Africa

Numerous banks and multinationals have hands in shady deals with the new nation’s elites and warlords.

Africa has the world’s youngest population and its oldest leaders. If the next generation wants change, young Africans must abandon dreams of private-sector success and enter the political arena.

Those who arrived to study in an unrecognized territory are finding they are their own best advocates.

The countries’ leaders both promised change, but only one has delivered.

He led Zimbabwe to independence—and looted it until the day he died.

Reemphasizing fundamental rights is the best way to keep them universal.

With more strategic investments, Japan may hold a key to sustainable development on the continent.

The country’s vaccinators have overcome distrust, misinformation, and an insurgency to reach this point, but they can’t stop yet.

The idea of development assistance is under attack in western democracies. Pursuing economic justice at home and abroad, launching a new freedom agenda, and framing aid as innovation rather than charity can help end the backlash.

Beijing’s infrastructure projects may grab headlines, but its efforts to shape the media are more dangerous.

Accused of atrocities, Cameroon is only the latest to jump in, employing a firm that just brought on Donald Trump’s former acting attorney general.

Sudan’s protesters wanted to overthrow their president and his regime. They were only half-successful.

Robert Mugabe seized white-owned farms. Emmerson Mnangagwa is reversing course—but a halfhearted land reform effort won’t solve the country’s economic woes.

When accessing basic services, more than 1 in 4 people are still being squeezed for bribes.

With the rise of Hemeti, Sudanese politics has been turned on its head.

Top general brokers a multimillion-dollar deal with a Canadian firm and hosts a former U.S. congressman.

Europe’s failure to help refugees in Libya is driving them across the Atlantic.

After high-level assassinations, the country may still be in danger, says Human Rights Watch expert Felix Horne.

South Sudan was born amid great hope but has since descended into war. It will take a new generation of leaders to make it a successful state.