By Robyn Dixon
The villages of Botswana are full of music. Gospel music. Choral music. The singsong repetitive music of rote classroom learning.
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NCIS: The team's investigation into a lieutenant's death is connected to a...
By Scott Kraft
As a senior police official, Edmundo Mendes' job is to arrest the South American cocaine traffickers who use his troubled West African...
By Scott Kraft :: reporting from bissau, guinea-bissau
As a senior police official, Edmundo Mendes' job is to arrest the South American cocaine traffickers who use his troubled West African...
By Scott Kraft : Reporting from Freetown, Sierra Leone
When the power went out that night, Dr. Ibrahim Thorlie was operating on his fifth patient of the day in a maternity hospital with a...
By Robyn Dixon
Before the dig started, it looked like any other patch of dinosaur dirt: gray soil, a few brownish fossilized bones exposed by erosion....
By Edmund Sanders
From a tree-shaded plateau facing Mt. Kenya, the worshipers gaze anxiously at its melting ice cap and wonder: Is God dead?
Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested about 100 armed men blamed for killing dozens of policemen in an attack in...
By Robyn Dixon
Here's how to pitch this (true) story to Hollywood: Ordinary guy named John, ordinary Sunday, cycling home into a setting sun. Monster roars...
At least 36 people have been killed and scores wounded in three days of fighting in towns across chaotic Somalia, a local human rights group...
By Devorah Lauter
Convicted of profiting from illicit arms sales to Angola, a former French interior minister is roiling the political establishment by...
Nigeria's main militant group declared an indefinite cease-fire Sunday, raising the prospect of peace in the oil-rich Delta region after...