Police statistics in South Africa dispute President Trump’s claim that Afrikaners are being targeted in a genocide, but the high murder rate includes victims of all backgrounds. John Eligon, our Johannesburg bureau chief, traveled with several patrol groups in communities of South Africa to explore how the country is dealing with crime.

A show focused on Ladi Kwali and other Black female potters is a revelation.

Africa’s most populous nation was already facing one of the world’s biggest hunger crises. It’s getting much worse.

The ash cloud drifted over northern India, causing some flight delays and cancellations, and continued toward China.

Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry.

Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry.

Recycling lead for U.S. car batteries is poisoning children — and we know because we tested them. Will Fitzgibbon, a reporter at The Examination, describes how children in Nigeria developed lead levels associated with lifelong brain damage, and how factory workers told us they were coughing up black dust.

Dr. Esperance Luvindao, who leads the country’s health and social services and is the youngest health minister in Africa, has ambitious plans.

With the United States boycotting the summit, other nations sought to strike new deals, and some took a tougher tone with President Trump.

Thousands of the endangered primates end up on the dinner plates of people in the upper rung of the country’s society who have money to spare.

The meeting is scheduled for Saturday afternoon on the sidelines of the G20 summit in South Africa. The White House plan calls for Ukraine to make significant concessions to Russia.

An audacious effort joined two disparate communities, who say they all suffer from the staggering violence and crime affecting the country.

An audacious effort joined two disparate communities, who say they all suffer from the staggering violence and crime affecting the country.

There are widespread attacks across the country affecting many religious and ethnic groups. Many of them defy a simple explanation.

Students and teachers were taken captive from a Catholic school in the latest in a wave of such attacks in the country.

Johannesburg this weekend will host the first G20 meeting on African soil. Protesters are using the moment to draw attention to domestic problems.

The girl hid in a toilet; another managed to sneak away. Security forces are still trying to rescue the 24 girls who were abducted in northwestern Nigeria.

It is unclear what President Trump will do to end a brutal civil war in which both sides are backed by U.S. allies, but his statement that he will try has raised hopes for peace.

The decision to have an acting ambassador attend the Group of 20 in South Africa came after the president said the United States would boycott.

Blood and soil testing confirmed the health consequences. Then we tracked individual shipments to the United States.