to restore order in the gang-plagued Caribbean nation.
The Biden administration is trying to get foreign companies to invest in chip-making in the United States and more countries to set up factories to do final assembly and packaging.
The danger to migrants while crossing the Mediterranean is well documented, but an earlier phase of their trek, across the Sahel and the Sahara, is deadlier, researchers say in a new report.
Dozens of activists say they were snatched from their homes or off the streets by hooded, armed men. Some are still missing, and the disappearances have unnerved a nation long seen as a pillar of stability.
After years of delay, millions of malaria vaccines are being supplied to children in Africa. Tens of thousands died waiting.
Two men claim to be the emir of Kano, an ancient kingdom in northern Nigeria. Their struggle for power and influence is feeding into a wider competition ahead of the country’s next election.
A new law in the West African country of Sierra Leone allows child brides to annul their marriages and be financially compensated.
An ancient aquatic predator resembling a giant salamander turned up in an African fossil deposit, suggesting unwritten chapters of how animals moved onto land.
Suicide bombers killed at least 32 people in three attacks in a Nigerian city once controlled by Boko Haram. Women, said experts, are more likely to go unnoticed when carrying out terrorist attacks.
To accommodate a broad and diverse alliance of parties, President Cyril Ramaphosa increased the size of his executive team. Now the challenge is getting a diverse group of politicians to agree.
Three female attackers detonated devices at a wedding and at a funeral in a city once ruled by Boko Haram, emergency service officials said. So far, no group has claimed responsibility.
A fossil bed in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco is allowing new insights into the anatomies of arthropods that lived a half-billion years ago.
A devastating civil war is pushing the country toward a full-blown famine, according to the international body that measures hunger.
The demonstrations were held despite his withdrawal of the tax bill that sparked days of protests. Some activists, fearing more bloodshed, warned people not to march to the president’s official residence.
Kenya, the fastest growing economy in Africa, is on the brink of a fiscal calamity. Across Africa, nations are spending more on interest than on health or education.
A day after at least 23 people were killed in demonstrations against a tax increase, President William Ruto withdrew the law that he said was necessary to avoid defaulting on the country’s debt.
The court said his crimes had involved overseeing public floggings, torture and arbitrary arrests during a jihadist takeover in northern Mali in 2012.
Kenyan police faced off with protesters in the capital, Nairobi. Civic groups said that at least five people died.
At least five people were killed in clashes with the police that erupted after lawmakers approved tax increases that critics said would drive up the cost of living for millions.
Moscow has largely taken over the African operations of the paramilitary group, once led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed after leading an insurrection against Vladimir Putin.
The movement augurs trouble for President William Ruto, who campaigned on helping the poor. Activists and lawyers said several prominent critics of the finance bill had been abducted.
France is facing deep anticolonial resentment across Africa, but has found a partner in Rwanda, which is embracing French influence despite years of acrimony.
France is facing deep anticolonial resentment across Africa, but has found a partner in Rwanda, which is embracing French influence despite years of acrimony.
The incident came months after another tourist was killed in Zambia when an elephant charged her group. One wildlife expert said the attacks were most likely “freak accidents.”
An injection given just twice a year could herald a breakthrough in protecting the population that has the highest infection rates.
There has long been anecdotal evidence of the wormy creatures taking to the air, but videos recorded in Madagascar at last prove the animals’ acrobatics.
Satellite and video evidence shows that thousands of homes have been razed and tens of thousands of people forced to flee a city in Sudan.
The shortage highlights a widening gulf in the standard of care for people with diabetes, most of whom live in low-income countries.
For the first time since the fall of apartheid, the nation must rely on a coalition of rival parties to govern. Can they get along enough to pull the country out of its crises?
The government is trying to pass a finance bill in Parliament that would involve increasing taxes. Critics say it will raise the cost of living for Kenyans who are already struggling economically.
Methods such as hormonal implants and injections are reaching remote areas, providing more discretion and autonomy.
A new government led by the African National Congress gave Cyril Ramaphosa another term as president, though he faces challenges in Parliament.
The league has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to cultivate an immense potential fan base in Africa and develop future stars.
The Islamic State and Al Qaeda consider Africa ‘very fertile ground,’ said Christopher A. Wray, who is meeting with officials in Nigeria and Kenya.
Declan Walsh, the chief Africa correspondent for The Times, reported from a country where few journalists have gained entry amid a civil war.
UMkhonto weSizwe, which is led by Jacob Zuma, the populist former president, has asserted that the recent election was rigged and the results illegitimate.
After an overnight search, rescuers found the wreckage of the military aircraft that had been carrying Saulos Chilima and nine others.
People in Africa’s most populous nation are suffering as the price of food, fuel and medicine has skyrocketed out of reach for many.
A search is underway after the aircraft carrying Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine other people vanished.
A search is underway after the aircraft carrying Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine other people vanished.
As John Steenhuisen, who leads the second-largest party, negotiates for a place in the government, he must overcome perceptions that his Democratic Alliance favors the interests of white people.
American and French forces have been ordered out of several countries after a series of coups.
Videos showed paramilitaries opening fire on the village in what had been Sudan’s breadbasket region, causing the latest mass civilian casualties in a brutal yearlong war.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s party, the African National Congress, is seeking a broad alliance after it failed to win enough seats in last week’s election to form a government on its own.
The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers.
A year of fighting has turned the once proud capital, Khartoum, into a charred battleground. Millions have fled. Now a famine threatens in one of Africa’s biggest countries.
President Paul Kagame led Rwanda out of the genocide, but has since dominated the country like a colossus. He is running for a fourth term after winning three elections.
A new party led by Mr. Zuma, a former president forced out over corruption allegations, helped ensure that the African National Congress fell short of an outright majority for the first time since the end of apartheid.
A look at the leaders who could shape the country’s future after the African National Congress’s poor showing in elections.
The director Daniel Oriahi is capturing the audience’s attention with his latest film, “The Weekend,” which will premiere at the Tribeca Festival.
Some South African voters welcomed the defeat of the African National Congress in last week’s elections, even as they remain wary of the country’s political future.
The African National Congress received less than 50 percent of the national vote for the first time since gaining power 30 years ago, setting the nation on an uncharted course.
Joseph O’Neill’s fiction incorporates his real-world interests in ways that can surprise even him. His latest novel, “Godwin,” is about an adrift hero searching for a soccer superstar.
As votes trickled in, the power and influence of the African National Congress, which has led the country for 30 years, appeared to be waning.
Artists are struggling on with side exhibitions despite the postponement of the official biennale in Dakar, Senegal, and the disappearance from view of its champion, Kehinde Wiley.
An archaeologist, he wrote widely on everyday life under the pharaohs and did much of his fieldwork at Amarna, considered the Egyptian version of Pompeii.
In a high-stakes national election, the African National Congress, which has governed for three decades since the end of apartheid, may lose its outright majority for the first time.
In pivotal elections on Wednesday, President Cyril Ramaphosa and his African National Congress party are struggling to keep the support of Black middle- and upper-class voters.
A record 51 parties are competing to unseat the long-ruling African National Congress in the national election on Wednesday. Here’s why it won’t be easy.
We spoke to South Africans who grew up in the three decades since the country overthrew apartheid and held its first free election about their lives and plans to vote — or not — in this week's pivotal election.
In Kenya, Revital Healthcare is manufacturing medical products that Africa needs to take charge of routine health care and respond to outbreaks.
The vote in 1994 was a time of hope — but in the weeks before, the country came close to the abyss. A photographer remembers what he witnessed.
A “major non-NATO ally” is a country whose military has a strategic working relationship with the United States.
The White House is hosting President William Ruto of Kenya for a state dinner this week, an embrace that both countries urgently need.
A White House proposal to allow the billionaire Dan Gertler to sell off his assets in the Democratic Republic of Congo sparks a bipartisan rebuke.
With elections a week away, the political comeback of the former president has presented a major test for the country’s young democracy.
The U.S. ambassador said she was “very concerned” that Americans may have participated in what officials of the Democratic Republic of Congo called a failed coup attempt early Sunday.
When the director and crew of “Io Capitano” toured Senegal with their acclaimed movie, audiences responded with their life stories.
A deal to allow the Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler to cash out his mining positions in the Democratic Republic of Congo has enraged human rights activists and some government officials.
Ousman Sonko, who served under an autocratic president now in exile, was found guilty of multiple counts of intentional homicide, torture and false imprisonment against citizens of the West African country.
New research shows the “upside-down trees” originated in Madagascar and then caught a ride on ocean currents to reach mainland Africa and Australia.
The East African country is preparing to send hundreds of police officers as the first wave of a multinational force aimed at stabilizing the chaos-ridden Caribbean nation.
