Liz Sly

In Africa, as elsewhere in the world, the provision of food is a woman's responsibility. But for poor women, the concept of housework takes on a whole new dimension. Food...

Anyone who has tried to make a telephone call in Uganda will understand why Africa is officially the world's worst telecommunications nightmare. Uganda, with just three phones per thousand people,...

Samson Mazimpaka, 12, became a soldier last year, not because he wanted to but because he had nowhere else to turn. After witnessing the massacre of his parents and seven...

It was 9:30 a.m. on the first day of the academic year, and the 1,000 students at Fourways High School in one of Johannesburg's wealthy, white-dominated suburbs already were at...

Rufus Khumalo, 74, doesn't know what bothers him most about his new life on the land where he spent his boyhood: The loneliness of living in a virtually empty field...

Maria Moepija's hand trembled as she held a pencil for the very first time in her life. But with a little help from a local volunteer she crafted a wobbly...

Right-wingers opposed to the democracy process in South Africa Saturday endorsed the use of violence to achieve a white homeland, offering a display of angry militancy that heightened fears of...

Setting Somalia on the road to recovery is going to take far more than deliveries of food to the hungry, as a drive through the eerily deserted countryside makes clear....

Anyone who still thinks the United Nations is a diplomatic backwater should have spent a few days last week witnessing the activity in the corridors of its 39-story headquarters on...

Vice President Dan Quayle began a seven-day visit to Africa on Sunday in an effort to boost the continent`s often overlooked emerging democracies. The five-nation visit is designed largely to...