Africa

While France and the United States turn a blind eye, Alassane Ouattara is rolling back the region’s democratic gains and legitimizing authoritarian rule.

Drought has disrupted the traditional way of life for pastoralists, pushing many women into business for the first time.

The country needs stronger institutions to bolster public confidence in the democratic system. The international community can help.

Tangled in a geopolitical, economic, and global health storm, these African islands have charted a course to break free.

The announcement could end Sudan’s three decades as an international pariah. But it comes at a cost.

Westerners are overrepresented in senior positions across the world body.

Across much of the world—including one remote Nigerian village—the availability of family planning will largely depend on the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.

Beijing’s foreign investments are often money-losing and driven by recipients’ own agendas.

The continent's pop culture market is booming, just as U.S.-Chinese competition is heating up.

The conflict between Ethiopia and Egypt over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has already started. It’s just happening in cyberspace.

A string of assassinations has spawned conspiracy theories and intercommunal suspicion, threatening the country’s stability.

The burning of the Moria refugee camp in Lesbos has exposed the EU’s short-sighted, inhumane, and ineffective approach to asylum.

Without a coherent counterterrorism strategy or regional assistance, the odds are stacked against the Mozambican military.

The president doesn’t have a clear chosen successor, and the unsolved killing of an election official shows that the country could be caught in another cycle of violence.

Some U.S. officials fear the move will harm Washington’s relationship with Addis Ababa.