South African authorities said that for now they were treating the case as a robbery, but the political allies of the man who was shot, Serge Ndayizeye, had their suspicions of an assassination.

The envoy, Luca Attanasio, and another victim, a Carabinieri officer, were traveling in a convoy of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the African country.

The Treasury Department slapped sanctions on the Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler in 2017 for corruption in Africa. In Donald Trump’s final days in office, they were rolled back with no explanation.

Opposition political leaders said they were attacked by government forces on Friday, and two former presidents said they were targeted hours earlier.

Her novel, “How Beautiful We Were,” is a story about how people respond to environmental destruction. It was delayed by the pandemic and before that by the success of her previous book, “Behold the Dreamers.”

A teacher at Government Science College in Kagara said the gunmen had entered the school premises in the middle of the night, dressed in military camouflage.

Paul Rusesabagina, a government critic living abroad, was mysteriously taken back to Rwanda and arrested. His supporters say he has no prayer of a fair trial.

The pair, a former legislator and a former African soccer official, collectively face 53 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for their alleged role in the conflict in the Central African Republic.

The former South African president, tainted by endemic corruption scandals during his tenure, refused to appear before an inquiry panel. The panel’s leader said he would seek a high-court order to imprison Mr. Zuma for contempt.

Fifteen people arrested in Ethiopia were part of what American and Israeli officials said was a foiled Iranian plot against diplomats from the United Arab Emirates.

Health officials promised rapid delivery of vaccines and other epidemic-fighting measures after confirming seven cases in the country’s southeast.

He honed methods of prevention, diagnosis and treatment, and made them accessible to underserved populations in sub-Sahara Africa. He died of Covid-19.

Tens of thousands of Christian refugees, fleeing the violence in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, have been given a warm welcome by the residents of a sleepy Sudanese town. “We are brothers.”

The Dutch energy company has a presence in Britain, and a judge ruled there was “a real issue to be tried.”

An unlikely alliance of rebels is laying siege to the capital, displacing about 200,000 people, after a disrupted election. Here is an explanation of a humanitarian crisis that gets scant attention.

Scientists have found that are sawfish thriving in some habitats while vanishing from others.

A finding that the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine had little effect on a fast-spreading coronavirus variant was baleful news for poorer countries counting on the shot.

Air quality is improving in one of the continent’s fastest-growing regions, researchers have found. If the trend can be sustained, it would be good news for human health and climate change.

At least 24 people died after being trapped in the basement of a house in Tangier after torrential rains in the city, the government said.

A woman who was in contact with at least 70 people has died of Ebola in a violence-plagued region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It could signal the start of the 12th outbreak of the virus in the country.