Sub-Saharan countries have raised nearly $7 billion this year, more than in all of 2013, and yields on many bonds have fallen, even with the Ebola outbreak.
The World Health Organization’s assistant director general said there had been a decline in burials in the West African nation and no increases in confirmed cases.
After years working in the opposition and three failed election bids, Mr. Sata became president in 2011, promising to reduce inequality.
Liberia has far fewer people being treated for Ebola than anticipated, but health officials are hesitant to declare victory.
Mr. Meyiwa, the goalkeeper and captain of the national team, was killed during a robbery attempt at the home of his girlfriend near Johannesburg.
The National Union of Metalworkers said it would break with the African Nation Congress and form a new socialist political party.
The announcement on Twitter came less than a week after the track star Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to five years for culpable homicide.
Health workers in Liberia and elsewhere in West Africa are finding they have to ration care, operating under constraints they often find frustrating.
Although there are currently no drugs or vaccines approved in the United States to treat or prevent Ebola, health officials have used several experimental drugs in the recent epidemic.
Three billboards tell very different stories about President Sisi’s regime.
Liberia’s impassable roads are preventing effective diagnosis and treatment.
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.
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.
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.
Articles and multimedia in this series explore how the surge of poaching in Africa both feeds off and fuels instability on the continent.
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.
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