Africa
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Newyork
U.S. Troops Kicked Out of Africa? Here’s What Washington Should Do.
The forced withdrawal, announced last month, of more than 1,000 U.S. Special Operations troops and drone operators in Niger and Chad should raise the alarm for Washington. In Africa, our policy of strengthening security partnerships rather than ...
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Books
A Steadying Force for the Africa Center Is Stepping Down
Uzodinma Iweala, chief executive of the Harlem institution, will leave at the end of 2024 after guiding it through pandemic years and securing funds.
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World
How African Immigrants Have Revived a Remote Corner of Quebec
Not long ago, the handful of African immigrants in Rouyn-Noranda, a remote city in northern Quebec, all knew one another. There was the Nigerian woman long married to a Québécois man. The odd researchers from Cameroon or the Ivory Coast. And, of ...
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Newyork
Breaking the Ramadan Fast With Some of Brooklyn’s Newest Arrivals
New migrants from Africa have joined a changing community in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where they have injected more youthful energy but also brought challenges.
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World
Democracy Teetering in African Countries Once Ruled by France
A wave of military coups and presidents clinging to power are two sides of the same anti-democratic coin plaguing Francophone Africa, experts say.
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World
Ghana’s Parliament Passes Anti-Gay Bill With Jail Terms
The legislation would sentence those who identify as L.G.B.T.Q. to three years in jail and punish those who promote gay issues as well. It would be among the harshest on the African continent.
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World
Africa’s Donkeys Are Coveted by China. Can the Continent Protect Them?
Governments are seeking to curb donkey skin exports to China, where demand for traditional medicine and other products is threatening animals that rural households need.
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World
Deadliest Cholera Outbreak in Past Decade Hits Southern Africa
The waterborne disease has killed more than 4,000 people in seven countries over the past two years. Experts blame severe storms, a lack of vaccines, and poor water and sewer systems.
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Sports
China Keeps Building Stadiums in Africa. But at What Cost?
The Alassane Ouattara stadium rises like a piece of sculpture from the dusty brown earth north of Ivory Coast’s largest city, its undulating roof and white columns towering over the empty landscape like a spaceship that has dropped onto a uninhabited ...
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World
Blessing of Same-Sex Couples Rankles Africa’s Catholics
It is out of step with the continent’s values, many bishops say, and threatens to derail expansion in the church’s fastest growing region in the world.