Witnesses and human rights groups claim the West African country’s military killed more than 220 people, including women and children, in February. It was neither a mistake nor a one-off, they say.
Memory Banda’s battle, which she has been waging since she was a teenager in a village in Malawi, started with a poignant question: “Why should this be happening to girls so young?”
Spurred by his anger at the African National Congress, Mr. Zuma formed his own political party and is gathering support among voters aggrieved by the failures of South Africa’s governing party.
The Central African country’s incumbent president and his prime minister both ran. Shortly after the prime minister claimed victory, the president was declared the winner.
The authorities in Senegal said the incident involving the aircraft, a Boeing 737 that was flying to Mali, was under investigation.
Three days after the collapse of a four-story building that was under construction, rescuers were still combing through some 3,000 tons of concrete rubble even as signs of life faded.
More than half a dozen nations have pledged personnel to a multinational effort to stabilize Haiti, where gangs have taken over much of the capital, setting off a major humanitarian crisis.
Although a resident confessed to setting the August 2023 blaze that killed 76 people in a dilapidated building, a report found that officials had ignored warning signs for years.
Nine months after a coup in Niger, Mohamed Bazoum, an ally of France and the U.S., remains locked in the presidential residence, cut off from contact with anyone but his doctor.
Until now, key players had blocked the establishment of a court that could hold them accountable for atrocities like murder, rape and torture.
A three-team race is deciding this year’s Premier League champion. The competition’s global reach means a significant portion of the world’s population is following along.
For years, activists and politicians have led discussions about whether disputed museum objects should go back to their countries of origin. At this year’s Biennale, artists are entering the fray.
The heavy rains that pounded East Africa for weeks, killing hundreds, have spilled into the Masai Mara, one of Africa’s greatest wildlife national reserves.
The West African country said it killed Abu Huzeifa, a commander in an Islamic State affiliate who was involved in a 2017 attack in neighboring Niger that killed American Green Berets and Nigerien forces.
A powerful paramilitary group has encircled El Fasher, the last remaining obstacle to domination of the sprawling Darfur region, raising alarm about mass killings if the city is taken.
The Central African nation’s May 6 election appears to offer voters a choice. But it’s been masterminded, analysts say, to rubber-stamp the rule of the incumbent, Mahamat Idriss Déby.
The country has been pummeled by heavy rains that have caused widespread flooding, part of a broader deluge that has devastated segments of East Africa.
For the tens of thousands of asylum seekers in Britain, a new law brings the possibility of deportation to central Africa closer. We asked how it was affecting them.
Downpours have killed at least 200 people and submerged homes and farms in Tanzania, Kenya and Burundi.
She helped people fleeing conflicts in Vietnam, China, Kosovo and elsewhere around the world, and established the Washington office of the International Rescue Committee.
The departure of U.S. military personnel in Chad and Niger comes as both countries are turning away from years of cooperation with the United States and forming partnerships with Russia.
Heavy rains also pounded other nations in East Africa, including Tanzania, where at least 155 people were killed, according to the country’s prime minister.
Britain’s Parliament passed contentious legislation to allow the deportation of asylum seekers to the African country, a political victory for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Part of a team flown in to fight the deadly virus in 1976, Dr. Breman also worked to stamp out tropical diseases like smallpox, malaria and Guinea worm.
“Funeral for Justice,” the musician from Niger’s album due next month, amps up the urgency in his work: “I want you to know how serious this is.”
A strange finish at the Beijing Half Marathon on Sunday led to an investigation and penalties.
The status of a $110 million air base in the desert remains unclear as the West African country deepens its ties with Russia.
Abshir Rageh had to sneak out from home to see bootleg Indian films and “Rambo” at a makeshift cinema. Now, he’s creating dramas that draw millions of online views in a country inching toward stability.
The ruling African National Congress party could lose its parliamentary majority for the first time since the fall of apartheid 30 years ago.
The company has told countries that it can supply only 18.8 million of the 29.6 million doses it was contracted to deliver this year.
She was believed to be the first Western scientist to study the animals in their natural habitat, but she struggled to overcome sexism in academia.
Bus stations. Traffic stops. Beaches. There’s no telling where you’ll find the next story in Accra, Ghana’s capital. Peace Adzo Medie shares some of her favorites.
Their capture set off a global campaign to “Bring Back Our Girls.” But many are still missing, and kidnappings in Nigeria have proliferated.
Trainers and equipment from Russia landed in the West African nation this week, putting the continued presence of 1,000 U.S. military personnel there in doubt.
Known for its annual fashion week, the region’s influence on style has been expanding, with the help of these designers.
Hasan Minhaj and Ramy Youssef joined hundreds of Muslims dressed to the nines at a morning prayer gathering in New York for the Eid al-Fitr holiday.
The 81-year-old former leader has been cleared to appear on the ballot as an opposition candidate in May’s parliamentary election. Unless the decision is reversed, he could become a kingmaker — or even president once again.
Wally Adeyemo, the highest-ranking member of the African diaspora in the Biden administration, emigrated from Nigeria to the United States as a child.
The towns and villages of the Atlas Mountains were building a thriving tourist economy. The devastation of the earthquake puts that in doubt.
Last week’s disaster raises questions that also emerged in Maui, Greece and other hard-hit places. Is the presence of tourists a hindrance? Or can visitors, and the revenue they bring in, help?
Anger is quietly growing against the government’s slow reaction and reluctance to accept foreign aid. But in a country where protest is a risk, perhaps the loudest response is action.
The observations from orbit suggest that a fault that had been inactive in modern times ruptured on Friday.
Only a few hundred people lived in the village of Tafeghaghte, Morocco, before the earthquake. As aid began to arrive, residents grappled with a staggering death toll and wondered how they would rebuild their lives.
El epicentro se registró a unos 80 kilómetros de Marrakech. Más de 2000 personas perdieron la vida, las casas fueron reducidas a escombros y los sobrevivientes quedaron aterrorizados.
Sightings of aerial luminous phenomena, often observed during earthquakes, are being shared online. Experts aren’t sure what causes them.
The waters swept away hundreds of homes as emergency officials raced to find survivors of the flooding caused by torrential weekend rains. Officials in one city described “catastrophic” devastation.
The government defended its response to the earthquake as robust, but some residents desperate for basic supplies say they feel abandoned.
The connection of the contractor to Ethiopia, a country that is a significant recipient of aid from the United States, is unusual.
King Mohammed VI waited hours before making his first public statement on the disaster, and has made few since. It was a government spokesman who pushed back on Monday against growing criticism on the pace of rescue efforts.
Miloud Ouakrim was going about his normal routine when a massive earthquake struck his small village, killing his two children. As rescue efforts continue across the country, some communities near the epicenter are still waiting for assistance.
In a critical period for search-and-rescue teams, the Moroccan government has given few updates about its response and the scope of the destruction.
More than 2,000 people were killed in the quake that hit Morocco on Friday night. Hardest hit was the province of Al Haouz, which is home to Amizmiz.
It remained unclear how quickly emergency teams would be able to reach the victims and prevent more deaths. Many of the areas affected by the quake are remote mountain villages that are not easily accessible.
The quake, centered in the mountains just outside of Marrakesh, was the strongest to hit that area in a century. “It didn’t last long, but felt like years,” said one woman who lives near the epicenter.
Here’s how to contribute to organizations that are aiding the rescue and recovery efforts in Morocco.
The deadliest quake in Morocco’s recent history was a 5.8-magnitude temblor that killed about 12,000 people in 1960.
The quake about 50 miles from Marrakesh turned residences into rubble and left the survivors terrified.
He was a powerful force as apartheid ended and bargaining over South Africa’s future began, emerging as a voice for tribal and ethnic rights, and powers for regional governments.
Some survivors have been detained by the police, while politicians have lashed out at the newcomers as scapegoats for intractable problems like crime, joblessness and a housing shortage.
The government declared three days of mourning after the attacks on a passenger ferry and a military camp. At least 49 civilians and 15 soldiers were killed.
Before Ali Bongo Ondimba was ousted in late August, he and his family had ruled over the oil-rich, central African state for more than half a century.
Hundreds of thousands fled a grisly civil conflict years ago to settle in Sudan, to the north. With war now raging there, they are streaming home to a country ill-prepared to take them back.
The tribunal confirmed the election of President Bola Tinubu, who has faced growing discontent amid unpopular economic policies and lingering allegations of irregularities in the election.
American officials have tap danced around a word that would prompt a cutoff of U.S. assistance to a valued African ally.
The African country has volunteered to put boots on the ground in the Caribbean nation by the end of the year. But the plan is facing pushback even as Haiti’s security crisis spirals out of control.
