An evangelical pastor in Kenya ordered his flock to shun education and medicine and starve their children to death in order to meet Jesus, witnesses in a manslaughter trial said.

Kenya has strict rules about displaying the flag. But some people have been wearing and waving them, and draping them on coffins, as a symbol of resistance.

Accused of blocking food aid for its starving people, Sudan’s military announced it would reopen the main border crossing with Chad, which it had closed for six months to U.N. relief trucks.

In his posts atop the governing bodies for African and global soccer, he fought to establish the continent as an equal to Europe and South America.

The virus is evolving, and the newest version spreads more often through heterosexual populations. But the vaccines should still work.

The World Health Organization declared a global health emergency over an outbreak that has spread to more than a dozen African countries.

The World Health Organization declared a global health emergency over an outbreak that has spread to more than a dozen African countries.

The epidemic is concentrated in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the virus has now appeared in a dozen other African countries.

The American-backed talks in Switzerland, starting on Wednesday, aim to halt a catastrophic civil war. But only one side says it will turn up.

The clampdown came after the police banned a youth rally and pointed to the anti-government protests that have swept neighboring Kenya in recent months.

Weeks after an international police force began arriving to take on gangs, armed groups are redirecting their campaign of terror outside the capital.

Hundreds of students from Venezuela, Afghanistan, Israel and elsewhere converged at Carnegie Hall, using music to cope in a time of strife and unrest.

As the conflict in Sudan rages on, an elusive mountain army has built its own state within a state — a vision of what the nation could become.

Her career began during apartheid and outlived it, reaching a personal milestone in a blockbuster movie and its sequel.

Imane Khelif, of Algeria, moved past questions about her eligibility with a unanimous decision over her Thai opponent. She will now fight for a gold medal.

Relations between the two countries soured after a coup last year. Now the United States is scrambling to find new security partners.

Imane Khelif advanced to the semifinals, ensuring she will leave the Paris Games with at least a bronze medal.

Gunmen and a suicide bomber struck at a popular seafront area in one of the deadliest such assaults in the country in months. The Islamist militant group Al Shabab claimed responsibility.

The Justice Department and special counsel Robert Mueller investigated whether a Trump adviser was part of an Egyptian plan, never proven, to funnel $10 million to the 2016 Trump campaign.

Thousands turned out across Africa’s most populous country despite government attempts to prevent them. Demonstrations have left at least 13 people dead, Amnesty International says.