Africa

Anne Merriman, ‘Mother of Palliative Care’ in Uganda, D...

A medical doctor and former nun, she found an affordable way to expand palliativ...

Algerian Court Upholds 5-Year Sentence for Boualem Sans...

The conviction of Boualem Sansal, an outspoken French and Algerian writer, has w...

Overlooked No More: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Whose Camera So...

He was a pioneering figure in Black British art whose rebellious, symbol-rich im...

The Evolution of Trump’s Views on Foreign Aid

The administration has gutted agencies like U.S.A.I.D., and President Trump has ...

Regulators Approve Lenacapavir for H.I.V. Prevention

The drug could change the course of the AIDS epidemic. But the Trump administrat...

When Humans Learned to Live Everywhere

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments...

Bat Cave Footage Offers Clues to How Viruses Leap Betwe...

Video from a national park in Uganda depicted a parade of predatory species feed...

Foday Musa Suso, 75, Dies; Ambitious Ambassador for Wes...

A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career...

Mpox Surges in Sierra Leone

West African nations are struggling to track and treat infections, and experts w...

3 Lessons From International Protests Amid the L.A. Unrest

Experts who study protest movements say the scenes unfolding in California broad...

Zambia’s Former President Edgar Lungu Dies at 68

Mr. Lungu, who was recently barred by a court ruling from running for president ...

Trump Travel Order Bans People From 12 Countries From E...

The travel ban revives an effort from President Trump’s first term that led to c...

Even Before Trump’s Visa Clampdown, U.S. Was Losing Afr...

African students have traded academic institutions in the West for Chinese alter...

Africans See Trump’s New Travel Ban as ‘A Big Slap in t...

Seven of the 12 countries on President Trump’s new list are on the continent, wh...

Why Trump Is Trying to Send Deportees to South Sudan

On May 20th, a flight with eight deportees left Texas headed to South Sudan, a c...