Violence against journalists, long a threat and often a reality, has worsened as Uganda heads toward general elections in ...

In Uganda’s overcrowded camps, refugees survive on shrinking rations. But going home means walking back into war.

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TikTok videos and promises of big paydays have lured Nepali men to Ukraine's front lines — but many haven't come home. Now, ...

LAGOS, NIGERIA — Humulikheari Taiwo Jayeola had spent four decades working on grassroots political mobilization by the time she finally received the nomination in 2024 to be the Lagos state woman ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — A year ago, all 16 checkout lanes were packed at OK Zimbabwe supermarket in Harare, one of the major retailers in the country. Customers queued shoulder to shoulder, their carts ...

MASINDI, UGANDA — Less than half a kilometer from Aliyo Sarile’s tobacco farm, the wild frontier of Budongo Forest rises, a wall of emerald canopy and untamed vegetation marking a boundary. Each dawn, ...

LUBERO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO — Southern Lubero was once considered fertile territory — despite its poverty and political instability. Now, this onetime breadbasket faces famine, a brutal and ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — A political party card, not cash, got Alice Nasiyaya her first plot of land. In 2014, her brother-in-law tipped her off about a group that was distributing residential land in ...

Some subsistence farmers are down to one meal a day amid a one-two punch: a lack of rainfall, followed by the disappearance of regular food supplements due to shuttered US aid programs. HARARE, ...