Music videos praising the military have proliferated since generals seized power, highlighting the army’s longstanding importance in Niger and popular dissatisfaction with civilian rule.
A government investigation about a Russian ship contradicts U.S. accusations that South Africa provided arms to fight Ukraine, President Cyril Ramaphosa said. But a government report won’t be released, he added.
The Israeli prime minister’s remarks revived a debate about the fate of thousands of asylum seekers after hundreds of opposing Eritrean groups faced off in Tel Aviv this weekend.
An extensive paper trail reveals that the authorities in Johannesburg were warned repeatedly about the dangers in the derelict building where 76 people died in a fire this week.
Tom Mandala, a Malawi native, jumped from the fifth floor as a blaze raged in a Johannesburg residential building. Many other residents were also from Malawi.
The man was one of several French-Moroccan dual citizens vacationing in northern Morocco when their water scooters, low on fuel, drifted across the maritime border and the coast guard opened fire.
Families on Friday were trying to identify relatives caught in the blaze, a day after it consumed a sprawling settlement in one of the deadliest residential fires in South African history.
The blaze, one of the worst residential ones in South Africa’s history, occurred in a building that officials and locals say had become an overcrowded death trap for the hundreds who lived there.
Hailed as a climate visionary, Gabon’s president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, was once welcomed to Buckingham Palace but was blindsided by this week’s coup.
Johannesburg, with a severe shortage of affordable housing, has hundreds of illegally occupied derelict buildings that officials and housing advocates say have become firetraps.
A visit and imagery of the five-story building show that it had a litany of major safety issues that made it vulnerable to a deadly fire.
The blaze struck an abandoned building that had become a crowded squatter settlement. The authorities were investigating the cause.
The early-morning blaze tore through a five-story building that had become a sprawling informal settlement, officials said. The cause was not yet known.
A 2014 law makes such unions illegal in the country. Anyone found guilty of taking part can also face up to 10 years in prison.
The televised announcement came hours after the Central African nation’s president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, was re-elected for a third term.
Prosecutors used the death penalty provision of a recent law to charge a 20-year-old man with having sexual intercourse with a 41-year-old man with a disability.
Mathieu Belezi has been fascinated by the history of colonial Algeria for years. Acclaim finally came with his latest book, a sign of changing times.
The main regional bloc in southern Africa and the African Union declined to rubber stamp the elections and cast doubt on a vote that led to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s re-election.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa won another five-year term, but did so by intimidating voters and manipulating the campaign process, the opposition says.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner paramilitary group, had visited the Central African Republic in the days before his jet crashed, a top adviser to the country’s president said.
A reptile found in Madagascar is impossible to tell apart from tree bark by day. For decades, scientists had mixed it up with a relative.
Other voters in Zimbabwe had to return the next day to vote for president, and the police raided election observers. The main candidates both predicted victory.
Of South Asian descent, he was discriminated against as “colored” in South Africa, but he flourished in London as a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet.
Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Indonesia and Egypt are among the potential candidates to expand the five-nation bloc, many of them seeking stronger ties with non-Western powers. Iran is also interested.
The country needs a free and fair election to escape Western sanctions. But familiar concerns about government repression and ballot rigging are dogging the vote.
Leaders of Brazil, India, China and South Africa addressed other topics, but Russia’s president, unable to attend in person because he is wanted for war crimes, put the war in Ukraine at center stage in the meeting.
Nurses, doctors and workers of all kinds are seeking to escape the country’s economic turmoil, an issue that has become a central theme in the election scheduled for Wednesday.
After a plane arrived from Egypt bearing cash, weapons and what looked like gold bars, Zambia arrested 12 people. Egyptian reporters covering the case were briefly detained.
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will consider at their summit this week whether to admit more countries to their bloc. China wants to expand it, to challenge the West, but the members’ conflicting interests may get in the way.
A Human Rights Watch report says the guards regularly fire on African migrants trying to enter the kingdom from Yemen and have killed hundreds in a 15-month period.
In an interview with The New York Times, a civilian leader of the junta sounded a conciliatory tone. He also said Niger would not summon the Kremlin-backed Wager Group.
President Mohamed Bazoum had grown alarmed at military takeovers sweeping across Niger’s neighbors. Then his own soldiers came for him. Weeks later, he remains imprisoned in his home.
The vessel carrying mostly Senegalese nationals was found off the coast of the West African archipelago. Thirty-eight people survived.
The military takeover could force the Pentagon to withdraw hundreds of American troops and close drone bases in the West African country.
“There was a feeling that we cannot let this fail,” Koyo Kouoh said of taking the top job at Zeitz MOCAA. She wants to make it relevant to the Pan-African world and beyond.
Coup leaders also signaled they would be open to dialogue with West African nations, the first sign of a thaw after weeks of rising tensions.
Patrol vessels were pursuing a fishing boat loaded with migrants bound for Spain when it struck rocks off a beach in Senegal’s capital, locals say, leaving at least 16 people dead.
Less than a year after the war in the country’s northern Tigray region ended, Ethiopia’s military is battling an ethnic militia in the neighboring Amhara region in a part of Africa already ravaged by conflict.
The authorities said Mr. Zuma, the former president, was a beneficiary of a new program to relieve crowding. His political opponents called the timing suspicious.
Niger’s new military leaders named a new government hours before West Africa’s heads of state were scheduled to decide on their response to the coup.
Four Nigerian stowaways hopped on a cargo ship not knowing where it was going, but hoping to find a place where they could claw out of poverty.
Two albums in the early 1970s went largely unnoticed in the United States, but not overseas. Then came the 2012 documentary “Searching for Sugar Man.”
An ongoing coup in Niger could shape the future of a West African regional bloc and the presidency of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the newly elected leader of Nigeria.
One of Niger’s coup leaders rejected a U.S. diplomat’s request to release the country’s democratically elected president and bring back constitutional order.
A bloc of other West African nations gave the military junta a deadline to reinstate the ousted president. That limit is about to run out.
The vehicle overturned at a curve on its way to a weekly town market southeast of Marrakesh, officials said.
In a country hobbled by economic crisis, families often turn to private education centers instead of schools to seek better futures for their children, sometimes even sacrificing food to pay for lessons.
As a longtime power broker he helped make his West African country an economic dynamo, but in office he fomented ethnic divisions and cracked down on dissent.
A recent military takeover in Niger has thrown into uncertainty the future of France’s presence in West and Central Africa, raising doubts about the future of U.S. military involvement there, too.
President Mohamed Bazoum has been detained by his own guards since July 26. Some of Niger’s neighbors have threatened military action against the coup leaders if democracy is not restored.
Amid an unpredictable military coup, neighboring countries have threatened to go to war — some to scuttle the coup, and others to ensure its success.
Several military officials who took power from the president in Niger last week met with the leaders of Mali, where the Kremlin-backed Wagner mercenary group has deployed about 1,500 troops.
Right-wing commenters claim that an old anti-apartheid chant is a call to anti-white violence, but historians and the left-wing politician who embraces it say it should not be taken literally.
Kenya has offered to lead a police force to help restore order to Haiti, where gangs that control vast parts of the country’s capital have fomented violence.
Ousmane Sonko, a fiery figure with a loyal youth following, was charged with fomenting insurrection, and his party dissolved.
As France prepared to evacuate its citizens, Burkina Faso and Mali said they would take any military operation by other West African nations to reinstate the president as a “declaration of war.”
A demand for a restoration of democracy echoed calls by the United States and France, major security allies of Niger.
This past week’s military takeover in Niger completed a domino chain of countries ruled by leaders who seized power by force, fueling instability and presenting a conundrum for the United States.
Gen. Omar Tchiani spoke on state television as the head of a transitional leadership in the West African country, two days after his troops detained the elected president.
At a summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, President Vladimir V. Putin offered free grain as he sought to shore up ties with the continent. But lower-than-hoped-for attendance among African leaders hinted at tempering support.
Military mutineers said that they had ousted the country’s elected leader. The move shakes a pillar of democracy in West Africa.
Firefighters have scrambled to extinguish blazes in at least 10 countries as a heat wave has swept the Mediterranean region. Here’s what to know.
The army chief declared his support for a group of mutineers that seized power on Wednesday. President Mohamed Bazoum and his allies insisted the coup could be reversed.
Uganda has been under authoritarian rule for decades. Wine has doggedly challenged its leader, and this documentary shows the price he’s paid.
President Mohamed Bazoum was one of the West’s most reliable partners in a volatile region threatened by militant extremists and prone to coups.
A new study offers clues to the mysteries of kimberlite eruptions, the source of most of the diamonds mined on Earth today.
As President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia prepares to host African leaders at a summit, a collapsed grain deal and the uncertain fate of Wagner mercenaries have cast a shadow.
