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.

Experts who monitor global hunger rarely make an official declaration of famine, but they just sounded the alarm for more than half a million people who have fled the fighting in Sudan’s civil war.

The International Botanical Congress voted to change a scientific name belonging to hundreds of plant species because it was offensive in southern Africa.

The West African country’s former military leader and some of his top aides were found guilty of crimes against humanity for mass murder and rapes committed during and after a pro-democracy demonstration in 2009.

For 15 months, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has been leading a war for control of the country against his rival, Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan, the head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

A bitter fight with the French gymnastics federation threatened the Olympic hopes of Kaylia Nemour. Dual nationality offered a way out.

War, famine and floods have beleaguered the world’s youngest nation. The arrival of its men’s basketball team at the Paris Olympics is set to offer a modicum of hope.