Ethiopia has made rapid, impressive progress in rolling out basic health care to its 95 million citizens. Now it must build on these efforts by improving the quality of these services and prioritizing the hardest-to-reach, most marginalized, populations.

South Africa’s health system is approaching a make or break moment. Can it complete a set of complex organizational reforms and place itself on a sustainable financial footing that will enable it to deliver first-rate health care services to patients?

The Maghreb is looking south to secure its future. Though ties between sub-Saharan and North Africa are deep and go back centuries, after independence in the 1950s and 1960s, Maghreb countries primarily viewed sub-Saharan Africa as an arena for competition among...

When one thinks of the relationship between Europe and Africa today, two images that come to mind are of French military forces intervening in the Sahel region and Libyan immigrants attempting to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa on unnavigable vessels.

Some of the United States’ most vital and impactful relationships with African nations are in the health sector.

Africa’s place in the energy world is defined by its growing population and energy consumption, its legacy and new resource endowment, and its strategic location.

The U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit will focus on trade and investment opportunities in Africa, while highlighting America’s commitments to security and democratic governance on the continent.

For several decades, the Americas have actively sought to engage other regions of the world.

All but unknown and little discussed by the foreign policy community in Washington are two related phenomena playing out in Africa and other parts of the Global South: the opportunities of the open agenda and the formidable challenges of closing space around civil...

Africa’s robust economic growth will be a cause for celebration at the U.S.-Africa Leaders’ summit in August. Only East and South Asia have grown faster than sub-Saharan Africa since 2002.

The U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit, being hosted by President Barack Obama in August 2014, acknowledges the increasing strategic, economic, and diplomatic importance of Africa and signals a desire by the United States to step up its engagement with one of the world’s...

The criminalization of homosexuality in many African states, and the recent decision by Uganda and Nigeria to impose increasingly draconian punishments on homosexual conduct, has important implications for U.S. health and development programming, for diplomatic engagement,...