South Africa

If Kim Jong Un follows in F.W. de Klerk’s footsteps, denuclearization could allow North Korea to move from pariah status to prosperity.

By keeping a key challenger in jail, Turkey’s government risks making Selahattin Demirtas an even more popular and formidable opponent.

South Africa’s ruling party has failed to redistribute land to the black majority for over two decades. Can the new president defuse a ticking time bomb?

Smoke and mirrors aside, the Israeli prime minister’s presentation was an endorsement of existing nuclear diplomacy with Tehran.

Cape Town is running out of water. Israel offers some lessons on how to avoid that fate.

South Africa's president weathered scandal after scandal while driving his country’s economy and reputation into the ground. His luck has finally run out.

As Cape Town counts down to Day Zero, South Africans worry about severe unrest and outbreaks of disease.

The newly elected leader of the African National Congress is being treated like a messiah. But he might not even win the next election.

Zimbabwe’s military didn’t topple the regime. It just restored the ruling party’s corrupt old guard to power.

The names of war

Gift Ngoepe was the first African-born player to make it to the big show. Major League Baseball is betting he won't be the last.

The opposition comes as close as it ever has to removing Jacob Zuma from office.

South Africa’s Teflon president has survived six attempts on his political life. Even if he survives a seventh, the damage to Africa’s most storied liberation movement is done.

For South Africa’s polygamist, scandal-plagued president, charisma isn’t enough anymore.

When they’re not smuggling ivory and rhino horn, Africa’s most notorious criminal syndicates are stealing farm animals to make a 2,500-year-old traditional Chinese remedy.

The Gupta family’s shadowy business empire is a symbol of all that’s wrong with South Africa.

The essential step to restoring faith in American democracy is authorizing an independent investigation into the president’s ties to the government of Russia.

President Jacob Zuma is toying with land expropriation policies that threaten the country's economy — and his own leadership.

Populists keep winning because the system really is rigged. Reversing the global tide of authoritarian nativism requires making legal systems work for everyone.

In yet another blow to South African President Jacob Zuma’s government.