Africa

UNITED NATIONS — In speech after speech, world leaders dwelled on the topic consuming this year’s U.N. General Assembly meeting: Russia’s war in Ukraine. A few, like Nigerian President Muhammadu...

A strike of air traffic controllers on Friday grounded flights in and out of airports in several West and Central African countries.  The Union of Air Traffic Controllers’ Unions of...

NEW YORK — Sudan’s ruling military general, who mounted a coup nearly a year ago, said he will not run in future elections for a civilian-led government, but offered no...

UNITED NATIONS — After three days in which the war in Ukraine consumed world leaders at the United Nations, other conflicts and concerns are beginning to emerge. Some are long-simmering...

A young president at the U.N. General Assembly touted millennial status symbols like coffee, outdoor adventure and Bitcoin. Another admitted in front of the famous green marble that it was...

The flooding in Nigeria is extreme. Houses have been swept away, more than 300 lives have been lost and more than 100,000 people are displaced, according to the authorities. The...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Dozens of women holding babies rushed to take their places on wooden benches at a clinic in Zimbabwe while a nurse took a separate group of anxious...

Seyda Bal, who works at a bank in Istanbul, is so anxious about the rising price of groceries that she’s lapsed into a pandemic-era habit: hoarding packaged goods like coffee...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: U.S. climate envoy John Kerry’s message on warming gets a cool reception, Senegal reshuffles its cabinet, and Nigeria’s economy keeps sinking. If you would...

A 24-year-old man in Uganda‘s central Mubende district showed symptoms and later died. “We want to inform the country that we have an outbreak of Ebola which we confirmed yesterday,”...