Dozens of teenagers had been accused of treason and faced possible death sentences, but indignation over their treatment, including lack of food, has the government backpedaling.
The epidemic in Africa continues to grow, prompting fears of another outbreak in the U.S. But the vaccine is no longer free, and vulnerable people are going without.
Political parties that have governed for decades since African countries overthrew colonial rulers are now being challenged by frustrated young voters.
The Russian mercenary group operated with little pushback in the West African nation — until it launched one of its most ambitious missions.
After nearly 60 years, the Botswana Democratic Party lost its majority in Parliament, becoming the latest long-dominant party in southern Africa to fall from power.
Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school.
The party that has governed the country since 1966 could lose power as the economy struggles from a slump in demand for diamonds, which made Botswana an African success story.
Since the documentary’s cameras stopped rolling, plans for a new museum to showcase the treasures have stalled, and the artifacts are once again off limits to the public in Benin.
After a recent dam disaster, Nigerian officials blamed God, climate change and poor people. But experts had warned the dam was at risk well before it collapsed. The officials did nothing.
Paramilitary forces ransacked villages and killed hundreds of people, activists said, hastening calls for the United Nations to deploy a mission to protect civilians.
Mati Diop examines the fate of 26 treasures — sometimes from their point of view — looted from Benin in 1892.
One of West Africa’s most tolerant societies has recently seen a string of assaults on L.G.B.T.Q. people after several social media influencers exhorted their followers to “hunt” gay men.
Climate change, civil conflict and growing resistance to insecticides and treatments are all contributing to an alarming spread of cases.
Daniel Chapo of the Frelimo party, which has governed the southern African nation for nearly 50 years, was declared the victor amid violence and widespread allegations of fraud.
The United States and Nigeria often collaborate. But the arrest of an American worker strained their diplomatic relations.
The Sani family in northern Nigeria has six children, more than the parents can afford but fewer than their own parents had. Birthrates, and the decisions couples make about family size, are changing across Africa.
Leading supporters of the top opposition presidential candidate, Venâncio Mondlane, were fatally shot in their car following an election marred by allegations of fraud.
It’s the first impeachment under the country’s new Constitution, but some are now calling for a similar move against President William Ruto.
More than 160 people died when an overturned fuel tanker in northern Nigeria exploded. Witnesses and relatives of victims said poverty had driven most to try to collect the spilled gas.
Residents of a nearby town came to scoop up the spilled gasoline, but then the tanker exploded, setting off an inferno — an echo of several similar disasters in recent years.
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