The Bundibugyo Ebola virus takes its name from this small town, where it was first discovered in 2007. Now, the species has returned to eastern Congo, halting life on a busy border.
There are a million people displaced by violence in the epicenter. They live in dangerous conditions and are fighting the virus with very little clean water.
As immigration surges in the country, activists are going to extreme lengths to expel foreign nationals, often taking the law into their own hands.
As the nation convulses with protests and violence, data and research suggest that some of the biggest arguments against foreigners don’t stand up against the facts.
A New York Times reporter’s quest to beat the personal best he set 14 years ago took him to a Kenyan village, where the biggest benefit he got was not what he expected.
The aid workers were on the frontline in the fight against the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and have shown no symptoms, their employer said.
The driver of the school bus, carrying dozens of students, lost control, officials said, causing the bus to veer off the road into a boulder.
The fire on Thursday morning at an orphanage near the nation’s capital killed 11 people, including children, and injured a dozen, the authorities said.
Two decades after the fall of apartheid in South Africa, he served briefly as Africa’s only white president.
The Trump administration said detaining Abdikerm Eidleh in Somalia was a turning point in the yearslong investigation. But nearly two weeks later, he still hasn’t been brought to the United States.
After watching Egypt lead for almost the entire match, a last-minute victory by Argentina has driven fans to tears and conspiracy theories.
A violent militia that controls large swaths of Congolese territory in the east may use the virus to try to bolster its authority.
The measure will allow the president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, to stay in office until 2030. Critics say the move tightens his autocratic grip on power and erodes the nation’s democracy.
In South Africa, where the Black majority was excluded from the economy for generations, the annual Durban July event is a chance to celebrate luxury and high society.
The tiny African nation was eliminated from the World Cup by one of soccer’s biggest powers, Argentina, but there was still plenty to celebrate.
The Central African nation remembers the end of a murderous campaign against ethnic Tutsis that killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Cape Verde, a tiny African archipelago, was thrilled to qualify for the World Cup, let alone take on the defending champions. But its fans feel confident.
Congo lost, 2-1, to England on Wednesday, after spending most of the game winning.
Safe interment is critical to containing the deadly disease, but in recent days around one Congolese town, that was not always being done.
Frontline Congolese workers who conduct safe burials are key to containing what experts fear could become the worst ever Ebola outbreak. They risk not just infection, but the anger of terrified communities.
