African Union

Obama: Africa Can't Let Tradition Hinder Progress

By Aryn Baker / Addis Ababa

'If I Ran, I Could Win'

By Maya Rhodan

African CDC to Open in 2015

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 9

By The Aspen Institute
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South Sudan Rebel Leader Hopeful Peace Talks Will Resume

Rebel leader Riek Machar tells TIME that this time "I hope it will be different" — but experts aren't so sure it will be

By Noah Rayman

Somalia Braces for Retaliation After Al-Shabab Leader’s Death

African Union peacekeepers were attacked in southwestern Somalia Saturday

By Denver Nicks

Meet the Photographers Covering Africa's Forgotten Conflict

Meet three photographers covering the often overlooked Central African Republic, a region that seems to make headlines only when violence and poverty strike.

By Olivier Laurent

Central African Republic Marks a Grim Anniversary of Chaos

The lawless state struggles for stability a year after Muslim rebels overthrew the government and began a nine-month campaign of terror prompting retaliation by Christian militias

By Andrew Katz

Nearly All Muslims Have Fled C.A.R.'s Capital

The U.N. says less than one percent of the Muslims who once lived in Central African Republic's capital of Bangui remain after a year of political instability and intense street fighting devolved into an unprecedented inter-religious conflict

By Andrew Katz

Africa's Nowhere Land: Photos From Abyei, Where Ancient Tensions Smolder

Reuters photographer Goran Tomasevic on the ground in Abyei, a disputed region between South Sudan and Sudan, as tensions escalate following the results today of a unanimous, one-sided referendum vote to join the world's newest nation.

By Eugene Reznik

Somalia in Transition: Photographs by Dominic Nahr

TIME contract photographer Dominic Nahr traveled to Somalia to photograph Mogadishu's return to life after 21 years of civil war.

By Alex Perry
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