Struggling to find steady work, many migrants who have arrived recently from Senegal have adapted with a relentless sidewalk hustle, sustaining their families through street vending.

Making a home on the world’s most remote inhabited island.

Making a home on the world’s most remote inhabited island.

As health care workers fought to control the latest outbreak this year, they got crucial aid from churches in beating back fear and misinformation.

Health officials are urgently seeking answers about the origins of a case newly identified in Nigeria, the first in that West African nation.

Governments and businesses in Kenya, the Netherlands and elsewhere were scrambling to prevent hackers from exploiting a vulnerability in PHP, a widely used programming language.

Struggling against each other on the battlefield, the sides in Sudan’s civil war are relying on drones to strike across vast distances, inflicting huge tolls on civilians in the process.

Health officials praised the Nigerian authorities for their transparency in reporting the spread of the virus.

The former soldier had been living in exile since 2020, and said in a video posted this month on TikTok that he feared for his life.

A self-taught chef borrows ingredients and ideas from restaurants run by immigrants in South Africa, hoping to help counter rising xenophobia.

Paul Nthenge Mackenzie told his doomsday followers in a remote forest to fast for salvation. He faced trial after hundreds of bodies were exhumed.

Layers of people certify that gold is free from rights abuses and criminality. Nobody makes them leave their desks.

Layers of people certify that gold is free from rights abuses and criminality. Nobody makes them leave their desks.

The line between dirty and clean gold is an industry fiction. Wall Street and governments profit off gold from criminals, gangsters and those who exploit children.

Seven Ebola infections have now been confirmed in Kenya, which before this month had never recorded cases of the deadly virus.

The White House inquiry is focused on diverging accounts from Richard Grenell and Alina Habba Mildon about a $17 million transfer from a government account in the African country to a Texas defense firm.

The two shootings took place only a few weeks before pivotal, nationwide local elections, and as the party, the A.N.C., is embroiled in a dispute over the eligibility of more than 100 candidates.

The case is likely to raise alarms in the country and increase scrutiny of the government’s surveillance measures.

Jocelyn Bioh’s “School Girls; or The African Mean Girls Play” has audiences laughing, but also wrestles with weighty topics like colorism.

The two nations fought alongside each other during a brutal conflict in Tigray that left hundreds of thousands of people dead just a few years ago. Now they are on the brink of fighting each other.