The Arab-led, American-supported coalition seeking to rout Houthi rebels in Yemen includes a leader indicted on charges of war crimes and vilified by Washington for more than a decade: President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan.
Federal authorities arrested the 22-year-old man at a Chicago-area airport, saying he was also helping plan an attack on an American military base.
The patient, a street vendor who lived in a one-bathroom house shared with 52 others in a Monrovia suburb, had sold food last week at a school where more than 1,900 students are enrolled.
The prime minister said the officials, including the capital’s police chief, were fired for security failures brought to light after gunmen shot dead 20 foreign tourists.
Tunisia hunted for a third man suspected in last week’s deadly museum attack, as relatives of one gunman expressed shock at his involvement.
The spokesman said Ms. Sabbagh, a poet and activist hit with a blast of birdshot from a police shotgun during a march to Tahrir Square in Cairo, would have lived if she had not been so slender.
While the disease has not been eliminated, aid groups take stock of what worked and didn’t, and continue to point fingers.
Months of declining cases have fed hopes that the Ebola outbreak might finally be ending.
University of Cape Town students are right to demand the removal of a statue honoring colonialism’s great exemplar.
The government has delayed the vote once. It must not be allowed to do so again.
While the world was watching the funeral of Nelson Mandela, Jerome Delay made it his mission to remain in the violence-wracked Central African Republic, hoping to shed light on the crisis there.
More than a week after militants killed scores of people in the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya, investigators sought clues to the attack. These are among the first pictures to emerge from inside the mall since the investigation began.
Mr. Mandela’s quest for freedom in South Africa’s system of white rule took him from the court of tribal royalty to the liberation underground to a prison cell to the presidency.
Articles and multimedia in this series explore how the surge of poaching in Africa both feeds off and fuels instability on the continent.
Mali has been in turmoil since 2012, as events there and in Algeria raised the possibility of drawing an increasing number of foreign countries into direct involvement. Below, a timeline of the two crises.
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