Seven nonnative species reached the United States by latching on to travelers, a study by researchers in Connecticut shows, offering clues about how ticks spread in a warming world.

A basketball academy that offers young people a lifeline and a chance to dream is hanging on in the Congolese city of Goma, despite years of war and the chaos and violence that have followed a rebel takeover.

Hind Meddeb followed young people in Khartoum, focusing on their hopes and fears to create a kind of living record of history.

Asher Watkins, a real estate executive from Texas, was tracking a Cape buffalo in South Africa when he was attacked, a safari company said.

Slapped with a steep tariff, South African officials hope for a deal, but some worry the U.S. may insist that it roll back measures that redress the damage of apartheid.

The helicopter had taken off from Accra, the capital, en route to a mining conference when it went “off the radar,” the armed forces said.

The British regulator found no evidence to support the claims made by the charity’s chair, but it criticized all sides for letting the fight play out publicly.

An effort to have a statue of Marcel Bigeard removed has reignited the debate over how the colonial past should be remembered.

Since the Sudanese Army drove its paramilitary rival from the capital in March, the two sides are battling for territorial gains in the Kordofan region.

The country is the latest African nation to agree to take in migrants from the United States.

The closure of a factory in the small southern African nation of Lesotho is an early effect of the global disruption caused by President Trump’s tariffs. John Eligon, the Johannesburg bureau chief for The New York Times, talks with Katrin Bennhold, a senior writer, about what he has seen there.

The president backed off his call for a 50 percent tariff on Lesotho, imposing 15 percent instead. But in a country where most people live hand-to-mouth, the damage was already done.

Outraged residents took to the streets of the southern African nation when a taxi strike descended into chaos.

In the past week alone, three new countries have said they are ready to bestow recognition on a Palestinian state.

Eight people were reported dead after Ugandan soldiers crossed the border into South Sudan and skirmished with troops there.

Officials acknowledge that Kenya has a doping problem, but many athletes who are seeking an edge also want a way out of poverty.

The attack raised questions about diplomatic efforts to end the conflict in the Central African country.

The move by a paramilitary-led coalition may make it even harder for the African country to hold together.

He funneled cash and weapons to the Irish Republican Army from Libya, and was involved in bombings that targeted Margaret Thatcher and others, killing scores of people.

A London auction house says there is “no documented evidence” that an intricately carved grasshopper is from the boy king’s tomb. Its estimated price is up to $675,000.