West Africa

A conversation with professor Philippe M. Frowd about his new book, which details both the politics and everyday realities in places like Senegal.

People walk in an alley of Conakry's Madina on March 18th, 2018, after a fire devastated the market.

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

A man casts his ballot for the general elections, on March 7th, 2018, at a polling station in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Riot police get ready to disperse people demonstrating to denounce the results of the local elections, on February 6th, 2018, in Conakry, Guinea.

Motorists wait as cows cross a road in Abobo, a suburb of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on January 3rd, 2018.

We long ago abandoned control over Zika-carrying mosquitoes. There's no excuse for being so short-sighted about public health initiatives.

While it's clear that many overestimated Ebola's impact, it's hard to draw a direct line from fearful predictions to economic loss.

Experts are debating whether an Ebola vaccine can eradicate the disease in 2015. They’re getting way ahead of themselves.