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What Is M23, the Rwandan-Backed Group Fighting in Eastern Congo? The militia seized the pivotal city of Goma, threatening a new humanitarian crisis in a region that has suffered decades of fighting nytimes.com/2025/01/28/wor… by Elian Peltier

U.S. Citizens Advised to Evacuate Congo Amid Attacks on Embassies Many blame the United States, France and other allies for allowing neighboring Rwanda to fuel a conflict in the country’s east. nytimes.com/2025/01/28/wor… Elian Peltier

Three Countries Officially Quit Major West African ECOWAS Alliance Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused the bloc of having double standards in punishing their military juntas. Negotiations failed to change their minds #ECOWAS #Mali #Niger #Burkina nytimes.com/2025/01/29/wor… by

One Lake, Two Worlds: Jet-Skis in Rwanda. Bodies Ashore in Congo. nytimes.com/2025/02/19/wor… On one side of the lake, lovers glide on canoes, friends ride jet-skis and families pose for pictures in the hazy sunset. On the other side, less than two miles away, dead bodies washed

Why Congo’s Vast Army Is Struggling to Fight a Far Smaller Militia nytimes.com/2025/03/02/wor… The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse - by Ruth Maclean #Goma #M23

The United States spent decades responding to conflicts and disease in Africa. The continent is now expected to be the hardest hit by the Trump administration’s aid cuts. nytimes.com/2025/03/08/wor…

A military officer who seized power but promised to step down is expected to win the presidential vote on Saturday. nytimes.com/2025/04/12/wor…

While the Democratic Republic of Congo reels from a new rebel offensive in the east, its capital in the west, Kinshasa, grapples with deadly floods nytimes.com/2025/04/08/wor…

Strawberries Aren’t Ripe for Africa? His Farms Disprove That, Deliciously” nytimes.com/2025/04/20/wor… Thierno Agne left behind studying law to grow strawberries, a shocking move in Senegal, where farming is considered work for the old, poor and uneducated. His success is making

Congo Reverses Course and Agrees to Cease ‘Hostilities’ With M23 Felix Tshisekedi of Congo had long said his country would not negotiate with the Rwanda-backed militia, making the joint agreement a rare bright spot in the conflict nytimes.com/2025/04/24/wor… Ruth Maclean with

Could the Next Pope Be From Africa? About a fifth of Africa’s population, roughly 280 million people, are Catholic. Nearly a fifth of all Catholics are Africans, and that balance is changing: According to the Vatican, more than half of the 13 million people who joined the church

Ghana Wanted a Cathedral. It Got an ‘Expensive Hole’ Instead. The nation had grand plans for a national cathedral designed by a celebrity architect. The $400 million project became a political battleground. nytimes.com/2025/05/03/wor… Media Foundation for West Africa Caroline

She Survived Genital Cutting, Then Shared Her Reconstruction on TikTok Shamsa Sharawe made her name campaigning against female genital cutting. Then she heard about surgery to rebuild what had been taken from her. nytimes.com/2025/06/02/wor… an FGM story like you've read one before

Trump Targets Key Lifeline for Africa: Money Sent Home by Immigrants. After slashing foreign assistance and introducing steep tariffs, the Trump administration is proposing a new tax on remittances. African nations would be among the hardest hit...by Saikou Jammeh and Ruth Maclean

What did the nations of Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia, the Republic of Congo and Sudan have in common, until they were all put on President Trump’s travel ban list Wednesday night? They are all African countries! nytimes.com/2025/06/05/us/… ...an analysis by

Mpox Surges in Sierra Leone as Health Officials Appeal for U.S. Support West African nations are struggling to track and treat infections, and experts warn the outbreak is rapidly spreading, while the United States is cutting global vaccination efforts...by Saikou Jammeh

Foday Musa Suso, 75, Dies; Ambitious Ambassador for West African Music A #Gambian master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition. nytimes.com/2025/06/13/art…

Power outages happening in #Dakar more often now or it is normal - that I am still a JJC. I don't really miss my Power Bank and UPS or USPs in #Gambia, but at this rate, it'll be safe/wise to get them. So, if you're coming from #Gambia anytime soon to #Senegal, please let me

The administration is aiming to strike deals to expand the United States’ access to critical minerals and to counter China’s rising influence in Africa. by Ruth Maclean & Zolan Kanno-Youngs, and Saikou Jammeh contributed to reporting from #Dakar. nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/…

A former military strongman, he won one democratic election in 2015, and another in 2019, but struggled to make good on promises to tackle corruption and terrorism by Ruth Maclean and #AlanCowell, with contributions from Saikou Jammeh, Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Ismail Auwal