DORI, Burkina Faso (AP) — Awoken by gunshots in the middle of the night, Fatima Amadou was shocked by what she saw among the attackers: children. Guns slung over their small frames, the children chanted “Allahu akbar,” as they surrounded her home...

With the spread of the more transmissible Delta variant continuing nationwide, the recent surge in Covid-19 cases is being largely driven by swaths of people that remain unvaccinated, according to one expert.

The U.S. Marine Corps has deployed its Security Augmentation Unit twice in the past month to help defend and support embassies in Africa and the Caribbean.

For decades, we have lived under the shared view that independent agencies should be insulated from the raw partisan politics that frustrate our ability to manage government competently— that illusion was finally revealed when President Biden fired...

The former president has not confirmed whether he'll run in 2024.