Education

Every school day, Abdirizack Hussein Bashir rises at dawn for an eight-kilometer (five-mile) trek through a dangerous forest where he sometimes faces harassment by Kenyan army patrols hunting down extremists. Now the 12-year-old’s dream to become a doctor is threatened. Attacks by the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab...

Sierra Leone’s Supreme Court on Monday approved the election commission’s request to delay Tuesday’s runoff presidential vote until the weekend after the lifting of an interim injunction that had stalled preparations. The commission applied for more time once the West African nation’s high court vacated the...

Nigeria’s president on Friday welcomed more than 100 schoolgirls who were released by Boko Haram Wednesday after being kidnapped last month. The girls, wearing hijabs, were served a meal and posed for a photograph with President Muhammadu Buhari, who promised his government would beef up security around vulnerable...

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir met his Egyptian counterpart in Cairo on Monday, as the two countries look to repair ties that were recently frayed over an upstream Nile dam being built by Ethiopia. At a joint press conference, al-Bashir and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi vowed to cooperate in managing...

South Sudan has suspended a United Nations radio station for allegedly refusing to comply with the country’s media laws, although the station has not yet been taken off the air. On Friday, the Media Authority, an independent body charged with regulating journalistic practices in the country, said it was shutting...

Egyptian prosecutors have ordered the detention of two journalists for 15 days pending an investigation after their arrest while preparing a report on the historic Alexandria tramway. Defense attorney Mohammed Hafez said Friday’s decision regarding free-lance journalists May al-Sabbagh and Ahmed Moustafa came...

Mysterious deaths of foreigners and locals are stoking fears in Uganda about crime amid an ongoing feud among the country’s security agencies, and now the president is weighing in. In the past month four Europeans have been found dead in the East African country. Police say a Finn and a Swede whose bodies were...

Nigeria’s security forces have been ordered to defend all schools in “liberated areas” of the country’s northeast to avoid further mass abductions from schools by Boko Haram extremists, the president’s office announced Wednesday. Many in Africa’s most populous country have been outraged by the kidnapping of 110...

Thousands of people in Zimbabwe gathered on Tuesday for the burial of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, whose death from cancer exacerbated divisions within a movement preparing for elections just months away. A hearse carrying Tsvangirai’s body in a white casket drove slowly through the crowds to a school...