AFRICA

  WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on Tuesday pressed the leader od Ethiopia to end hostilities in...

20H/501Y.V2.VOC 202012/02.B.1.351.Those were the charming names scientists proposed for a new variant of the coronavirus that was identified in South...

The health minister of Somalia on Monday proposed new efforts to curb the rising number of coronavirus infections in the...

DAKAR, Senegal — When nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls were kidnapped from their boarding school by the Islamist group Boko Haram...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Rwanda’s attorney general inadvertently revealed that he had intercepted privileged and confidential legal materials in the ongoing...

In 2010, another member of the R.N.C., a former army chief named Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, was shot and wounded in...

ROME — The Italian ambassador to Congo and a Carabinieri officer were killed on Monday while traveling in a United...

WASHINGTON — In early December, an Israeli billionaire named Dan Gertler made an unusual request to the Treasury Department.A mining...

NAIROBI — Opposition protests in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, were interrupted by gunfire on Friday, heightening a political standoff caused...

Mbue, he said, “comes from a place where the story has been so stifled, so killed, so destroyed, that I...