Africa

Jerry Parkes graduated from Wharton and decided to return to his homeland to put his business acumen to use in the agricultural field.

Five Congolese soldiers also died, and dozens of peacekeepers were wounded, in the attack on a base in eastern Congo. A U.N. official said it was the bloodiest assault on peacekeepers in 25 years.

When Robert Hakiza was a boy, he used to play soccer with kids regardless of their ethnicity. Could the sport help cut through ethnic tensions at a refugee camp in Uganda?

A program in Ethiopia promises a farmyard incentive to families that don't marry off an underage daughter.

Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, the founder of an HIV/AIDS nonprofit in Uganda, thinks World AIDS Day could be bigger and better.

Whether or not she cares, princess-to-be Meghan Markle has become a symbol of biracial people's coming-of-age, and maybe of the country's collective adulthood on race, writes Karen Grigsby Bates.

In Uganda, dogs are not typically pets and are often feared. But one young man decided to see if therapy dogs might be helpful for traumatized veterans of the civil war.

A Ghana-born chocolatier found that many people — even Africans — weren't familiar with the spices and cultures from other parts of the continent. And it is those experiences she seeks to share.