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Kenya police officers stand guard as Forensic experts and homicide detectives exhume bodies of suspected members of a Christian cult named as Good News International Church, who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death, in Shakahola forest of Kilifi county, Kenya

Kenya doomsday cult leader jailed for unlicensed film production

Water 4 Mercy tapped into an underground aquifer to access freshwater.

Tanzanian village transformed by US-Israel clean water project

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receives Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani upon his arrival in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 10, 2023.

Saudi crown prince, African leaders call for end to war in Gaza

Police officers stand guard near the site of a suicide bombing attack in downtown Tunis, Tunisia June 27, 2019.

Five Islamist convicts escape from Tunisian jail

By REUTERS

‘When It’s Gone, It’s Gone’ - leitmotif of the ‘Fabrication’ exhibition.

Out of Africa: Susan Shafrir exhibits her embroidery in Haifa

By WENDY BLUMFIELD

The men’s section in the central sukkah.

Sukkah Village: Celebrating at Beth Harachman in southern Nigeria

By AVRAHAM BEN AVRAHAM

Ugandan opposition leader and singer Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, known as Bobi Wine arrives to address Ugandans living in South Africa on political issues in their home country, at the sports ground in Germiston, southeast of Johannesburg, South Africa, October 3, 2023.

Uganda arrests 40 opposition supporters as their leader arrives

By REUTERS

President of Tunisia's Free Destourian Party Abir Moussi speaks to the media during a protest demanding the dissolution of parliament and asking for early legislative elections, in Tunis, Tunisia November 20, 2021.

Tunisia detains Abir Moussi, prominent opponent of president

By REUTERS

Detail of Stone Age depictions of human footprints and animal tracks in Doro Nawas mountains, Namibia.

Stone age artists carved detailed human and animal rock art in Namibia

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Gusti Yehoshua-Braverman. Head of the Department of Irgoon and Israelis Abroad The World Zionist Organization.

One step forward, two steps back – some thoughts following my return from South Africa

By GUSTI YEHOSHUA-BRAVERMAN

A labourer walks in a sorted piles of recyclable plastic bottles in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia June 2, 2022

Addis Ababa's warming may trigger year-round malaria, study warns

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

FILE PHOTO: Soldiers from Burkina Faso patrol on the road of Gorgadji in the Sahel area of Burkina Faso, March 3, 2019.

Sahel alliance: Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger form new defense pact - analysis

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

THE WRITER engages with survivors from the Albert Street fire disaster in Johannesburg. ‘We cannot have a thriving and dynamic Jewish community when others around us are struggling to survive,’ she says.

South African Jews respond to Johannesburg disaster - opinion

By WENDY KAHN

UNESCO's Director-General Audrey Azoulay addresses delegates at the 19th Kwita Izina ceremony of giving a name to a newborn baby gorillas outside the Volcanoes National Park, near Kinigi, Musanze District, Rwanda, September 1, 2023

Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO celebrate Rwanda’s mountain gorilla triumph

By MAAYAN HOFFMAN

Thousands of Nigeriens gather in front of the French army headquarter, in support of the putschist soldiers and to demand the French army to leave, in Niamey, Niger September 2, 2023

Huge protests in Niger call for French forces to leave after coup

By REUTERS

Firefighters walk at the scene of a deadly blaze, in Johannesburg, South Africa August 31, 2023.

Life inside the 'hijacked' Johannesburg building where scores burned alive

By REUTERS

BRIAN AND Audrey Brom, their children, and their nephew Myer Brom and sons.

This Torah was smuggled from Zimbabwe to Israel

By RICHARD SHAVEI-TZION

Gabonese military appear on television as they announce that they have seized power following President Ali Bongo Ondimba's re-election, in this screengrab obtained by Reuters on August 30, 2023.

Gabon coup: Unrest in Africa's Sahel is becoming more common - analysis

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN