Africa

Kenya has strict rules about displaying the flag. But some people have been wearing and waving them, and draping them on coffins, as a symbol of resistance.

By Abdi Latif Dahir

Accused of blocking food aid for its starving people, Sudan’s military announced it would reopen the main border crossing with Chad, which it had closed for six months to U.N. relief trucks.

By Declan Walsh

In his posts atop the governing bodies for African and global soccer, he fought to establish the continent as an equal to Europe and South America.

By Alex Williams

The virus is evolving, and the newest version spreads more often through heterosexual populations. Sweden reported the first case outside Africa.

By Apoorva Mandavilli

The World Health Organization declared a global health emergency over an outbreak that has spread to more than a dozen African countries.

By Eve Sampson

The epidemic is concentrated in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the virus has now appeared in a dozen other African countries.

By Apoorva Mandavilli

The American-backed talks in Switzerland, which started on Wednesday, aim to halt a catastrophic civil war. But only one side has turned up.

By Declan Walsh

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.

By Abdi Latif Dahir

Weeks after an international police force began arriving to take on gangs, armed groups are redirecting their campaign of terror outside the capital.

By David C. Adams and Andre Paultre

Hundreds of students from Venezuela, Afghanistan, Israel and elsewhere converged at Carnegie Hall, using music to cope in a time of strife and unrest.

By Javier C. Hernández and Graham Dickie