HARARE, ZIMBABWE — It’s been months since lecturers at the University of Zimbabwe, the country’s oldest and most prestigious ...

A new rule would bar National Resistance Movement party members who lose their primaries from running as independents in ...

Mwesigwa Masagazi holds a photo of his late son, Ivan Sentongo, at his home in Buloba, in Uganda’s Wakiso district. Sentongo, ...

Taslima Begum sews clothes at a factory in Ashulia, Bangladesh, where the industry remains a key economic driver. But after ...

Modi's administration wants more power over courts — but a weakened judiciary means fewer checks on authoritarian overreach.

Zimbabwe is among the world’s top producers of lithium. But border guards, mine employees and researchers say records show only a fraction of what’s really moving out of the country.

Wiyanti, 55, who goes by the nickname Uum, poses for a portrait in her home in Condet, East Jakarta, weeks after an early ...

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Pupils and parents say the forced examinations – condemned by the United Nations – traumatize girls. A group of student activists is demanding the practice ends.

Shifting Democracies fellows will examine changing governance structures in countries around the world, and how those shifts are interconnected. During this two-year, full-time fellowship, fellows ...

Girls of black African descent are upset over policies at some Ugandan schools that require them to cut their hair. The female students say the policies discriminate against them, as some girls of ...

One-third of the dialysis patients at the country’s National Kidney Center came for treatment after working abroad, often at jobs with grueling hours and few water or bathroom breaks in stifling heat.