Celia W. Dugger

A rise in programs sending doctors to some of the world’s poorest countries has met with an outpouring of enthusiasm from many recent graduates.

South Africa has joined an elite group of emerging powers, but at home, it faces an erosion of confidence in the government.

Demographers called the report a reminder that the population explosion, which helped define global politics in the 20th century, is far from solved in the 21st.

Mr. Tekere was imprisoned with Robert Mugabe during the struggle to end white rule in Rhodesia, but broke with him after Mr. Mugabe became president.

Over the past 15 years, the majority of villages where genital cutting was commonplace have now committed to stop.

A team of New York Times reporters spent the past two months gathering facts for a first draft of the early history of an epidemic that began in the forests of Guinea a year ago.

We’ve asked current and former New York Times international news correspondents, with a collective 25 years reporting in Africa, to tell us what to do in the regions they’ve covered.

The chief executive of the foundation provides an inside glimpse of the works and ways of the philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates.

The philanthropist seeks to get contraception to 120 million by 2020, but the effort is running into barriers.

A Times reporter visited a clinic in Ethiopia that provided life-changing treatment with the support of Jimmy Carter.