Sudan dropped almost completely off the Internet on Wednesday as riots over the lifting of fuel subsidies entered their third day and protesters battled security forces in the capital. Renesys Corp., which maps the pathways of the Internet, said it could not confirm whether ...

The great democratic and economic strides made by African countries in the last decade risk being checked by aging leaders unwilling to pass the baton. For generations of foreign investors accustomed to the likes of Uganda’s Idi Amin and the former Zaire’s Mobutu Sese ...

Attackers who killed seven peacekeepers in Sudan’s Darfur region were armed with anti-aircraft guns, the head of the African Union-U.N. mission said Sunday, calling for a review of whether his men have the tools to deal with worsening insecurity. Saturday’s ambush left seven Tanzanian ...

American-made devices used for Internet monitoring have been detected on government and commercial computer networks in Iran and Sudan, in apparent violation of U.S. sanctions that ban the sale of goods, services or technology to the autocratic states, according to new research. Several of ...

The world may have tired of the civil war in Sudan’s Darfur region, but for Fatima there is no escape from its painful legacy a decade after fighting began. “I remember the day my village was burned by Janjaweed and they killed my husband ...