For decades after the identification of mpox in humans in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1970, the disease was largely confined to the rural areas of Central and West Africa and thus ...

A busy street in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia’s second-largest city. Africa has the wherewithal to fight malaria as a rural disease, but urban outbreaks threaten to put vastly more people at risk.Credit ...

A military coup this week in Niger, a land-locked former French colony, marked the 13th attempt − 10 of them successful − to overthrow a government in Africa since 2020, according to researchers.

“One thing Pope Francis did was to animate and empower young people in Africa, and today Catholicism there is driven by youth who saw in Pope Francis something you didn’t often see,” he said.

But as the Pentagon resolves to keep approximately 1,100 troops in place in Niger and boost U.S. military presence in Africa, Nathaniel Powell, an analyst at the Oxford Analytica firm, argued that ...

A Tennessee pastor who was kidnapped at gunpoint from his church in South Africa just before Easter is speaking out about his experience — and the miracle that saved his life. Joshua Sullivan ...

There’s excitement bubbling in Kigali, Rwanda, ahead of the Global AI Summit on Africa, which opens today, promising economic opportunities and innovation. Not least because of last week’s ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.