Mthuthuzeli November was determined to get out of his impoverished home town. Now has his work alongside George Balanchine at the Paris Opera Ballet.

Accusing Nigeria of not doing enough to protect Christians from violence, President Trump said he had ordered the Pentagon to prepare for action.

Election monitors and members of the European Parliament have questioned the election’s integrity, and violent protests have rocked the country.

The world seems unable, or unwilling, to do much to stop a new struggle on an old battlefield, as atrocities sweep villages and towns.

In novels and short stories, she delivered sharp observations of the constraints and contradictions of apartheid and its aftermath.

As the violence continued for a third day, the United Nations said at least 10 people had been killed. Opposition leaders claimed the death toll could be in the hundreds.

Evidence of atrocities emerging from the city of El Fasher stoked fears that the Sudanese region of Darfur is plunging, once again, into a cycle of genocidal violence.

In a major shift from the Biden administration’s policy, the United States will accept up to 7,500 refugees this fiscal year, down from 125,000.

The hospital had served as the last refuge for many starving or injured civilians in El Fasher, a major battleground in Darfur recently seized by the Rapid Support Forces.

Author Wole Soyinka, a vocal critic of President Trump, told the Nigerian press he did not attend a visa renewal interview requested by the State Department.

The East African country’s Party of Revolution, one of the longest-ruling parties on the continent, seeks to keep its grip on power.

Sudan’s military chief, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, confirmed that his forces had withdrawn from El Fasher, a decisive shift in control of the sprawling Darfur region of Sudan.

President Alassane Ouattara won 89.77 percent of the vote, but critics called the elections flawed after two main challengers were barred from running.

Official election results gave him an eighth term that, if completed, will last until he is 99. Mr. Biya is one of many leaders well over 70 across Africa, the world’s youngest continent.

A Somali hospital ward packed with gasping children shows how war, climate and mistrust of vaccines is fueling the disease’s return.

The Rapid Support Forces said it had seized the army headquarters in El Fasher, its last major obstacle to controlling the sprawling western region of Sudan.

The main opposition candidates in the Ivory Coast’s presidential election have been barred from the race. Critics say the vote has been rigged.

Treating baby wraps with a mosquito repellent shows promising protection against a top killer of children.

The proposal was the latest twist in a byzantine saga that has transformed the Salvadoran migrant into one of the best-known symbols of President Trump’s aggressive deportation agenda.

The sea looks the same. So does the sand. But in Egypt, two beach communities not far from each other have decidedly different ideas about fun.