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.

At least 129 people died when inmates tried to escape from Makala Prison, where conditions are abysmal and overcrowding is a major problem.

The trip by President William Ruto of Kenya came against a bleak backdrop in Haiti, where gangs operate with impunity and the Kenyan peacekeepers remain largely out of sight.

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.

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.

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.

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?

The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western approaches to the field.

After a second apparent assassination attempt, there is widespread concern that the November election will not end well and that American democracy has frayed to the breaking point.

The West African country’s armed forces said the assault, on a school for military police, was carried out by terrorists.

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.

Taiwo and Kehinde were groundbreaking for their funky songs, as well as their feminism. Five years after Kehinde’s death, their albums will be reissued.

The decision is a crucial step in getting shots to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the center of the outbreak.

The sentences were handed down months after the central African country lifted a moratorium on carrying out the death penalty.