The country at the center of a global health emergency is struggling even to diagnose cases and provide basic care.

Crushing obligations to foreign creditors that have few precedents have sapped numerous African nations of growth and stoked social instability.

The Arba’at dam fell apart after days of heavy rain, killing villagers and flooding communities.

The author sought an authentic experience, and found it in Lets Drift, “an exuberant Kenyan-centered enterprise” of people living in and near Nairobi.

Drugmakers have supplies ready to ship that are necessary to stop a potential pandemic. But W.H.O. regulations have slowed access.

American-led mediators secured famine relief for needy areas. But with Sudan’s military failing to attend, a cease-fire was far out of reach.

The diamond was unearthed using new technology, and miners hope it will bring back luster to a struggling industry.

Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, who is accused of killing dozens of women, and 12 other people were able to break free, the police said.

An evangelical pastor in Kenya ordered his flock to shun education and medicine and starve their children to death in order to meet Jesus, witnesses in a manslaughter trial said.

Kenya has strict rules about displaying the flag. But some people have been wearing and waving them, and draping them on coffins, as a symbol of resistance.

Accused of blocking food aid for its starving people, Sudan’s military announced it would reopen the main border crossing with Chad, which it had closed for six months to U.N. relief trucks.

In his posts atop the governing bodies for African and global soccer, he fought to establish the continent as an equal to Europe and South America.

The virus is evolving, and the newest version spreads more often through heterosexual populations. But the vaccines should still work.

The World Health Organization declared a global health emergency over an outbreak that has spread to more than a dozen African countries.

The World Health Organization declared a global health emergency over an outbreak that has spread to more than a dozen African countries.

The epidemic is concentrated in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the virus has now appeared in a dozen other African countries.

The American-backed talks in Switzerland, starting on Wednesday, aim to halt a catastrophic civil war. But only one side says it will turn up.

The clampdown came after the police banned a youth rally and pointed to the anti-government protests that have swept neighboring Kenya in recent months.

Weeks after an international police force began arriving to take on gangs, armed groups are redirecting their campaign of terror outside the capital.

Hundreds of students from Venezuela, Afghanistan, Israel and elsewhere converged at Carnegie Hall, using music to cope in a time of strife and unrest.