The country has one of the most feared armed forces in Africa, yet within its own borders, it has repeatedly failed to stop abductions and attacks.

Rwanda’s government responded by claiming the sanctions unjustly targeted only one party to the conflict and misrepresented the facts.

Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, has an ambitious vision for the continent’s most populous nation, but hurdles stand in his way.

President Trump’s approach is a revival of the mission of empire — acquiring the territories and resources of sovereign peoples.

The South African leader said that the men had come home two weeks after he had won agreement from President Vladimir V. Putin.

The country, a major center for African art, will not have an official presence at this year’s event after a legal dispute over a Gaza-focused artwork.

A paramilitary group in Sudan’s civil war “acted with genocidal intent” in a monthslong siege of El Fasher, according to human rights experts.

An Associated Press reporter was beaten and held with three other journalists and a lawyer, two detainees said, while at a center for migrants secretively deported from the United States.

The government of President Salva Kiir has been accused of gross incompetence, as fighting between rebels and security forces pushes toward the capital.

Tshephiso Marumo has had success selling traditional village food in Botswana. But as she has risen, she has become more outspoken, inviting backlash.

He made several trips to South Africa, and to other African nations, as a peace broke and a representative of Black America.

Most had court orders protecting them from removal to their home countries, so they were sent to detention in Cameroon.

Peter Biar Ajak, a democracy advocate, was convicted of conspiring to buy and export weapons for a revolt in South Sudan.

Borrowing from jazz and African rhythms, he forged a singular style that helped define music in his native Ghana — and West Africa — for a generation.

The deployment follows months of escalating pressure from President Trump on the African nation, including a surprise missile strike on Christmas Day.

Floral arrangements crafted from carefully-folded, colorful bank notes, had become a popular symbol of love in Nairobi.

Archaeologists say a 2,200-year-old specimen is the first direct evidence of how the Carthaginian war machine used the giant mammals in the Punic Wars.

The movie, directed by two brothers, contrasts intimate impressions with a tense moment in Nigeria’s history.

The region has become a critical theater for global rivalries amid Israel’s recognition of breakaway Somaliland and Washington’s counterterrorism efforts.

Health workers in developing countries know that isolating tuberculosis patients is an outdated and potentially harmful practice, but lack the resources to move away from it.