In Ivory Coast, where a major tournament has drawn the continent’s best teams, a plastic sandal is the preferred gear for pickup games and almost everything else.

A new report based on records from the Trump and Biden years found the average length of solitary detainment was longer than the duration the U.N. says can constitute torture.

When Paul Nthenge Mackenzie preached that the world was about to end, many of his believers starved themselves to death. He has now been charged along with 29 others.

President Macky Sall abruptly postponed elections scheduled for this month, and on Monday, legislators in the West African nation voted to allow him to stay in office months after his presidency is to end.

A globalized art market has brought attention to Ghanaian artists like Ibrahim Mahama. On an arts-focused trip to the West African country, a writer finds a thriving scene following its own agenda.

The United Nations-approved mission to stem gang violence in Haiti has faced widespread criticism from activists and lawmakers and was blocked by a High Court judge in Kenya in January.

Mr. Geingob had also been Namibia’s first prime minister after the country gained independence from South Africa in 1990.

The West African country had planned to hold an election in three weeks. But President Macky Sall canceled it indefinitely pending an inquiry into corruption allegations at the constitutional court.

More than 270 others were injured in the late-night blaze that burned many homes and a warehouse.

A project to restore granite blocks that once covered a greater portion of the Pyramid of Menkaure in Giza has been criticized by some preservationists.

While waiting for a court to decide whether Nelson Mandela’s belongings are considered national heritage, Guernsey’s said it had become clear that a sale would be “difficult.”

What paleontologists long believed were long spines on the aptly named Alienacanthus turn out to be an extended lower jaw.

Six years after he was forced from office, former President Jacob Zuma, who still has a loyal following, is campaigning for opponents of the party he once led, the African National Congress.

In the 1990s, he oversaw troops that committed a host of atrocities against equally brutal Islamist rebels in what became known as the Black Decade.

After defending the former South African president and party leader during a slew of corruption scandals, the country’s powerful governing party punished Mr. Zuma for endorsing the opposition.

The sanctions were imposed after soldiers seized power in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.

As documentaries and series about teams proliferate, it’s easy to pine for the ones that offered the clearest windows into the game.

The 1,000-strong Kenyan force was intended to lead a multinational force financed by the United States to restore security in a Caribbean country terrorized by armed gangs.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken finished a four-nation tour of Africa with a visit to Angola, site of major new U.S. investments, which may help counter China’s influence.

Activists fear that one man’s sudden admission that he lit a crowded building ablaze to cover up a murder will let officials off the hook for failing to correct unsafe conditions there.