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Drought and regional conflict has made millions of East Africans food insecure. NPR's Michel Martin asks Michael Dunford about the World Food Programme's work to deliver Ukrainian grain to the region.

A decade ago, Botswana was facing a national crisis as AIDS appeared on the verge of decimating the country's adult population. Now, the country provides free, life-saving AIDS drugs to almost all of its citizens who need them.

Nigeria has a new president-elect after a rancorous and sometimes violent election cycle in Africa's largest democracy. Bola Ahmed Tinubu is set to be sworn in this May.

British artist Brian Catling's fiction debut, about a mysterious forest in an alternate-universe Africa, is finally in the U.S. Reviewer Jason Heller calls it an "eye-gouging, mind-bending spectacle."

Conflicts are escalating across the Middle East, Europe and Africa as world leaders gather in New York for the annual United Nations General Assembly high level debate.

The plays of William Shakespeare are known for their enduring universality, so the Royal Shakespeare Company's new production of Julius Caesar -- set in a chaotic African dictatorship, with an all-black cast — makes a certain sense.

As a new year begins, a hike up Africa's highest peak is a reminder that slowing down is sometimes the key to success.

Charities often debate how the subjects of their fundraising ads are portrayed — but those discussions rarely include the people in the pictures.

African leaders backed by the U.S. and France have given a week for coup leaders in Niger to step down and restore the democratically elected president.

The mine has been the scene of a tense standoff between police and miners since authorities launched an operation to force the miners out by cutting off food and water from the surface.