People in the region were glued to the rescue effort on television and online, eager for some good news at a time when many have been buffeted by Covid pandemic gloom.
After a brazen assault on a displaced persons camp that killed about 60 people, the most seriously wounded were airlifted to a hospital where a Times photographer recorded their accounts.
In “Lingui, the Sacred Bonds,” the director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun works again with Achouackh Abakar Souleymane, this time on a wrenching drama about abortion.
The attack, which was carried out with guns and machetes, was among the worst recorded in eastern Congo, a lush region where dozens of militant groups have wreaked havoc for years.
The small coastal country in West Africa has experienced four coups and at least a dozen attempted takeovers since it gained independence from Portugal nearly 50 years ago.
To find the faithful, preachers in some areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo hold church where the crowds are, on boats traveling the country’s water highway.
A new radio-wave image of the center of our galaxy reveals all the forms of frenzy that a hundred million or so stars can get up to.
A new radio-wave image of the center of our galaxy reveals all the forms of frenzy that a hundred million or so stars can get up to.
Plagued by plastic pollution, Senegal wants to replace pickers at the garbage dump with a formal recycling system that takes advantage of the new market for plastics.
Burkina Faso this week joined a list of countries that have recently experienced military takeovers — most plagued by insecurity, poor governance and frustrated youth. But there’s no one-size-fits-all explanation.
Fed up with the failure of their government, and France, to stop the violence caused by militants, some citizens now call for Russia to intervene.
One of South Africa’s most lauded police officials, he investigated crimes by the authorities and dug into cold cases from the days of white nationalist rule.
Witnesses said the stadium stewards closed the gates and stopped allowing people in, setting off the crush.
Mutinous officers said the public was fed up with President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré because of his inability to stop attacks by Islamist militants.
It suspended the Constitution and ousted the country’s democratically elected president hours after mutinous soldiers surrounded his home.
By playing a variety of recordings of “wheeze honks” to pods of hippopotamuses, researchers began to decipher how the animals communicate with one another.
By playing a variety of recordings of “wheeze honks” to pods of hippopotamuses, researchers began to decipher how the animals communicate with one another.
The government denied rumors of a coup, but soldiers who want changes to the campaign against Islamists appear to have taken control of several military bases.
The blaze was caused by explosions from fireworks used in the venue, the government said in a statement reported by news agencies.
The lions caught the coronavirus from their handlers and showed severe symptoms. An outbreak among big cats in nature preserves could be hard to contain, researchers said.
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