Since its independence in 2011, South Sudan has maintained English as its sole official language to distinguish itself ...

In that rainy, quaint town in northern Tanzania, there came moments when I relearned the meaning of the Quranic verse "Indeed, with hardship comes ease" (Quran-94:5). In November 2024, my mother and I ...

And so, I have been learning to catch kindness in the paths I cross and the people I meet, the same way a swimmer lifts her ...

South Sudan’s National Security Service (NSS) arrested and detained three relatives of Europe-based government critic ...

It had been an urban center in the ancient empire of Kush, which dominated the Nile Valley off and on for over 2,000 years, from 2000 B.C.E. to 350 C.E. I was far from alone in admiring the ruins – ...

The World Bank has dispatched staff and resources to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to respond to the Ebola outbreak, and is putting together a financing package.

Prehistoric rock art site in northeast Zimbabwe showing a variety of large animals including elephant and rhino. Image ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with the musician Dua Saleh about how they channeled the trauma and grief of their childhood in East Africa into music, for their new album Of Earth & Wires.

At the Jaipur Literature Festival, the author, who was among the 428 activists on the Gaza aid flotilla detained and ...

In celebration of International Museum Day 2026 under the global theme “Museums Uniting a Divided World,” the UNESCO Regional ...

It is the current security map of the Sahel, compiled from open-source intelligence platforms and conflict-monitoring ...

Australia’s diplomacy should be grounded in strategic balance and principle, not performative outrage calibrated for activist approval. Condemning Israel over a deliberately provocative flotilla while ...