If the claim is confirmed, Niger would be the latest West African country to face a coup attempt in the past two years. The president’s fate was unclear.
Algeria’s government said that 10 of the dead were soldiers who were trying to rescue people from the fires, which have raged for days in a forested coastal region.
In his first two months in office, President Bola Tinubu has ripped the Band-Aid off Nigeria’s ailing economy. Time will tell if it can heal, but for now, Nigerians are feeling the pain.
Morocco is the first North African and majority Arab nation to qualify for the Women’s World Cup. It’s hoping to pick up the baton its men’s team carried in Qatar.
Antigovernment protests over price hikes and new taxes have left at least 31 people dead in recent weeks, prompting the country’s news outlets to join together to issue a dire warning.
Tunisia has pushed African migrants to scorching no-man’s lands along its borders with little food and water. Under a deal with the European Union, Tunisia agreed to tighten border controls in exchange for aid.
In 1968, Father Doran, who had been in Nigeria as an educator, became the linchpin of one of the largest civilian humanitarian efforts in history.
Nelson Mandela is revered worldwide and celebrated on July 18, his birthday. But at home, a younger generation is disillusioned with the country, his party and the anti-apartheid leader, too.
After the deadliest shipwreck in years in the Mediterranean, E.U. officials will pay Tunisia to prevent migrants from setting to sea.
As war rages in Sudan, the United Nations said the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and its allies were responsible for killing at least 87 people in the western region of Darfur.
A powerful new European weather orbiter’s cameras capture lightning in near real-time at day or night across more than 80 percent of the world’s surface.
A light dusting of snow coated many parts of Johannesburg on Monday, driving children and adults to nearby parks and playgrounds.
Manuel Chang, the former finance minister of Mozambique, is at the center of a scandal that roped in American investors.
Testimonies sent to the International Criminal Court detail accusations of torture and abuse committed against hundreds of victims before and after the elections in 2021.
Fierce fighting has erupted in the city of Omdurman, across the Nile from the capital, Khartoum, in a desperate battle to control supply routes.
The country’s maritime rescue authority said it had rescued a migrant boat with 86 people aboard in the Atlantic, after an aid group raised concerns about vessels that had departed from Senegal.
Even after museums decide to return stolen artifacts to their countries of origin, tariffs and red tape can prolong the process.
Nomcebo Zikode, the South African singer of the pandemic hit “Jerusalema” that inspired a global dance challenge, wrote the chorus while battling her own depression.
A visit to a remote conservation park reveals the long-term impact on villagers of a crusade by the novelist Delia Owens and her husband to protect animals from poachers.
A new documentary tells how a Ugandan filmmaker and an American producer have reshaped African cinema.
A cylinder of a type of gas often linked to illegal mining was found in a shack at an encampment near the city of Boksburg, an emergency services official said.
Macky Sall had considered seeking a third term in the West African country despite a constitutional limit of two.
The Netherlands formally abolished slavery in its colonies in 1863, but has only recently begun to actively acknowledge its participation in the practice.
The parties reached an interim agreement to renew their longstanding relationship, but say they’re still working out the details. It is unclear how much it will benefit Botswana, the world’s second largest diamond producer.
In his first interview since his release from prison, the hotelier-turned-dissident spoke about how he was duped by a Rwandan government informant, and his plans to disregard an agreement to stay quiet.
The international vaccine aid group agreed to provide developing countries with a new shot to prevent a global resurgence of the paralyzing virus.
The mercenary group is so deeply enmeshed in the Central African Republic and several other nations that it can’t be easily replaced, experts say.
Botswana, in southern Africa, has partnered with the London-based diamond giant De Beers for decades. Many in the country are pushing to get a better deal from the industry.
A three-judge court of appeals said the African country was not a safe country for migrants seeking asylum. The government is now expected to appeal to the Supreme Court.
The small West African nation, one of the world’s poorest, had gained attention for an education initiative by President Julius Maada Bio that sent many more children to school.
A study found that loan officers in Uganda, where information is scarce, were more likely to offer credit to heavier-looking people.
Supporters and party officials from the All Peoples’ Congress were sifting through polling data from the presidential vote when the military surrounded party headquarters.
In Saturday’s vote, President Julius Maada Bio is seeking a second five-year term to pursue an ambitious if unfulfilled education initiative, while the country is facing a crippling economic crisis.
The medina, the ancient neighborhood where this Moroccan city was born, offers sensory stimulation at every turn.
It was one of the worst terrorist acts to hit the nation in decades, as militants burned down dormitories with students still inside and hacked others to death.
The authorities attribute the attack, one of the deadliest in years, to the Allied Democratic Forces, an extremist group based in neighboring Congo.
Thanasis Pagoulatos led the family business, Khartoum’s oldest inn, through decades of tumult. Sudan’s latest breakdown proved too much.
The United Nations blamed Sudanese paramilitaries for the death of the governor of West Darfur, Khamis Abdullah Abakar. Sudan’s war has destabilized a fragile western region devastated by genocide in the early 2000s.
Dozens of members rescued from a church whose pastor is accused of telling followers to starve themselves appeared in court. A judge sent them to rehab rather than jail to await another hearing.
The disaster is the deadliest such episode off the country’s shores since the 2015 migrant crisis, and there were fears that the toll would rise. The cause was not immediately clear.
The boat capsized on the Niger River at night, when many passengers were returning from a wedding party.
South Africa is accused of helping supply Russia with weapons for the Ukraine war, a charge that South Africa denies.
The attack was attributed to a group that the United Nations says has killed hundreds of civilians in the region and forced thousands to flee.
After several protesters were killed by live ammunition this month in Senegal, many in the usually stable West African nation wonder what comes next.
A previously unexploded mortar shell went off as children were playing around it in a city in southern Somalia.
American officials say they uncovered a countrywide scheme to divert food aid to “military units,” in a country where 20 million people rely on donated relief.
The decision to fund medications to treat H.I.V.-AIDS patients in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean flew in the face of expert advice. But the U.S. did it anyway.
Judges at a special U.N. tribunal said they would create a procedure to allow them to hear evidence in the case against Félicien Kabuga, who has dementia, without the possibility of a conviction.
Hundreds have been killed in the western Darfur region since the nationwide conflict in Sudan began, raising fears of protracted warfare in an area already torn by decades of genocidal violence.
Tropical reefs, safaris, the pyramids: L.G.B.T.Q. travel companies deliver dream vacations, even to places where being out and proud could land you in prison.
A playwright, novelist and poet, she was a leading African writer who explored the complexities faced by modern women living in the shadow of colonialism.
Homo naledi, despite having tiny brains, may have lit fires and decorated walls around the graves of their dead, according to controversial new research.
Restitution efforts were underway, fueled by news that a museum was being planned in Nigeria to house the treasures. Then a surprising announcement sowed uncertainty.
It is common for people in this West African desert nation to divorce many times. And when they do, the women celebrate.
Demonstrators had battled with the police to protest a two-year prison sentence given to a leading opposition figure.
Adamantly progressive, openly gay and politically fearless, he cast a sharp eye on the country’s post-apartheid politics and culture.
The measures came a day after Sudan’s military pulled out of peace talks in the Saudi city of Jeddah that aimed to stop the fighting.
A case involving a rape charge against Ousmane Sonko has monopolized the country’s political life and raised concerns over the prosecution of political opponents.
The move deals a blow to efforts to end the war and deliver humanitarian aid to millions of people nationwide.
Binyavanga Wainaina attacked insulting clichés in the essay, “How to Write About Africa,” in 2005. In a posthumous collection of the same name, his range as a writer is on display.
President Yoweri Museveni dismissed widespread criticism of the anti-gay measure, which calls for life imprisonment for anyone convicted of homosexuality.
Dozens of Sudanese artists and curators have fled their studios and galleries in the capital, jeopardizing thousands of artworks and imperiling an art scene central to the 2019 revolution.
Accused of having a direct hand in the killing of hundreds of Tutsis, Fulgence Kayishema was arrested in South Africa, where he hid as an asylum seeker.
Almost all cervical cancer deaths now occur in developing countries. Tanzania is trying to inoculate girls against the virus that causes the disease — nearly 20 years after rich countries began offering the shot.
Researchers just discovered that the spiny mouse was concealing bony plates beneath the skin over its tail.
A new genetic analysis of 290 people suggests that humans emerged at various times and places in Africa.
Hundreds were drawn to a remote wilderness in southeastern Kenya by the End Times preaching of pastor Paul Mackenzie. Relatives and ex-members tried to intervene, but some did not want to be rescued.
War in the northeast African nation has forced pregnant women to drive “through hell” to reach the dwindling number of hospitals and clinics, or turn to overworked midwives to give birth at home.
