Dakar Harrigan and Marquis Brooks, both Monterey County natives, are breaking barriers in a community where there aren't many barbers who look like them.

A 15-year-old murder suspect, Sayon Kromah, is on the run for allegedly stabbing a 22-year-old girl to death in a quarrel.

An 11-year-old boy from Sierra Leone can finally go to school and use his right arm again after his severely deformed limb was operat ...

The Dakar Rally, the world’s most prestigious ... Here, time slows down, especially in the Old Town, where labyrinthine alleys hide artisan workshops, fragrant souks and crumbling coral stone ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Panic spread in eastern Congo’s main city on Thursday, with M23 rebels steadily inching closer to Goma and seizing a nearby town as they ... a 19-year-old high school ...

Once a holding cell for kidnapped Africans, the island’s House of Slaves is today a UNESCO World Heritage site—and the site of healing and atonement.

CEM OZDEL / GETTY IMAGES In Senegal's capital Dakar the following day ... Days earlier in the South African town of Magaliesburg, members of the Immaculate Conception Guild pose next to a statue ...