The young people who toppled the government are now confronting questions about what’s next, and who will deliver on their demands.

After weeks of protests calling for him to resign, Madagascar’s president, Andry Rajoelina, seemed to have left the country, and the military said it had taken control. John Eligon, the Johannesburg bureau chief for The New York Times, explains what we know and don’t know.

Thousands paid their respects at a stadium in Nairobi. President William Ruto said the spirit of Mr. Odinga, who died at 80, “lives within every Kenyan and every African.”

After the Trump administration stopped funding a medical center for women and children, a determined group of health care workers refused to let it shutter.

Hunger and the diseases that stalk small children have surged in Somalia after the U.S. slashed its aid to the country.