Africa

African nations are fighting to repatriate their artifacts, Washington imposes sanctions on a Chinese paramilitary group, and the United States has a new opportunity to rethink its visa policies.

Pandemic measures focus anger on crimes against women.

Protests have strengthened calls for Western institutions to repatriate priceless cultural artifacts. Museums in Africa are ready to receive them.

The massive Ethiopian dam is a flash point for tensions in Africa—and is now sowing confusion and discord within the U.S. government, with many officials concerned Washington is too much in Egypt’s corner.

Recently disbursed IMF funding will only help the Sisi regime and entrench its rule.

Ignoring the central role of race and colonialism in world affairs precludes an accurate understanding of the modern state system.

A Chinese Canadian researcher’s breakthrough could have saved thousands of lives.

The handover of municipal services to military officers makes clear how the president wants to wield power.

Domestic racism has long impacted U.S. foreign policy. It’s time to open up about it.

A spate of killings in Nigeria under lockdown has produced little but hashtag activism.

The sudden death of the outgoing president, the coronavirus pandemic, and an ailing economy mean that wide-ranging reforms are needed more than ever.

Americans have long worked abroad to promote democratic practices and institutions. Now, more than ever, those lessons must be applied at home.

Increased militarization on the continent under Trump is part of a long history of institutionalized racism in U.S. foreign policy.

The coronavirus has shut down large-scale treatment and prevention programs around the globe, which could send malaria deaths skyrocketing this year.

A swift government response has kept the coronavirus at bay, for now, but stark inequalities, heavy-handed security forces, and racist rhetoric are threatening the country’s hard-won unity.

Children are at the center of the Central African Republic’s efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic—and to break the country’s cycles of violence.

In highly unusual move, U.S. diplomats in Uganda and Kenya issue public pronouncements expressing distress over the death of George Floyd.

With frustration rising over haphazard responses to the coronavirus, community networks are filling the void across the continent.