Matthew Mpoke Bigg

Hunger and conflict are on the minds of the residents of Akobo, where an outbreak could have devastating consequences.

The State Department said it would fund up to 50 clinics in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. “I don’t know the ones they are talking about,” a top Ugandan official said.

To some Africans, the claim that the continent’s largest health agency had already bungled its response scratched a familiar wound.

Plus, inside the closed-door talks over Greenland.

Dozens of deaths and hundreds of infections are suspected, an African agency said. Health experts were alarmed that the outbreak hadn’t been announced sooner.

The French president visited Kenya this week for a summit designed to build stronger ties with Anglophone African countries.

A growing number of men across the continent say they are being promised jobs in Russia, only to be forced into the war. Some go as mercenaries, but many more are drawn unwittingly.

Some see a clear explanation: Russia needs more troops, and young men in Africa desperately need jobs.

Despite the fragile cease-fire in the Middle East, many Africans say they are bracing for tougher times ahead and making difficult decisions about the future.

Some theologians say the pontiff’s understanding of Augustine’s teachings helped inform his response to President Trump’s negative comments about him.

Remembering the African leader after a Brussels court this week ordered a retired Belgian diplomat stand trial for his 1961 assassination.

At once, Mahmood Mamdani’s fame was eclipsed by his son’s. At the same time, the election of Zohran Mamdani has attracted new interest in his father’s work.

Both sides have moved troops toward their shared border, while Ethiopia has accused Eritrea of occupying part of its territory.

Rwanda’s government responded by claiming the sanctions unjustly targeted only one party to the conflict and misrepresented the facts.