Hailing from a small, rural province, Mr. Mabuza had a remarkable rise to national power. But much of it came crashing down amid corruption allegations.

A medical doctor and former nun, she found an affordable way to expand palliative care in the developing world, bringing pain relief to poor, terminally ill patients.

The conviction of Boualem Sansal, an outspoken French and Algerian writer, has worsened tensions between the countries.

The burial site of Edgar Lungu, Zambia’s former president, has become the latest conflict in a relationship marred by hostility

The Emirati vice president is best known as the owner of a top British soccer team. Behind the scenes, he has been described as the “handler” guiding his country’s secret foreign wars.

He was a pioneering figure in Black British art whose rebellious, symbol-rich images explored race, queerness, desire and spirituality.

President Trump claims credit for the outcome. The main question now is how the treaty will be implemented as fighting still rages in eastern Congo.

Susan Namangale fell in love with the game at age 9 in her small village, and she’s now on a mission to deliver a message to the whole country: Chess is good for everyone.

Thousands demonstrated on Wednesday to express their anger over government corruption and police brutality.

In a video address, the health secretary said the United States would no longer donate to Gavi, the vaccine agency. The organization rejected his claims.

The police fired tear gas at demonstrators who were expressing anger at the government over growing economic hardship and a lack of accountability for killings at earlier rallies.

A new drug that gives almost complete protection against the virus was to be administered across Africa this year. Now, much of the funding for that effort is gone.

The administration is pushing nations around the world, including ones at war, to take people expelled by the U.S. government who are not citizens of those countries.

The administration has gutted agencies like U.S.A.I.D., and President Trump has denigrated their work as wasteful and rife with fraud. His views on humanitarian assistance have seesawed since he entered political life.

The ruling applies immediately to a group of men the government has sought to send to South Sudan.

The State Department is restarting the processing of visa applications from students and visiting scholars, but is screening for “hostility” toward the United States.

The drug could change the course of the AIDS epidemic. But the Trump administration has gutted the programs that might have paid for it in low-income countries.

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.

The budget cuts threaten global progress on everything from heart disease to H.I.V. — and could affect American drug companies, too.

Video from a national park in Uganda depicted a parade of predatory species feeding on and dispersing fruit bats that are known natural reservoirs of infectious diseases.