“The flag is no longer a cloth that flaps overhead and that is detached from the people.”Credit...Brian Otieno for The New York Times Abdi Latif Dahir is the East Africa correspondent for The ...

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: Backlash in Kenya over livestock vaccines ...

HOLLIE ADAMS / REUTERS A girl flies the flag for the Democratic Republic of ... xenophobic abuse and dropping out of the Miss South Africa pageant, Chidimma Adetshina takes part in the Miss ...