Africa

PEPFAR has long been a successful program for treating and preventing HIV. We must not let partisan politics kill it.

A photo essay documents life in Mozambique, which has been torn apart by conflict since 2017.

"As I made my way to the bus station to travel back to Matameye, I bade farewell to the deities that haunt Zinder, city of baffled desire."

“Would the ordination of deaconesses in one apostolic lung of the Church make it easier for the other?”

Repairing the destruction in Derna, Libya, requires significant humanitarian aid. The United States has an obligation to provide it.

After the ousting of democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum in Niger, questions arise about the role of Western presence in the region.

East Africa is in the midst of the worst drought in living memory. Devastation here will not be the result of some natural evil so much as our own lack of care.

The tragic death of Nigerian priest Isaac Achi should be met with compassion and solidarity, not sanctions.

Egypt’s COP27 inspires pretty speeches. But can it inspire real action?

The ceasefire between Tigray and the Ethiopian government is welcome, but the peace it promises is still fragile.

Catholicism has become the most multicultural and multilingual institution in the world.

African nations face what appears to be a double standard, which has made them skeptical of the promise of real international criminal justice.