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.

The archaeologist 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.

The Bidens invited more than 450 guests, including Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Carol Moseley Braun, Melinda Gates, Lester Holt, LeVar Burton and Sean Penn.

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.

The political comeback of Mr. Zuma, the former president and onetime leader of the African National Congress, has presented a test for the country’s fledgling 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.