Deadliest Cholera Outbreak in Past Decade Hits Southern Africa
The waterborne disease has killed more than 4,000 people in seven countries over the past two years. Experts blame severe storms, a lack of vaccines, and poor water and sewer systems.
The waterborne disease has killed more than 4,000 people in seven countries over the past two years. Experts blame severe storms, a lack of vaccines, and poor water and sewer systems.
This year’s Africa Cup of Nations, like several previous editions, played out in Chinese-built arenas. It will end with familiar questions about their legacy.
The “Aya” series explores the pains and pleasures of everyday life in a working-class neighborhood in West Africa.
A mundane contractual provision met with rampant corruption — revealing a serious vulnerability in one of the backbones of international commerce.
From onsens in Japan to high-altitude pools in Bolivia, the photographer Greta Rybus shares highlights from her search for thermal waters.
A project to restore granite blocks that once covered a greater portion of the Pyramid of Menkaure in Giza has been criticized by some preservationists.
While waiting for a court to decide whether Nelson Mandela’s belongings are considered national heritage, Guernsey’s said it had become clear that a sale would be “difficult.”
What paleontologists long believed were long spines on the aptly named Alienacanthus turn out to be an extended lower jaw.
Six years after he was forced from office, former President Jacob Zuma, who still has a loyal following, is campaigning for opponents of the party he once led, the African National Congress.
In the 1990s, he oversaw troops that committed a host of atrocities against equally brutal Islamist rebels in what became known as the Black Decade.