The soccer stars’ sharp black suits with leopard-print details are a nod to a long history of “sapeur” fashion.

“I had the right papers and everything,” Omar Abdulkadir Artan said in his first interview since he was turned back. He would have been the first Somali to referee a game in the tournament.

Aid agencies are racing to help health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The virus is known to have killed at least 140 people, but the true toll may be far higher.

Uganda said that flights to and from the Democratic Republic of Congo would be temporarily suspended, as the outbreak appeared to spread to a rebel-controlled province in Congo.

To some Africans, the claim that the continent’s largest health agency had already bungled its response scratched a familiar wound.

Despite the fragile cease-fire in the Middle East, many Africans say they are bracing for tougher times ahead and making difficult decisions about the future.

Nowhere has the achievement at the race in London resonated more than in Kenya’s Rift Valley, which has yielded many champions.

At once, Mahmood Mamdani’s fame was eclipsed by his son’s. At the same time, the election of Zohran Mamdani has attracted new interest in his father’s work.

Both sides have moved troops toward their shared border, while Ethiopia has accused Eritrea of occupying part of its territory.