The police said they were searching for three assailants who opened fire, shooting 25 people. A 3-year-old boy was among the dead, while 13 survivors were being treated in the hospital.
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The white descendants of Europeans who colonized the country are getting greater access to American officials this year, both in Washington and in Pretoria.
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President Trump presided over a Congo-Rwanda peace deal on the same day his administration was being questioned about potential war crimes.
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The president trumpeted a peace pact in a meeting with the two countries’ leaders that includes incentives for U.S. access to minerals. Fighting in eastern Congo has continued in the months since an earlier agreement.
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By Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Saikou Jammeh and Ruth Maclean
President William Ruto faces pressure after a Times investigation showed that his government downplayed or ignored the mistreatment of women working in Saudi Arabia.
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The sentencing of Ayachi Hammami, a prominent human rights lawyer, was the latest sign of Tunisia’s backsliding into authoritarianism, say rights groups.
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For generations of Algerians, the fierce independence of her persona reflected their struggles in a country torn by civil war and repression.
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The South African government is investigating how more than a dozen men unwittingly ended up on the front line in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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The opposition has accused the president of putting a general in charge of the government so that he could stay in power and lead by proxy.
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The military announced on Wednesday it had taken over the West African nation. Later, the opposition leader accused the incumbent president of staging the coup d’état to try to retain power.
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Police statistics in South Africa dispute President Trump’s claim that Afrikaners are being targeted in a genocide, but the high murder rate includes victims of all backgrounds. John Eligon, our Johannesburg bureau chief, traveled with several patrol groups in communities of South Africa to explore how the country is dealing with crime.
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By John Eligon, Joao Silva, Christina Thornell, Leila Medina and James Surdam
Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry.
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Recycling lead for U.S. car batteries is poisoning children — and we know because we tested them. Will Fitzgibbon, a reporter at The Examination, describes how children in Nigeria developed lead levels associated with lifelong brain damage, and how factory workers told us they were coughing up black dust.
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By Will Fitzgibbon, Peter S. Goodman, Melanie Bencosme, Jon Miller, Laura Salaberry, Rebecca Suner and Finbarr O’Reilly
