Yoweri Museveni

China intensified its economic courting of Africa as Premier Hu Jintao pledged $20 billion in loans to countries on the continent over the next three years....

Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and the How the World Can Finally Overcome It By Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin Penguin Press, 421 pp., $29.95 Few diseases have been the subject of more books than the HIV/AIDS pandemic, with such...

As a high school senior, Courtney Petrunak did her exit project on the Invisible Children, the long-running armed conflict in Central Africa. Now, a year later, Petrunak and others are reaching out to help. They are organizing a fundraiser to benefit...

A viral video by the group Invisible Children is trying to use the power of the Internet to stop Joseph Kony, the head of a small but infamous militia that has terrorized northern Uganda with killings, kidnappings, mutilations and torture....

The viral video campaign by Invisible Children that put the name “Joseph Kony” atop Google searches and Twitter trends has stirred up frustration in Uganda, where the crimes of the infamous guerrilla leader are nothing new....

Outrage erupted in Uganda after a female opposition leader was aggressively groped by a police officer as she was pulled out of a car and arrested outside Kampala en route to a banned protest....

Sue Horton, Op-Ed and Sunday Opinion editor of The Times, is in Rwanda on a two-week Gatekeeper Editor fact-finding trip organized by the International Reporting Project. She is chronicling her trip on the Opinion L.A. blog. Sunday night, Nov. 6/Monday......

Officials called an emergency meeting on the 15-member council, which they said was split almost in half between countries that have recognized the opposition Libyan government and those that have not, including many past supporters of embattled Libyan...

As dusk falls across northern Uganda, scores of children begin their nightly trek into the centers of remote provincial towns. They sleep in doorways, on verandas and at drafty bus stations, hospitals and schools. They are known as "night commuters,"...

From world leaders pulling up in stretch limousines to cheerleaders in town from Ohio, ground zero at the former World Trade Center is drawing thousands of people a day who feel a need to view the wreckage firsthand and somehow pay homage. In a sad...

The charitable foundation of Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates pledged $750 million Monday to vaccinate children throughout the developing world, one of the largest donations ever. The contribution to the international Vaccine Fund will help fight...