As an extinction crisis wiped out species at the end of the Permian Period, a predatory species emerged that dominated Southern Africa’s domain.
Don’t be fooled by its generic title. Lesley Lokko’s “Laboratory of the Future” is the most ambitious and pointedly political Venice Architecture Biennale in years.
The truce is the first to be signed by both sides. It followed weeks of talks in Saudi Arabia between representatives of the two rival generals vying for power in the northeast African nation.
The animals had been extinct for more than 70 years in the country, which has just begun a program that brought 20 cheetahs from Africa to a wildlife sanctuary.
Officials destroyed Sudanese passports on security grounds as they evacuated the Khartoum embassy. Now the passport owners are trapped in a war zone.
As American-led peace efforts flounder, experts warn that Sudan risks spiraling into a state of anarchy akin to its most chaotic neighbors.
Talking with Touria El Glaoui, its founder, about making a real difference in the careers of African artists.
South Africa’s largest city is now on its sixth different mayor in 22 months. While politicians argue over power, residents struggle with dry taps, heaps of garbage and dilapidated buildings.
The war in Sudan has unleashed a new wave of violence in the western region of Darfur, sending tens of thousands into neighboring Chad, where a new humanitarian crisis is looming.
Archaeologists offer a new explanation for one of the century’s grislier finds, “a carefully gathered collection of hands” in a 3,500-year-old temple.
The massacre of nine workers in the Central African Republic and other recent attacks raise questions about China’s ability to protect its citizens overseas.
Officials hope the agreement will allow the delivery of lifesaving aid and ease conditions for the millions of Sudanese suffering after nearly four weeks of fighting between rival generals.
The American ambassador to South Africa told reporters that Washington is confident a Russian ship picked up a load of weapons and ammunition near Cape Town in December.
Sudan’s capital city has become an arena for a battle between two generals vying for power, while residents brave shelling, looting and dwindling supplies of food, water, medicine and electricity.
Days after the flooding began, survivors are still pulling victims from the rubble and mud, and thousands have been left homeless. More rain is likely in the coming days.
American officials say they hope representatives of two rival Sudanese generals will agree to an enduring cease-fire and to allow humanitarian aid into the country.
As feuding generals turned the Sudanese capital into a war zone, two university students navigated a battered Toyota through the chaos to rescue dozens of desperate people.
The move could increase tensions between South Africa and the United States as it moves to isolate Moscow over the war in Ukraine.
Critics say the Biden administration and its partners were naïve about the intentions of two rival generals and failed to empower civilian leaders.
Many areas across East Africa have in recent years experienced both severe droughts and heavy rainfalls that killed many and damaged property and crops.
The battle has sent 100,000 refugees fleeing across borders. Now, neighboring South Sudan says both sides have agreed to name representatives to peace talks, but neither side has publicly confirmed.
Port Sudan, on the Red Sea, has been overwhelmed by people fleeing the violence and scrambling to join an evacuation to Saudi Arabia.
The medical professionals who remain face meager supplies and harrowing conditions, even setting up field hospitals in living rooms amid the fighting.
As the clashes entered the 14th day, foreign powers continued evacuating their nationals as they warned of escalating violence in the coming days.
In parts of Khartoum that have been taken over by a feared paramilitary force, the civilians who have not fled endure an uneasy coexistence with fighters who are battling the regular army.
The accident is the latest in a series of recent deadly accidents involving migrants trying to reach Europe.
After speculation that Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who had been serving a prison sentence, had been freed, the army said that he was being held in a military hospital but provided no evidence.
As the International Criminal Court seeks to arrest Vladimir Putin, South Africa objects to its “unfair treatment” of some countries, but sends mixed signals about withdrawing.
After years of shifts, The Africa Center has the plans and space to grow. Can it raise the funds to carry out its ambitions?
Washington had hoped to work with other countries during the pause to help permanently end the fighting. Instead, the warring generals violated it just hours after it began.
Taking advantage of its turn as president of the Security Council, Moscow sent Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov to preside over a session on peace and diplomacy.
The clashes have killed more than 400 people and injured thousands more. Those displaced are streaming into nations such as Chad, Egypt and South Sudan, adding to a refugee crisis in the region.
Many of the victims are believed to have been members of a church led by a pastor who is being investigated on allegations that he directed his congregants to starve themselves to death.
A prosecutor opened an investigation into the killing of about 60 people by men in uniforms of the national military. Days earlier, the authorities said they would investigate the killing of seven boys.
With hopes fading that two warring generals will end their battle anytime soon, diplomats and other foreigners began heading for Sudan’s doors.
Wagner has offered powerful weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, to R.S.F. paramilitaries, American officials said.
An Australian, he assisted South African dissidents like the journalist Donald Woods, whose story was told in the movie “Cry Freedom.”
Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said his troops would facilitate the evacuation of American, British, Chinese and French diplomats and citizens. But the U.S. Embassy in Sudan said it was “not currently safe to undertake a U.S. government-coordinated evacuation of private U.S. citizens.”
Even before its two leading generals went to war last week, “everyone wanted a chunk of Sudan,” an expert said of the strategically located country rich in natural resources.
A Times analysis of satellite imagery shows how a displaced persons camp lost a key source of food and supplies amid a fight for control of the country.
Gunfights in the capital, Khartoum, continued for a seventh day, despite calls for a pause as the Muslim-majority nation marked the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
The bill, passed last month, calls for life in prison for anyone engaging in same-sex relations. President Yoweri Museveni congratulated lawmakers for their “strong stand” against L.G.B.T.Q. people.
Fierce fighting has trapped people in the capital, Khartoum, and the United States says it is “conducting prudent planning” to get diplomatic staff members out.
The transfer was the sixth of a cleared prisoner in six months in a Biden administration surge to reduce the prison population.
With two generals vying for power, residents in the capital, Khartoum, said the violence had destroyed hospitals, airfields and homes, and left civilians caught in the crossfire.
The army and the paramilitary group it is battling agreed to a 24-hour cease-fire. But many residents were unsure whether the truce was solid enough to safely flee.
As fighting persists in Khartoum, including at its main airport, nations have said they cannot repatriate their citizens or have no immediate plans to do so.
What led the two generals, recently allies, to turn their forces on each other — devastating a country of 45 million people?
Terrified to step outside because of firefights and bands of armed men in the streets, residents remain stuck in their homes with dwindling supplies of food, water and medicine.
The violence against foreign officials, who are usually not targeted, highlighted how much the security situation has worsened in Khartoum in recent days.
The unit traces its origins from the notorious Janjaweed militias, which in the 2000s helped Sudan’s Army crush a rebellion in the western region of Darfur.
Civilians are caught in the cross-fire, and two rival generals vying for power made it clear their forces had no intention of standing down.
Khartoum residents were trapped at home without electricity or water as the country’s two top generals battled for a third day to control the East African nation.
Uninterested in the extreme altitudes of Kilimanjaro, a writer opted instead to explore the region’s vast calderas, abundant wildlife and rare forms of lava.
The civilian death toll is climbing and concern over a broader conflict is growing as rival generals vie for control of Africa’s third-largest country.
Fighting in the country has been far more frequent in the east, west and south instead of its capital, Khartoum.
The strategically important country in northeastern Africa has been consumed by turmoil after overthrowing a dictator in 2019, with plans for a civilian-led democracy now in shambles.
A former camel trader who led a militia accused of genocidal violence in Darfur, Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan, widely known as Hemeti, leads the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary unit.
Little known before 2019, he rose to power in the aftermath of the military-led coup that ousted Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the longtime leader who was deposed after popular uprisings.
Weeks of mounting tensions between rival military leaders have turned violent, with reports of battles at the airport, the presidential palace and many other parts of Khartoum.
Hamissi Mamba, a refugee from Burundi, knew little of American culture when he arrived eight years ago and learned English watching the “Peppa Pig” cartoon. But he opened his dream restaurant, and the accolades have rolled in.
There was optimism at the spring meetings of the I.M.F. and World Bank that China will make concessions over restructuring its loans.
Pro-Russian content presenting a distorted version of the war in Ukraine and promoting Russia’s interests in Africa is gaining an audience on the continent.
The pilot made an emergency landing after feeling a Cape Cobra slither under his shirt while flying across South Africa. “I had a moment of stunned silence,” he said.
The businessmen Atul and Rajesh Gupta were implicated in the looting of state funds under President Jacob Zuma. They fled to the United Arab Emirates about five years ago.
The deadline is approaching for the generals who took power in a military coup in Sudan to turn over their authority to a civilian government. The mood in the capital, Khartoum, is anxious.
The European Union relies heavily on Tunisia to stem migration, giving its increasingly authoritarian president leverage in negotiations with the bloc.
