Africa

Relics From an Ancient Egyptian ‘Party Town’ Are Pulled...

Remnants of a 2,000-year-old sunken city, Canopus, were lifted from waters off A...

Longest-Running Rafiki Says Goodbye to ‘The Lion King’

After more than 9,000 performances as the shaman in the Broadway show, Tshidi Ma...

Tiébilé Dramé, Voice for Rights in Mali, Is Dead at 70

A former foreign minister, he founded an opposition political party and then ser...

Trump Budget Office Is Withholding H.I.V. Funds That Co...

Lawmakers allocated $6 billion this fiscal year for PEPFAR, the H.I.V. preventio...

Congo Has Astronomical Rates of Sexual Violence. Now Vi...

The conflict that has put rebels in control of much of the east of the country ...

African Union Endorses Call to Abandon the Mercator Map

A campaign is underway to replace the world’s most popular map, which the effort...

Unregulated Sexual Stimulants Flood West Africa

Unregulated sexual stimulants claiming to be herbal remedies or pharmaceuticals ...

A Pakistani Village Devastated by Flooding: ‘Like Death...

At least 660 people have died in rain-related incidents across Pakistan since mo...

Israel Is in Talks to Send Gazans to South Sudan, Offic...

Israel has broadened its push, so far unsuccessful, to persuade other countries ...

Mali’s Junta Accuses Frenchman of Plot to Overthrow the...

A representative of the junta said the man had worked “on behalf of the French i...

A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts ...

The dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has disrupted the global supply chain that provide...

Sudan Hit by Its ‘Worst Cholera Outbreak’ in Years, Med...

International charities warned that, left unchecked, the disease’s spread might ...

Human Rights Report Under Trump Blunts Language on Isra...

A collection of U.S. reports on human rights offenses trimmed or omitted past la...

Seven Ticks Hitched Very Long Rides to Connecticut

The nonnative species from Europe, Latin America and Eastern Africa reached the ...

South Africa’s Equity Laws, Reviled by Trump, May Compl...

Slapped with a steep tariff, South African officials hope for a deal, but some w...

Big-Game Hunter Is Killed by Buffalo During Safari

Asher Watkins, a real estate executive from Texas, was tracking a Cape buffalo i...