Kizza Besigye, a former presidential candidate, went missing over the weekend as he visited the Kenyan capital, reappearing days later in military custody back in Uganda.

Three executives of the Australian company Resolute Mining were arrested this month. Mali, a major African gold producer, has been trying to increase its share of mining profits lately.

The unidentified patient had recently returned from Africa, where the virus has caused a deadly epidemic, health officials said.

The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights advocates and community leaders call the tactics inhumane.

The resilient species — which regrow after wildfires — are said to capture the spirit of a nation reborn.

An embattled leader for decades in Niger’s rough-and-tumble politics, he alternated stints in high office with prison and exile.

Donald J. Trump has said he would transform America’s relationship with both allies and adversaries. Notably, he has pledged to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, increase tariffs and deport millions.

Dozens of teenagers had been accused of treason and faced possible death sentences, but indignation over their treatment, including lack of food, has the government backpedaling.

The epidemic in Africa continues to grow, prompting fears of another outbreak in the U.S. But the vaccine is no longer free, and vulnerable people are going without.

Political parties that have governed for decades since African countries overthrew colonial rulers are now being challenged by frustrated young voters.

The Russian mercenary group operated with little pushback in the West African nation — until it launched one of its most ambitious missions.

After nearly 60 years, the Botswana Democratic Party lost its majority in Parliament, becoming the latest long-dominant party in southern Africa to fall from power.

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school.

The party that has governed the country since 1966 could lose power as the economy struggles from a slump in demand for diamonds, which made Botswana an African success story.

Since the documentary’s cameras stopped rolling, plans for a new museum to showcase the treasures have stalled, and the artifacts are once again off limits to the public in Benin.

After a recent dam disaster, Nigerian officials blamed God, climate change and poor people. But experts had warned the dam was at risk well before it collapsed. The officials did nothing.

Paramilitary forces ransacked villages and killed hundreds of people, activists said, hastening calls for the United Nations to deploy a mission to protect civilians.

Mati Diop examines the fate of 26 treasures — sometimes from their point of view — looted from Benin in 1892.

One of West Africa’s most tolerant societies has recently seen a string of assaults on L.G.B.T.Q. people after several social media influencers exhorted their followers to “hunt” gay men.

Climate change, civil conflict and growing resistance to insecticides and treatments are all contributing to an alarming spread of cases.