Born in Ethiopia, she seemed headed for a career as a concert pianist before she chose a monastic life. Her intricate piano recordings gained a cult following.
Paul Rusesabagina, depicted in the 2004 film about genocide in his country, was reunited with his family last week. It took years of pressure to get him out of Rwanda, where he was convicted on terrorism charges.
Dan Gertler, an Israeli billionaire, is pressing President Biden to remove sanctions that were imposed on him for bribe-fueled transactions in the impoverished African country.
The International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for President Vladimir V. Putin could thrust his allies into domestic and foreign legal disputes, experts say.
Mr. Pistorius, who has maintained that the killing was an accident and that he is remorseful, has served about half of his 15-year sentence.
Scholars say it is important to hold the powerful legally accountable, but there are likely to be charges — well-founded or not — that prosecutors have political motives.
He also supported reparations for descendants of enslaved Americans and sanctuary for Haitian refugees. But he lived for two decades in self-imposed exile.
The vice president leaned into her heritage during a three-nation trip to Africa to strengthen U.S. relations on the continent.
His release ended more than two and a half years of captivity, during which he was tried on terrorism charges and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
While live bees can be used as a deterrent to keep elephants away from farms, a new technology fills in for cases where a buzz without the sting is preferable.
In a weeklong trip to Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia, the vice president will face a balancing act as she tries to foster a collaborative U.S. relationship.
Paul Rusesabagina, a critic of Rwanda’s president, was tricked into entering the country, then sentenced to 25 years after what his supporters called a show trial.
Paul Rusesabagina, whose story inspired a Hollywood movie, was kidnapped by the Rwandan government and jailed. In a deal brokered by the U.S., he is to be set free.
As terrorists move south through the Sahel, the Pentagon’s annual Flintlock exercise reinforced the rule of law in a region roiled by coups.
The legislation, which now goes to the president, also calls for life in prison for anyone engaging in gay sex. Policies to stifle L.G.B.T.Q. rights have been on the rise in several African nations.
Jeffery Woodke, an aid worker abducted in Niger by militants, was released after more than six years in captivity. A second hostage was also released: Olivier Dubois, a French journalist who disappeared in April 2021.
At least half of the deaths were children under the age of 5, according to the report by health researchers, the United Nations and the Somali government.
I traveled to Morocco with a group-travel company that promises to build “meaningful friendships” among its youngish clientele.
The U.S. is reprising its playbook in Ukraine, where it has used classified information to expose plans by Russia. Next target: Chad.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog said that 2.5 tons of natural uranium concentrate was unaccounted for, but that the ore itself posed little radiation hazard.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken walked a careful line during a visit to Ethiopia as the Biden administration reassesses relations with the prime minister, Abiy Ahmed.
The record-breaking storm barreled across southeastern Africa into landlocked Malawi, where rescue workers searched for survivors as rain kept falling.
A multibillion-dollar oil drilling and pipeline project is displacing thousands of people in Uganda and Tanzania, and ravaging pristine habitats. Environmentalists are fighting to stop it, but the governments are all in.
A storm that has broken records for its longevity — now 35 days — swept inland from the southeastern coast of Africa and is causing massive flooding and displacement.
A singer and son of a music legend is trying to once again make the Carnival celebration a highlight of the year — and to make it a year-round force for positive change in Angola.
Four years after a popular uprising fueled hopes for change and real democracy, the country’s government is using vaguely defined statutes to round up hundreds.
Couto’s language is enriched by his country’s idioms, voices — and possibilities. “We are still in the process of creating one nation,” he said, made of “different languages, different beliefs.”
After $580,000 was stolen from a sofa of President Cyril Ramaphosa, his head of security skirted regulations, but the president did not, according to a preliminary report by a corruption watchdog.
The government moved elections scheduled for Saturday back by a week, saying it needed more time to reset digital voting machines at the center of fraud accusations.
The storm, which has killed 21 people already, has hit several countries in southeastern Africa and is on track to last longer than the record of 31 days.
Almaz Negash lives in California, but never forgot her native Eritrea. Now she heads a group that brings together dispersed Africans, philanthropists, entrepreneurs and business leaders.
As African migrants are swept up in a widening crackdown, critics say President Kais Saied is openly mining a deep vein of discrimination and prejudice against dark-skinned people in Tunisia.
President Emmanuel Macron has embarked on a four-country visit as he slashes the French military presence and says colonial-era habits and attitudes must die.
Bola Tinubu, declared the winner on Wednesday in the presidential election, has boasted of making the careers of major politicians. Now he has to deliver for a divided country facing multiple emergencies.
Peter Obi was until recently a secondary player in Nigerian politics. By switching parties and appealing to the digitally savvy, he overturned the old order.
Eritrean troops have been accused of war crimes in the northern Tigray region just weeks before a peace agreement was signed last year.
Despite scandal and controversy, David Mabuza remained in office for five years, only leaving once he had lost power within the governing African National Congress party.
Mr. Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos and the ruling party candidate, campaigned using the slogan “It’s my turn.” He promised to address widespread insecurity and economic woes, but he faced concerns about his fitness for office.
Two parties say the presidential vote in Africa’s biggest democracy was marred by fraud and violence, and they called for the head of the election commission to step down.
A campaign in the Horn of Africa is now the most active element in the “forever wars” the United States has waged since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
In Nigeria’s presidential election on Saturday, voters are desperate to elect a leader who can unleash their youthful country’s potential and chart a new course after years of dashed hopes.
For years, Nigerian politicians have been accused of buying votes. The lawmaker, the police say, was caught with dollar bills and a list of possible recipients.
Nigerian voters say that insecurity is the most important issue in this week’s presidential election. One man who was kidnapped said, “You can only survive on your own in Nigeria.”
Nigeria’s government changed the currency design before the presidential election, causing shortages and wreaking social havoc.
Mr. Atsu, a Ghanaian national who played for the Turkish club Hatayspor, had been among the thousands of people missing. He was 31.
The race is wide open in the presidential election in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and a struggling economic powerhouse. Youth looking to evict the old guard are cheering on Peter Obi, a surprise third-party candidate.
South Africa starts 11 days of joint naval drills with Russia and China on Friday, despite criticism from American, European and even some South African officials that it looks like an endorsement of Russia’s Ukraine war.
White South Africans control a vast majority of the country’s wine industry. But it’s growing increasingly possible to support Black winemakers and owners.
The presidential election this month in Africa’s most populous country is completely unpredictable. An unexpected third candidate with a huge youth following may upend decades of traditional politics.
Western museums are major tourist attractions, drawing travelers from around the world. But what responsibility do we bear as spectators for patronizing institutions that display what critics say are stolen works?
The rapper, whose legal name was Kiernan Forbes, was one of the most formidable songwriters in South African hip-hop. He and another man were killed outside a restaurant on Friday.
President Cyril Ramaphosa, facing rising public wrath, on Thursday declared a “state of disaster” and pledged to end an energy crisis that threatens economic and political stability.
With sculptures that blend evolutionary history and science fiction, Wangechi Mutu draws on her bicontinental life for an ambitious New Museum survey.
Just hours before Christian Atsu was trapped, he had scored the winning goal for the Turkish soccer club Hatayspor.
Mali said it and Russia will seek to strengthen security and defense ties, in a country where Russia already provides helicopters and mercenaries.
The former Pakistani general and ruler, a central player in post-9/11 global tensions, ultimately lost his hold on the Pakistani public, and even on his own military establishment.
In an in-flight news conference after six days in the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, Francis also denounced conservative critics who he said had “instrumentalized” the death of Benedict XVI.
A Kenyan nonprofit is restoring iconic public libraries, leaving behind a segregated past and turning them into inclusive spaces.
Bilal al-Sudani’s financing of the ISIS branch in Afghanistan that killed 13 U.S. troops in 2021 elevated him on U.S. kill-or-capture lists.
The soaring hopes at South Sudan’s creation in 2011 have been cruelly dashed. Pope Francis arrives there with other religious leaders on Friday to highlight its plight.
Francis began the second day of his visit to the continent with a direct appeal to the warring groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo to put down their weapons and forgive one another.
On a walking safari in Zambia, a writer traded animal locator apps and spine-jostling game drives for a slow and sensuous experience in which the lore and nuances of the landscape came to the fore.
The first pope to visit Africa in almost four decades began in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the struggles of daily life are the very problems Francis has sought to highlight.
The Central African country is wracked by war, poverty and environmental plunder — and it may be the future of the Catholic Church.
The pope is planning to spend three days in the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the most populous and most Catholic nations in Africa. While it has extensive natural riches, its people have long been buffeted by conflict and exploitation.
