Africa

No More Mr. Nice Guy

Rwanda's president brought his country back from the horrors of genocide, but a career full of dirty tricks may see the West's love affair with Paul Kagame over.

BY KATIE CELLA | AUGUST 3, 2012

Smokeless Stoves, Girl-Friendly Schools, and the Bloc That Wasn’t

Academic economists usually air their new ideas first in working papers. Here, before the work gets dusty, a quick look at transition policy research in progress.

BY PETER PASSELL | AUGUST 3, 2012

When Your Whole Country Is a Closet

Powerful images of gay Uganda.

BY TADEJ ZNIDARCIC | AUGUST 2, 2012

Money Pit on the Potomac

Why is the Pentagon spending billions on breast cancer research?

BY JOHN NORRIS | JULY 31, 2012

The Arabian Horse

Can Egypt's economy deliver on the revolutionary promise of a better future for all?

BY MOHAMED A. EL-ERIAN | JULY 31, 2012

A Country with Fourteen Psychiatrists

Libya is trying to build a new democracy. But that's a tall order for a society plagued by bad memories.

BY PORTIA WALKER | JULY 26, 2012

Alan Boswell's White Whale

Enough Project responds to criticism of its South Sudan advocacy.

BY JONATHAN HUTSON | JULY 25, 2012

Stopping Mali from Becoming Somalia

The United States needs to prevent Mali from turning into another failed state in the heart of Africa.

BY WITNEY SCHNEIDMAN, BRANDON ROUTMAN | JULY 24, 2012

Africanistan? Not Exactly

The dangers of international intervention in Mali.

BY GREGORY MANN | JULY 24, 2012

Just What the Doctor Ordered

Public health activists and pharmaceutical companies are finally joining forces to help developing countries get access to low-cost drugs.

BY ROGER BATE | JULY 23, 2012

Plague of Thugs

Why Mideast dictators use hoodlums to suppress dissent.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 18, 2012

Hope But No Change

Why has President Obama abandoned the one country in Africa he promised to help?

BY MVEMBA PHEZO DIZOLELE | JULY 16, 2012

Not Quite the Holy Grail

The changing global picture of foreign direct investment.

BY PETER PASSELL | JULY 13, 2012

Lost City

After a week of wanton destruction, is the legendary city of Timbuktu finally coming to an end?

BY PETER CHILSON | JULY 10, 2012

Shrines into Stones

Images of the disappearing treasures of Timbuktu's ancient landmarks as militants bomb them into rubble.

JULY 10, 2012

Dereliction of Duty

A new U.N. report has highlighted Rwanda's responsibility for continuing conflict in the Congo. Washington's inaction is an outrage.

BY JEFFREY TAYLER | JULY 10, 2012

The Failed State Lobby

Inside the bizarre moral campaign by Washington politicians, NGO do-gooders, and celebrities to create an independent South Sudan -- whether it's a disaster or not.

BY ALAN BOSWELL | JULY 9, 2012

Death in the Nuba Mountains

The brutal regime in Khartoum has a new weapon more deadly than bombs: hunger.

BY TREVOR SNAPP | JULY 9, 2012

The World in Photos This Week

Scientists discover the Higgs boson, fireworks around the globe, and refugees flee to South Sudan.

JULY 6, 2012

The Women of Tahrir Square Fight Back

The revolution in Egypt isn’t over -- at least as long as female revolutionaries have anything to say about it.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 5, 2012

How to Get Your Country off the Sh*t List

An open letter to the leaders of Eritrea, Afghanistan, Equatorial Guinea, Turkmenistan, Belarus, Sudan, Pakistan, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and other countries too numerous to list here.

BY JOHN NORRIS | JULY 5, 2012

Is Nigeria the Next Front in the War on Terror?

The country's sectarian violence is getting out of control.

BY DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS | JULY 3, 2012

Justice Delayed

Ten years later, the International Criminal Court is still on trial.

BY DAVID BOSCO | JUNE 29, 2012

Waiting for Gbagbo

Are things so bad that Ivory Coast misses its former tyrant?

BY PETER DICAMPO | JUNE 29, 2012

Sympathy for the Devil

Nostalgia for an ousted tyrant is on the rise in Ivory Coast.

BY AUSTIN MERRILL | JUNE 29, 2012

Failed Index

Foreign Policy's definition of a failed state raises more questions than it answers and unfairly stigmatizes African countries that are moving in the right direction.

BY ELLIOT ROSS | JUNE 29, 2012

The Court of Last Resort

Will the ICC's next decade see the court expand the stop-start gains of its first 10 years?

BY RICHARD DICKER | JUNE 29, 2012

The Missing 50 Percent

There’s no real democracy without full representation for women.

BY SUSAN A. MARKHAM | JUNE 29, 2012

Rumblings in Sudan

Anti-regime riots have swept through the authoritarian country, but is an Arab Spring really coming?

BY DEMOCRACY LAB | JUNE 27, 2012

The Sudanese Stand Up

The best way to help the protesters in Sudan? Cover the story.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JUNE 27, 2012