Africa

Seeking the right partners is just as important as avoiding the wrong ones.

The need for web access has driven African countries to Huawei despite U.S. concerns.

The perennial British charity is sticking with poverty porn in its fundraising efforts.

Airstrikes on al-Shabab have tripled under Trump.

The EU has committed to outsourcing its dirty work to authoritarians in the Middle East and Africa—and to confusing dependence for maturity.

A new study finds some of the world’s biggest humanitarian disasters go virtually uncovered.

The Kenyan High Court has delayed deciding on decriminalizing homosexuality.

More than 600,000 Africans fought for Britain in World War II. Now they want a fair deal.

Nigeria shows that economic growth combined with rising inequality won’t lift people out of poverty. The country’s next government should heed the lesson.

Apathetic voters are planning to boycott this weekend’s election—and may inadvertently boost the country’s most fervent separatists.

As the United States pulls back from the world body, experts say it is ceding influence to China.

Setting the bar too low for African democracies, as the international community did in Madagascar, encourages electoral manipulation and bad governance.

The issue of restructuring the country’s delicate federal system has long been off limits. Both candidates have now put it front and center, ensuring that reforms are on the way.

Nigerians fleeing violence at home are being kicked out of northern Cameroon and being sent back to areas terrorized by Boko Haram.

Twenty years after its return to democratic rule, Nigeria is on the verge of re-electing a dictator.

The State Department endorsed Felix Tshisekedi’s unlikely presidency, taking some U.S. officials by surprise.

Burkina Faso managed to avoid the violence that plagued its neighbors, but a combination of poverty, unstable neighbors, and weak security forces has opened the door for extremists.

For Prosper Africa to work, it needs to unleash the power of U.S. investors.

The project is part of a broader military entrenchment in Africa.

Ivory Coast is often held up as a post-conflict success. That could all fall apart.