The move came as part of cost-cutting measures under which the news service is also ending its radio programming in 10 other languages, including Persian, Chinese and Hindi.
Thulani Maseko, who had pushed for years to end Africa’s last absolute monarchy, in Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, was killed in front of his wife and two young children.
The chef Roze Traore has spent years building a name for himself in New York, but for his new project, he’s tapping his family ties to West Africa.
Officials said the man helped facilitate a network of ISIS affiliates around the world.
The acclaimed Nigerian British writer is resonating with American readers in a moment of national crisis. “Maybe nations go through a time when they just can’t hear certain kinds of voices,” he said.
The West African country had demanded that French troops leave. France confirmed they would be out in a month.
She experienced the inequities of the job firsthand in South Africa and helped build national and international unions to address them.
Tundu Lissu, a former presidential candidate, left in 2020 after he was harassed on the campaign trail. He flew home after the country’s leader lifted a ban on political rallies.
Malawi, in southern African, had all but eradicated cholera, recording only two cases in 2021. But more than 900 people died of it over the past 11 months, and the government is scrambling to contain its spread.
More than 60 people were abducted a week ago while searching for food in an area blockaded by insurgents. On Friday, the military said the captives had been released.
He won the World Boxing Association title in 1983, became a symbol of racial comity and showed a surprising gentleness in public.
Mariam Ouédraogo is the first female African journalist to win the world’s top prize for war correspondents, but covering the sexual violence in Burkina Faso has given her PTSD.
The 10-day naval exercises are a show of diplomatic independence for South Africa, which is part of an alliance with Brazil, Russia, India and China — known as BRICS.
Sub-Saharan Africa has made steady progress in delivering lifesaving medication to adults, but young patients are harder to reach and 100,000 are dying of AIDS each year
The women were abducted while searching for food in a region that has been under a blockade by extremist groups for nearly a year.
The 24 defendants had been charged with misdemeanors over their work with migrants, but they still face more serious charges.
The virus spread to nine districts nationwide, infecting hundreds and killing dozens. Seven health workers were among those who died.
General Muhoozi Kainerugaba has been positioning himself as Uganda’s next leader. But his provocative tweets have unnerved Ugandans and put his father in a bind.
The president of the West African country announced three days of national mourning for the victims.
Clubs in Khayelitsha, the nation’s second largest township, are attracting Black professionals with entertainment that “we love, we want.”
Pape Alé Niang, an investigative reporter, was arrested on charges of disclosing confidential government information. Journalists and rights defenders say he was just doing his job.
Ivory Coast had said the 49 soldiers were in Mali to provide security for a United Nations peacekeeping mission, but Mali had accused them of being mercenaries.
Edwin Chiloba’s body was dumped on the roadside by a moving vehicle in the country’s west. Police have arrested his friend and are pursuing two others in the case.
Eugenia Kargbo remembers when Sierra Leone’s capital was greener and cooler, and is now trying to help the city combat rising temperatures.
A terrorist group, Al Shabab, claimed responsibility for the attacks, which came as the militants lose control of towns and villages to a government offensive.
A video showing dozens of vehicles moving in on a pair of big cats in a Kenyan game reserve highlights how “aggressive tourism” can put endangered animals at even greater risk.
The capital of Senegal has become a fashion center. But photographing stylish people going about their day isn’t as easy as clicking a button.
Moscow blocks most shipments from Ukraine, one of the world’s largest wheat producers, and its attacks on the country’s energy grid also disrupt the flow of food.
Ivory Coast said its soldiers were in Mali to provide security for the United Nations peacekeeping mission. But Mali accused them of seeking to undermine its own security.
The country has effectively closed down one of the last places in Algeria for freewheeling political debate, which carried on even as the military-backed regime that leads the country grew increasingly authoritarian.
In a newly reissued photo book from 1967, Ernest Cole surveys the ever-present atrocities of European oppression.
Two youths who tried to use a pool at a resort on Christmas Day said they were told it was for “white people only.” The violent encounter led to a charge of attempted murder and a call by the president to battle racism.
As some Black families celebrate Kwanzaa this week, we asked children to share their impressions of this nonreligious holiday honoring African American culture.
Fishermen in Sierra Leone need large amounts of ice to store their catch on multiday journeys. Like many commodities, it has become pricey.
At least 10 people were killed and 60 injured from the ensuing fireball, in a scene a witness described as a “zombie apocalypse.”
The Russian president has unleashed a new disorder on the world with his war in Ukraine, and the Central African Republic may be its ultimate expression.
A superstar in Africa, she sang in the language of her tribe and often addressed social concerns, insisting on women’s strength and decrying abuse.
Turnout in Saturday’s parliamentary elections was just over 11 percent, reflecting deep skepticism that politics can solve the North African nation’s grave governmental and economic crises.
Despite a high-profile scandal, Cyril Ramaphosa was able to secure enough support to stay in control, almost assuring him a second term as the country’s leader after elections scheduled for 2024.
Two new routes, managed by Bedouins, will help preserve long-overlooked natural wonders and a vanishing way of life.
Voters will choose a new Parliament, but under revised rules that vastly dilute the influence of political parties that many blame for sabotaging the North African nation’s 10-year experiment with democracy.
A bizarre scandal threatens to topple President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa from leadership of the African National Congress, which begins its party conference on Friday. Will A.N.C. members buy his astonishing account?
The official, previously identified as a senior operative with the Wagner Group, was hospitalized in the capital of the Central African Republic, according to the Russian embassy.
President Biden faced a challenge in winning the confidence of a continent where the circumstances of its leaders vary so dramatically.
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda suggested that only an invasion of his country could force him to release Paul Rusesabagina, a rescuer in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
The Russian arms dealer swapped for Brittney Griner was convicted of conspiring to kill Americans. But in the 1990s and early 2000s, he supplied weapons to myriad African conflicts.
In Kinshasa, a megacity of 15 million, heavy rain left roads, infrastructure and many neighborhoods underwater or in ruins.
Nearly 50 African heads of state are attending the first U.S.-Africa summit since 2014. It opened with sessions on civil conflict, democracy and space exploration.
Legislators with the African National Congress party voted not to hold impeachment hearings of their embattled president, Cyril Ramaphosa, giving him a political lift amid the scandal known as “Farmgate.”
Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud, a former intelligence officer accused of delivering the bomb that destroyed a passenger jet mid flight in 1988, was abducted from his home, according to relatives.
An official declaration of famine would unleash aid and attention. Some experts say Somalia shows that the international system for making the judgment is broken.
President Macky Sall of Senegal, chairman of the bloc, said in an interview before the U.S.-Africa summit that it’s time for the continent to have more seats in global institutions.
China, Russia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are all vying for influence in Africa. What will the Biden administration offer at a summit that starts Tuesday in Washington?
The authorities hesitated to impose restrictions in the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak because of residual trauma from the Covid lockdown. Ebola then spread to the capital, killing dozens of Ugandans.
Leaders of the governing African National Congress said they opposed holding an impeachment hearing for President Cyril Ramaphosa over a scandal involving cash stolen from a couch at his game farm.
The agreement, which was boycotted by some political forces, comes more than a year after a coup that scuttled the country’s transition to democratic rule.
The South African president had considered resigning after Parliament released a report last week accusing him of violating his oath of office by obscuring details about a 2020 robbery at his game farm.
An independent panel reported to Parliament that the South African president might have broken the law in a scandal over a large amount of cash hidden at his game farm that was then stolen.
Mr. Ramaphosa, who is accused of a cover-up involving millions of dollars in cash, is up against the biggest threat of his time in power.
Richard Stengel, a former Time editor who ghostwrote Nelson Mandela’s memoir, revisits their long-ago conversations for a new podcast on Audible.
Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angola’s former president, was accused of enriching herself with state resources during her time in control of the country’s oil company.
Janusz Walus, who killed the charismatic anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani, was stabbed just before he was due to be freed on parole, in a ruling that ignited anger in South Africa. He survived.
An extremist group, Al Shabab, claimed responsibility for the attack in the Somali capital. The siege was still underway on Monday morning.
From Somalia to Ukraine to Xinjiang in China, Volker Türk will have no shortage of challenges as he steps into one of the United Nations’ most delicate roles.
She helped Jews in Africa and elsewhere feel connected to their origins by helping them start businesses and open synagogues and schools.
President Cyril Ramaphosa emerged well-placed to win a second term as the head of the country’s governing party, although there is much haggling and horse-trading to come.
The Supreme Court decision raises the possibility that former President Jacob Zuma, who was granted medical parole from a contempt-of-court sentence, may have to return to prison.
The worst drought in 40 years is pushing Somalia to the brink. If it triggers a rare famine declaration, the militant group Al Shabab will also be to blame.
