Choosing an operator that is conservation-minded, with ties to the local community and well-trained guides can add up to the trip of a lifetime and also nurture nature.

More than 250 people have died in this southern African nation as protesters disputing the results of the presidential election clash with the police and military.

Experts said they were “blind” to the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Twenty years later, working toward a world without tsunami deaths is a challenge.

Trapped in Sudan’s brutal civil war, a young woman chose to work in a clinic on the front line, treating civilians and combatants. She had to navigate suspicion from both sides.

In the ruins left by Cyclone Chido, people from Mayotte, off the eastern coast of Africa, are calling to deport the undocumented immigrants who had settled there from neighboring islands.

Hundreds of buildings were damaged or looted, including schools and hospitals, in a wave of unrest after Daniel Chapo was confirmed as the winner of the presidential election.

Around the world, people found ways to show their holiday spirit.

A ruling on Monday confirming that Daniel Chapo had won a disputed election has sparked protests and violence.

The ruling comes after protests that left more than 100 people dead, and paves the way for the candidate from the long-governing Frelimo party to take office next month.

In crowded Kinshasa, two strains of mpox are sweeping through a community that relies on selling sex. Hundreds of thousands of vaccines sent to the country have not been used.

In the West African nation of Niger, killings by insurgents have surged since the military seized power in a coup, expelled U.S. and European troops and stopped negotiations with Islamist groups.

Officials have said that the death toll in Mayotte, currently at 35, could end up in the thousands. But in the capital, there were no scenes of public mourning and little talk of searches for missing loved ones.

The swirling wind and rain hit an area where a yearslong insurgent conflict had already forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes.

The U.S. provides nearly half of the aid for global health, including childhood vaccination, H.I.V. treatment and disease surveillance.

Problems with getting vaccines to families have left many children unvaccinated and in danger of contracting the virus.

Hundreds are feared dead after the storm razed entire neighborhoods in Mayotte, a series of islands off the eastern coast of Africa, before unleashing its destructive force on Mozambique.

The official death toll so far is 14, but there are fears that the number killed in the French territory by Tropical Cyclone Chido could be much higher.

The storm, the equivalent of a Category 4, was moving toward East Africa’s coast on Sunday after killing several people in Mayotte, a French archipelago.

By arming civilians who are poorly trained and have little to no respect for human rights, the military in Burkina Faso has brought the West African nation to the brink of civil war.

Chris Wright, Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary, says oil, gas and coal are key to solving global poverty. Some call that misleading.