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British Army medics boarded a flight Tuesday to Sierra Leone, a former British colony, where they will build treatment centers.

Ebola Outbreak Erodes Recent Advances in West Africa

By SOMINI SENGUPTA

Ebola is wiping away the small gains made in war-scarred parts of West Africa, potentially threatening the hard-won stability in a tinderbox part of the world.

An electoral poster in Tunisia, where the nation’s second free election is to take place this month. The country is among the Arab world’s most educated, but militants are recruiting heavily there.

New Freedoms in Tunisia Drive Support for ISIS

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

Even as Tunisians have approved a new constitution and the country has one of the Arab world’s most educated populations, militants are recruiting more openly there than in any other country.

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Oscar Pistorius at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday.

Oscar Pistorius’s 5-Year Sentence May Mean Move to House Arrest

By ALAN COWELL

The South African track star, who was found guilty of culpable homicide in the killing of his girlfriend, was also given a suspended three-year term on separate firearms charges.

Workers assemble personal protection kits at a Medline plant in Illinois. Makers of protective equipment say demand has spiked, as hospitals brace for potential Ebola cases.

Demand Jumps for Protective Equipment as Ebola Cases Spur Hospitals Into Action

By RACHEL ABRAMS

Major manufacturers of protective equipment are increasing production as people across the United States brace for new potential cases of the virus.

Ali Mazrui, Scholar of Africa Who Divided U.S. Audiences, Dies at 81

By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Professor Mazrui, who had taught since 1989 at Binghamton University, set off national criticism with his 1986 television documentary, “The Africans: A Triple Heritage.”

Judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa at a sentencing hearing for Oscar Pistorius last week.

Awaiting Oscar Pistorius Sentencing, South Africa Wrangles Over Complex Issues

By ALAN COWELL

Judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa is expected to begin handing down a sentence on Tuesday to Oscar Pistorius in the death of his girlfriend.

A teacher in Lagos, Nigeria, measured students’ temperatures this month. A fever is one symptom of the Ebola virus.

Nigeria Is Free of Ebola, Health Agency Affirms

By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE

The announcement called Nigeria’s effort a “spectacular success story” but warned that the country, Africa’s most populous, cannot relax its defenses.

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Ebola Overwhelms West Africa Communities

The disease is sweeping into hospitals in Makeni, one of Sierra Leone’s largest cities.

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Fighting Ebola, and the Mud

By KARIN HUSTER

Liberia’s impassable roads are preventing effective diagnosis and treatment.

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Kenya’s Dubious Day in Court

By MICHAEL MEYER

The International Criminal Court's handling of the Kenyan case has hurt the accusers more than the accused.

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Illuminating a Central African Crisis, Photo by Photo

By JAMES ESTRIN

While the world was watching the funeral of Nelson Mandela, Jerome Delay made it his mission to remain in the violence-wracked Central African Republic, hoping to shed light on the crisis there.

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Inside Nairobi’s Devastated Westgate Mall

More than a week after militants killed scores of people in the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya, investigators sought clues to the attack. These are among the first pictures to emerge from inside the mall since the investigation began.

Nelson Mandela, who led the emancipation of South Africa from white minority rule and was his country’s first black president, becoming an international emblem of dignity and forbearance, died on Thursday. He was 95.

Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s Liberator as Prisoner and President, Dies at 95

By BILL KELLER

Mr. Mandela’s quest for freedom in South Africa’s system of white rule took him from the court of tribal royalty to the liberation underground to a prison cell to the presidency.

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The Price of Ivory

Articles and multimedia in this series explore how the surge of poaching in Africa both feeds off and fuels instability on the continent.

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TIMELINE: Timeline on Mali

Mali has been in turmoil since 2012, as events there and in Algeria raised the possibility of drawing an increasing number of foreign countries into direct involvement. Below, a timeline of the two crises.