The global appetites of Europe’s major leagues shape talent pipelines from South America to Africa. That picks winners and losers long before the games are played.
Amid the ‘loss and damage’ debate at global climate talks, the study adds to evidence that less-developed countries suffer from warming that industrialized nations largely cause.
Droughts, cyclones and floods have forced the people of Madagascar, a poor country in the southern Indian Ocean, to find new homes, new livelihoods and even new diets.
“What matters at the World Cup is experience,” Senegal’s coach says. “How do you want to have experience if you go to the World Cup every 20 years?”
The small country in southeastern Africa is leveraging its little-known rock cliffs and boulders to develop local interest in climbing — and to draw adventure tourists.
A note in the handwriting of Alaa Abd El Fattah, who has been on hunger strike for about seven months, read: “I began drinking water, my vitals are good.”
The West African nation of Benin adopted one of the continent’s most liberal laws on abortion last year after hearing testimony from gynecologists about women dying from illegal abortions.
For the first time, the conference agenda will officially include the divisive issue of compensation by large nations responsible for the bulk of emissions.
In South Africa, a township’s battle over a new mine shows the challenge of a nation dependent on coal, but also desperate to leave it behind.
Truck drivers used to wait for days before crossing the Gambia River by ferry, but a towering bridge has cut the transit time down to minutes, and brought Senegal and Gambia closer.
No single image tells the story of a climate in crisis, but our photographers have come back from their global travels with an encyclopedia’s worth of pictures that hint at the scope and devastation.
The publication of details of a 2014 loan agreement for a cross-country train fulfilled a campaign vow by President William Ruto and revealed Beijing’s tough terms.
The new right-wing government appears to be taking a harder line with people who are picked up in the Mediterranean as they try to cross from Libya.
Humanitarian groups say Somalia’s leaders are resisting a formal declaration of famine that could unlock aid and save lives.
Maxine Angel Opoku has found a new audience for her music with songs opposing a proposed law that would make it illegal to identify as gay, transgender or queer.
Fighters in the country’s northern Tigray region, who fought a bitter two-year war against the Ethiopian Army, must disarm within 30 days and allow security forces to take control of Tigray’s capital.
Deaths believed to be linked to contaminated cough syrups in Gambia have brought attention to loose regulations in India and a lack of testing capacity in poor importing nations.
After two years of fighting that left millions displaced or on the brink of starvation, the announcement came out of peace talks convened by the African Union in South Africa.
Water competition, termites and poisons have all been credited with causing the formations in an African desert’s vegetation, but researchers say a new study discounts one of them.
Maybe the walls are disguising the undiscovered burial chamber of Nefertiti. Or “maybe it’s Al Capone’s safe.”
Twin explosions were the deadliest terrorist attack in the country in five years and underscored the growing threat posed by the terrorist group Al Shabab.
The attack comes as the newly elected government battles terrorist activity with a series of new measures aimed at the terrorist group Al Shabab.
A new administration in Somalia has launched an offensive against Al Shabab, which are also facing an uprising from local militias.
By counting the facial neurons in African savanna and Asian elephants, researchers made a discovery about the animals’ trunks.
President Cyril Ramaphosa presented measures that would place even himself and his cabinet under scrutiny. But some analysts question whether the plan will be carried out.
Delegations from both sides have traveled to South Africa for the first formal negotiations since the civil war erupted nearly two years ago.
Demonstrators had taken to the streets, demanding that the ruling military junta stick to its promises to hold elections.
Despite being called “immoral” by some politicians, this year’s Nyege Nyege festival celebrated diversity and innovation in contemporary African music.
The country is experiencing its worst floods in years, damaging homes, infrastructure and vast sections of farmland.
Citing national security, Britain wants to stop its retired military pilots from accepting lucrative contracts to train members of the People’s Liberation Army.
A new study shows that domesticated bananas have genetic markers tying them to three types of wild bananas that have not yet been found.
Yale University Art Gallery maps the surviving work of the Yoruban carver in his 50-year career bridging ritual and modern art. Attention is long overdue.
In a Congolese national park, great apes of different species interact socially, with individuals clearly recognizing one another.
The small African nation has positioned itself as an altruistic partner of wealthier countries seeking to curb migration. But experts say Rwanda’s human rights record makes it no refuge for asylum seekers.
Months of discreet American diplomacy have failed to stop the fighting in northern Ethiopia. Now, the civil war is plunging into its most alarming phase yet.
Paul Siguqa grew up hating wineries because his mother toiled in their fields. But last year he opened the only fully Black-owned vineyard in Franschhoek, one of South Africa’s most prestigious wine towns.
A land of thwarted potential, the country fends off outside influences, political change and some of its own history.
“I arrived here and I hear, ‘Russia and Ukraine are one people,’” Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said in Senegal on the first stop of his 10-day trip across Africa.
Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba seized power in a coup in January. But factions of the military grew frustrated with his handling of a security crisis plaguing the West African nation.
Unrest quickly escalated in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, as military officers who removed another military leader accused France of helping him stage a comeback.
Marilyn Nance was 23 when she photographed FESTAC ’77, the immense gathering of Black artists in Nigeria. In ‘Last Day in Lagos,’ she shares her archive.
The outbreak was caused by the Sudan strain of the virus, which has no approved vaccine or drug treatment. Scientists are now rushing to begin clinical trials in the coming weeks.
The South African branch of the global consulting firm has been charged in a corruption scandal related to its work with the country’s state-owned freight rail and port operator.
The officers said they had decided to remove the president because of his inability to stem a growing Islamist insurgency in the north and east of the country.
Mass protests, once a grave threat to even the fiercest autocrat, have plummeted in effectiveness, a study shows. Factors appear to include polarization, social media and rising nationalist attitudes.
Astronomers on Earth — and a shoebox-size Italian spacecraft called LICIACube — captured the DART mission’s successful strike on Dimorphos.
In addition to those killed, dozens of women were raped when security forces stormed a pro-democracy rally in 2009, a U.N. investigation found. Eleven men, including the country’s former president, are on trial.
Hakainde Hichilema is hailed as a miracle worker for turning around the fortunes of the southern African country. But with his opposition neutralized and a corruption drive focused on his predecessors, some are uneasy.
Paul Gicheru was accused of tampering with witnesses in favor of President William Ruto, whose trial at The Hague collapsed in 2016. The cause of death is not yet known.
Tourists, vendors, babies, hundreds of university students and a soccer team from Senegal perished in a little-known ferry disaster 20 years ago. Survivors and families of victims still want justice.
In a country where wildlife trafficking already runs rampant, conservationists fear that ransoming of animals may become a common tactic used by criminals.
“We cannot afford to waste another moment debating the merits of doing something vis a vis doing nothing,” he said.
President Biden portrayed Russia as the chief threat to global peace and renewed warnings that “a nuclear war cannot be won.”
As he took the reins of power, William Ruto promised to alleviate rising prices and strengthen the judiciary. But his team limited local television access, raising concern about press freedoms.
In Commonwealth nations with British colonial histories, Queen Elizabeth’s death is rekindling discussions about a more independent future.
William Ruto built a career on beating the odds. In his greatest triumph, he is expected to be inaugurated as Kenya’s fifth president on Tuesday.
While some in Africa paid tribute to the deceased monarch, others stressed Britain’s violent colonial history on the continent.
The Rwandan government is hoping to build a local golf culture and harness the sport to appeal to international tourists and investors.
The director Gina Prince-Bythewood is known for her attention to character, but she made this historic saga of female warriors on another scale altogether.
After a dominant political party tied to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi filed complaints against them, the journalists were charged with publishing fake news, among other counts.
President Biden’s foreign policy priority overlaps with a main domestic drive — both made more urgent by the persistent power of China, Russia and Donald J. Trump.
At least 35 people were killed and dozens of others wounded when a roadside blast struck a convoy. The country has been devastated by growing violence driven by extremist groups.
A U.N. official stopped short of officially declaring a famine in the country. But some aid workers said that the threshold had already been reached.
In a sweeping rejection of claims that the Aug. 9 vote had been rigged, the court confirmed Vice President William Ruto as the country’s fifth president.
The attack in central Somalia comes even as the country faces a devastating drought that has left almost half its population hungry.
A judicial panel ruled the energy giant had not properly consulted local communities, possibly setting a broader precedent for challenges to offshore drilling activities.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule by Monday on whether the recent election of William Ruto as president, now mired in a welter of conflicting accusations, should stand.
Health officials met with families that had waited more than two months to learn why 21 teenagers died one June night in an overcrowded bar.
Newly released data seen by The New York Times suggests that the Kremlin-affiliated Wagner Group plays a central role in violence against civilians in the Central African Republic and Mali.