A New York Times reporter joined a group of cyclists on a route meant to break down Cape Town’s lingering racial and economic barriers.

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.

People in Costa Rica and other Latin American, Asian and African countries are increasingly buying electric vehicles to avoid spiking fuel prices.

Amnesty International said about 1,500 people have been detained by the military for three months and that many of those who have died from disease and starvation have been children.

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.

Koyo Kouoh, who died of cancer at 57, was just months into her dream job overseeing the Venice Biennale’s centerpiece exhibition. But she left a plan that her assistants have tried to realize.

Coordinated attacks signified a major escalation of insurgent violence in a region of West Africa where military leaders had seized power and warmed to Moscow in recent years.

The London Marathon winner’s achievement has resonated nowhere more than in Kenya’s Rift Valley, which has yielded many champions.

The death of the minister, Gen. Sadio Camara, a central figure in the country’s military government, comes amid escalating violence in the region.

The armed group JNIM claimed to have seized two key cities and destroyed the defense minister’s residence in a coordinated offensive that experts said was a major escalation in yearslong hostilities.

Ernie Dosio, 75, of Lodi, Calif., was hunting a species of antelope in the dense forests of Gabon when his hunting party stumbled on a small herd of female elephants with calves.

A once-robust H.I.V. treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble.

The decision, in a country where thousands of women die yearly from unsafe abortions, held that abortions deprive unborn children of the “right to life.”

The ship, which carried fuel and natural gas, has been adrift for weeks in the Mediterranean Sea after a drone attack, alarming officials who fear an environmental disaster.

The findings in a new report by a commission appointed by the government were at odds with details from human rights groups, which estimate that hundreds and possibly thousands of people were killed.

“Life is not defined solely by one’s mistakes,” the pope told inmates being held in a port city of Equatorial Guinea.

As the pontiff arrives in the tiny authoritarian nation of Equatorial Guinea, some Catholics in Africa say they are excited about his visit but are feeling a little left out.

The group is accused of a failed coup attempt in October.

Pope Leo responded directly on Monday to a presidential attack. But since then, he said, some of his statements during his Africa trip have been misconstrued.