Africa

Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, died of cancer on Sunday — in this 2007 interview, Maathai describes her life in environmental activism.

Rabbi Susan Silverman, the sister of comedian Sarah Silverman, is behind a movement to stop the deportation or imprisonment of some 40,000 African migrants living in Israel.

Souleymane Guengueng, at home in the Bronx, once helped imprison a brutal former president of Chad. Now, he hopes to teach others how he did it.

Researchers say the dramatic drop, revealed by a three-year aerial study, is largely due to poaching.

Police arrested 1,000 people as security forces fanned out across Gabon’s capital Thursday, after riots and looting erupted when President Ali Bongo was declared winner of disputed polls.