https://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/africa/index.html?partner=rss&emc=rss en-us Copyright 2018 The New York Times Company Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:03:30 GMT https://static01.nyt.com/images/misc/NYT_logo_rss_250x40.png https://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/africa/index.html?partner=rss&emc=rss https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/us/politics/guantanamo-detainees-repatriation-libya.html?partner=rss&emc=rss https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/us/politics/guantanamo-detainees-repatriation-libya.html The system set up under President Barack Obama to send low-level Guantánamo detainees to stable countries is at risk of collapsing under President Trump, current and former officials said. Lucas Jackson/Reuters Senegal deported two former Guantánamo detainees to Libya, raising fears of a broader collapse of Obama-era resettlement deals under President Trump. CHARLIE SAVAGE, DECLAN WALSH and DIONNE SEARCEY Tue, 24 Apr 2018 03:50:10 GMT United States International Relations Detainees United States Politics and Government Deportation State Department Trump, Donald J Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/22/world/africa/migration-european-union-sudan.html?partner=rss&emc=rss https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/22/world/africa/migration-european-union-sudan.html Undocumented immigrants arrested last year by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces. The European Union has made the country a nerve center for an effort to counter human smuggling, but many migration advocates say the moral cost is high. Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters Europe is outsourcing border management to distant countries, hoping to stop migrants before they cross the Mediterranean. But there may be a high moral cost. PATRICK KINGSLEY Mon, 23 Apr 2018 03:45:09 GMT Sudan European Union Refugees and Displaced Persons Middle East and Africa Migrant Crisis Immigration and Emigration War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity Human Rights and Human Rights Violations Janjaweed Darfur (Sudan) Libya https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/africa/100000005856412/satellite-images-reveal-the-birth-of-a-drone-base.html?partner=rss&emc=rss https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/africa/100000005856412/satellite-images-reveal-the-birth-of-a-drone-base.html Dust storms, scorching temperatures and lengthy delivery times have put the Pentagon’s new drone base in the Sahara in Niger more than a year behind schedule and $22 million over its original budget. Here is what images from space revealed about the construction process that started in 2016. Sun, 22 Apr 2018 07:00:04 GMT Satellites Niger Sahara Desert Drones (Pilotless Planes) United States Defense and Military Forces Defense Department Dust and Sand Storms United States International Relations https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/world/africa/swaziland-eswatini-name-change.html?partner=rss&emc=rss https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/world/africa/swaziland-eswatini-name-change.html King Mswati III of Swaziland. Taiwan Presidential Office, via EPA, via Shutterstock It means “land of the Swazis” in the local language. The name Swaziland dates to the period of British colonial rule, which ended in 1968. SEWELL CHAN Thu, 19 Apr 2018 23:53:24 GMT Swaziland Mswati III Names, Geographical Human Rights and Human Rights Violations https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/world/africa/south-africa-ramaphosa-protests.html?partner=rss&emc=rss https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/world/africa/south-africa-ramaphosa-protests.html President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa was in London for his first visit to a meeting of Commonwealth leaders since February, when he replaced Jacob Zuma. Daniel Leal-Olivas/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The new president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has pledged to curb corruption and increase economic growth — goals vital for the political survival of the governing African National Congress. SELAM GEBREKIDAN Thu, 19 Apr 2018 19:44:41 GMT Ramaphosa, Cyril Zuma, Jacob G South Africa London (England) Corruption (Institutional) Demonstrations, Protests and Riots Foreign Investments Income Inequality Land Use Policies Apartheid (Policy) African National Congress https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/nyregion/3-american-mercenaries-are-convicted-in-murder-of-filipino-woman.html?partner=rss&emc=rss https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/nyregion/3-american-mercenaries-are-convicted-in-murder-of-filipino-woman.html Joseph Hunter, a former Army sergeant, was convicted in connection to mercenary work for a South African crime lord. Sakchai Lalit/Associated Press The federal trial in Manhattan was built on the testimony of the defendants’ former boss, Paul Le Roux, a South African crime lord. ALAN FEUER Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:03:12 GMT Mercenaries and Private Military Contractors Drug Enforcement Administration Le Roux, Paul Lee, Catherine (d 2012) Hunter, Joseph M Stillwell, Carl D Samia, Adam Manila (Philippines) Murders, Attempted Murders and Homicides https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/science/diamonds-meteorite-lost-planet.html?partner=rss&emc=rss https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/science/diamonds-meteorite-lost-planet.html Fragments of the 2008 TC3, or Almahata Sitta, meteorite that fell to Earth in 2008. The diamonds discovered inside one of the fragment may have come from a protoplanet that orbited the sun billions of years ago. Peter Jenniskens/SETI/NASA The space rock crashed in a desert in Sudan in 2008, and the flaws in its embedded minerals are like nothing seen in today’s solar system. NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Wed, 18 Apr 2018 22:16:32 GMT Meteors and Meteorites Diamonds Solar System Planets Space and Astronomy Nature Communications (Journal) Sudan Gillet, Philippe Nabiei, Farhang https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/world/africa/south-africa-anc-corruption.html?partner=rss&emc=rss https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/world/africa/south-africa-anc-corruption.html Ace Magashule, secretary general of the African National Congress, was the premier of the province of Free State from 2009 to this year. Joao Silva/The New York Times The inquiry will focus on senior African National Congress politicians, signaling that party figures could answer for abuses under former President Jacob Zuma. NORIMITSU ONISHI and SELAM GEBREKIDAN Wed, 18 Apr 2018 21:33:00 GMT South Africa Corruption (Institutional) Politics and Government African National Congress Zuma, Jacob G Ramaphosa, Cyril Mkhwebane, Busisiwe Magashule, Ace Zwane, Mosebenzi Joseph Free State (South Africa) Dairy Products Agriculture and Farming Estina https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/travel/zimbabwe-birds.html?partner=rss&emc=rss https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/travel/zimbabwe-birds.html Granite outcroppings at Matobo National Park, a 163-square-mile wilderness. Christopher Scott One of the greatest concentrations of birds of prey in the world can be found among the towering rock formations and thick forests of Matobo National Park. JOSHUA HAMMER Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:00:11 GMT Birds Travel and Vacations Zimbabwe https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/obituaries/daphne-sheldrick-who-saved-orphaned-elephants-has-died-at-83.html?partner=rss&emc=rss https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/obituaries/daphne-sheldrick-who-saved-orphaned-elephants-has-died-at-83.html Daphne Sheldrick and her daughter Angela in Tsavo East National Park in Kenya in 1968. They posed with Eleanor, an orphaned elephant that was the subject of Ms. Sheldrick’s book, “An Elephant Called Eleanor.” The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust A wildlife trust she established in Kenya took in young animals, including many who had lost their mothers to poachers. NEIL GENZLINGER Wed, 18 Apr 2018 18:51:35 GMT Sheldrick, Daphne (1934-2018) Elephants Poaching (Wildlife) Conservation of Resources Kenya Deaths (Obituaries)