Girls in Africa Aren’t Asking for Pity. They’re Asking for a Chance.

I went to West Africa to report on girls’ education. I left convinced that the Western feminist movement has grown far too comfortable fighting only for itself.

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The West African Girls Leading a Quiet Revolution

We think of human rights abuses as wartime atrocities, but sometimes they involve what family members do to the people they love.

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As Debt Piles Up, Countries See Fiscal Relief as Political Leverage

With developing nations crushed by unaffordable borrowing and Washington on the sidelines, some leaders are brokering debt forgiveness deals.

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Conquering Soccer and Arming Warlords

The Emirati vice president is best known as the owner of a top English soccer team. Behind the scenes, he has been described as the “handler” guiding his country’s secret foreign wars.

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Rwanda and Congo Sign U.S.-Brokered Peace Treaty

President Trump claims credit for the outcome. The main question now is how the treaty will be implemented as fighting still rages in eastern Congo.

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Kenyans Return to the Streets a Year After Deadly Tax Protests

The police fired tear gas at demonstrators who were expressing anger at the government over growing economic hardship and a lack of accountability for killings at earlier rallies.

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Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support

A new drug that gives almost complete protection against the virus was to be administered across Africa this year. Now, much of the funding for that effort is gone.

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Inside the Global Deal-Making Behind Trump’s Mass Deportations

The administration is pushing nations around the world, including ones at war, to take people expelled by the U.S. government who are not citizens of those countries.

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Missteps, Confusion and ‘Viral Waste’: The 14 Days That Doomed U.S.A.I.D.

The rapid dismantling of the global aid agency remains one of the most consequential outcomes of President Trump’s efforts to overhaul the federal government, showing his willingness to tear down institutions in defiance of the courts.

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Regulators Approve Lenacapavir for H.I.V. Prevention

The drug could change the course of the AIDS epidemic. But the Trump administration has gutted the programs that might have paid for it in low-income countries.

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