Africa

The first election that Bassirou Diomaye Faye ever won was the one that just made…

With the concession of his main rival, a young political outsider backed by a powerful…

Dozens of Nigerian schoolchildren who were kidnapped this month have been released, officials said on…

She had badgered her friends and family to persuade them to vote for a major…

Uganda’s president, who has been in office for nearly four decades, has appointed his son…

In Senegal, the president tried to cancel an election. In Niger, a military coup d’état…

South Sudan has long been hit by climate change-exacerbated disasters like recurring droughts and floods.…

Paulin Hountondji, a philosopher from Benin whose critique of colonial-era anthropology helped transform African intellectual…

Why does this election matter? It should have been one of Africa’s more boring polls.…

Two opposition party politicians were released from jail in Senegal on Thursday night, just 10…