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.

We followed the supply chain for batteries used in millions of U.S. cars to villages in Nigeria where people are being poisoned by lead. Peter S. Goodman, who covers economics and geopolitics for The Times, describes our yearlong investigation.

Post-election violence has tarnished the country’s reputation for stability, and the crackdown may have backfired on the government, as officials in Washington call for a re-examination of U.S. ties.

A little-known group sold passage to desperate Palestinians who didn’t know their destination, catching the South African government by surprise.

The kidnapping echoed the abduction of the Chibok girls 11 years ago and came as U.S. officials pressed the country to address violence against Christians.

Paramilitaries accused of atrocities pledged to allow international aid and investigators into El Fasher, days after an airstrike hit a United Nations vehicle.

The comments, by a member of Kenya’s ruling party, represent a rebuke of President William Ruto’s government: “Heads must roll.”

At the annual meeting of the world’s major economic powers, U.S. objections are blocking the usual policy statements, highlighting the president’s distaste for multilateralism — and compromise.