In South Africa, where the Black majority was excluded from the economy for generations, the annual Durban July event is a chance to celebrate luxury and high society.

The tiny African nation was eliminated from the World Cup by one of soccer’s biggest powers, Argentina, but that didn’t mean there wasn’t a lot to celebrate.

The Central African nation remembers the end of a murderous campaign against ethnic Tutsis that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

Cape Verde, a tiny African archipelago, was thrilled to qualify for the World Cup, let alone take on the defending champions. But its fans feel confident.

Congo lost, 2-1, to England on Wednesday, after spending most of the game winning.

Congo lost 2-1 to England on Wednesday night, after spending most of the game winning.

Safe interment is critical to containing the deadly disease, but in recent days around one Congolese town, that was not always being done.

Frontline Congolese workers who conduct safe burials are key to containing what experts fear could become the worst ever Ebola outbreak. They risk not just infection, but the anger of terrified communities.

Our chief Africa correspondent, Declan Walsh, reports from a city where Red Cross workers carrying out burials in the Ebola outbreak have come under attack.

Cape Verdeans were ecstatic when their country qualified for the World Cup. Their joy has now been supercharged by what seemed unthinkable before the tournament: a spot in the knockouts.

A threat to all undocumented foreigners to leave the country by Tuesday has led many to set up street camps as they try to get out.

Most of the people testing positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo are not on health workers’ radar, suggesting that contact tracing is lagging dangerously behind.

The protest, an annual event, has become a showcase of the growing political power of Kenya’s youth.

South Sudan is the world’s newest nation and its education system is on the verge of collapse, putting an entire generation at risk.

Scientists believe that the Bundibugyo virus persists in an animal species, occasionally spilling over into humans. But they have yet to identify the species.

A highway running through El Obeid links Darfur in west Sudan to the east, making it a strategically significant battleground.

That is good news for patients, but officials fear it will make controlling the spread of the disease harder.

A generic version of a breakthrough cystic fibrosis drug, manufactured in Bangladesh for a fraction of the American price, may give some families around the world an unlikely lifeline.

A lawsuit filed in California claims the automaker’s philanthropic arm stole technology intended to help poor farmers, but it is not clear to what end.

Cape Verde’s veteran goalkeeper, Vozinha, is keeping the archipelago nation’s hopes outsized after his performance against soccer giant Spain.