A study found that loan officers in Uganda, where information is scarce, were more likely to offer credit to heavier-looking people.

Supporters and party officials from the All Peoples’ Congress were sifting through polling data from the presidential vote when the military surrounded party headquarters.

In Saturday’s vote, President Julius Maada Bio is seeking a second five-year term to pursue an ambitious if unfulfilled education initiative, while the country is facing a crippling economic crisis.

The medina, the ancient neighborhood where this Moroccan city was born, offers sensory stimulation at every turn.

It was one of the worst terrorist acts to hit the nation in decades, as militants burned down dormitories with students still inside and hacked others to death.

The authorities say the attack, one of the deadliest to hit the landlocked nation in years, was carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces, an extremist group operating in neighboring Congo.

Thanasis Pagoulatos led the family business, Khartoum’s oldest inn, through decades of tumult. Sudan’s latest breakdown proved too much.

The United Nations blamed Sudanese paramilitaries for the death of the governor of West Darfur, Khamis Abdullah Abakar. Sudan’s war has destabilized a fragile western region devastated by genocide in the early 2000s.

Dozens of members rescued from a church whose pastor is accused of telling followers to starve themselves appeared in court. A judge sent them to rehab rather than jail to await another hearing.

The disaster is the deadliest such episode off the country’s shores since the 2015 migrant crisis, and there were fears that the toll would rise. The cause was not immediately clear.

The boat capsized on the Niger River at night, when many passengers were returning from a wedding party.

South Africa is accused of helping supply Russia with weapons for the Ukraine war, a charge that South Africa denies.

The attack was attributed to a group that the United Nations says has killed hundreds of civilians in the region and forced thousands to flee.

After several protesters were killed by live ammunition this month in Senegal, many in the usually stable West African nation wonder what comes next.

A previously unexploded mortar shell went off as children were playing around it in a city in southern Somalia.

American officials say they uncovered a countrywide scheme to divert food aid to “military units,” in a country where 20 million people rely on donated relief.

The decision to fund medications to treat H.I.V.-AIDS patients in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean flew in the face of expert advice. But the U.S. did it anyway.

Judges at a special U.N. tribunal said they would create a procedure to allow them to hear evidence in the case against Félicien Kabuga, who has dementia, without the possibility of a conviction.

Hundreds have been killed in the western Darfur region since the nationwide conflict in Sudan began, raising fears of protracted warfare in an area already torn by decades of genocidal violence.

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