Africa

The violence is a blow to Zimbabweans who hoped for greater freedom of expression in the post-Mugabe era.

Africa isn’t just dealing with an outbreak anymore—and that’s bad news for everyone.

After decades of dictatorship, Gambia has launched a truth commission. But in a country where some victims were also perpetrators, delivering justice to all won’t be easy.

The country’s current protests include all sections of society—and may soon topple Omar al-Bashir’s entire regime.

South Africa and Angola have influence. They must use it to ensure that the Congolese government respects the will of voters.

Why South Africa’s formerly segregated townships are still central to its imagination.

The country will vote for a new government, and then brace for a violent aftermath.

Suspect’s death in prison suggests authorities might be suppressing evidence.

The Ethiopian prime minister’s opponents fear that he’s an African Erdogan. His rhetoric and policies suggest he’s more of a liberal democrat.

Responding to a Foreign Policy story, official says panel that probed the murder of two U.N. experts focused mainly on preventing future incidents.

A new study, four years in the making, details the secret global supply chain sidestepping international arms embargoes on South Sudan.

The U.N. concluded two of its investigators, an American and a Swede, were killed in a random ambush in Congo. But evidence suggests they may have walked into a government trap.

When the world’s newest country broke away from Khartoum, it discarded Sudan’s main official language, too. But casting aside the oppressor’s tongue did not heal the country’s divisions.

Pompeo has reversed his predecessor’s policy of eliminating special envoy posts.

The United States should stop listing Sudan as a state sponsor of terrorism, Sudanese foreign minister tells FP, as Khartoum seeks to boost its crumbling economy.

The Five Star Movement’s most prominent leftist, Alessandro Di Battista, is returning to politics, but don’t expect him to reverse the government’s anti-immigrant agenda.

As Pretoria prepares to confront the legacy of colonial and apartheid-era land theft, hardly anyone seems to care about the claims of the country’s earliest inhabitants—the Khoisan.

The world thought it knew how to deal with Ebola outbreaks—but it’s never dealt with one like this before.

Ghost offices on the small island provide legal but questionable means of siphoning tax dollars away from poor countries and into the pockets of the global elite.

Washington ramps up development finance to offer countries an alternative to Beijing’s deep pockets.