NY Times: Ousmane Sonko’s Arrest Sets Off New Round of Protests - Ousmane Sonko, a fiery figure with a loyal youth following, was charged with fomenting insurrection, and his party dissolved. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/world/africa/senegal-protests-sonko.html -

NY Times: Kenya Offers to Lead International Force to Help Restore Order in Haiti - Kenya has offered to lead a police force to help restore order to Haiti, where gangs that control vast parts of the country’s capital have fomented violence. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/world/americas/haiti-international-intervention.html -

NY Times: A Leader of Niger’s Coup Visits Mali, Raising Fears of a Wagner Alliance - Several military officials who took power from the president in Niger last week met with the leaders of Mali, where the Kremlin-backed Wagner mercenary group has deployed about 1,500 troops. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/world/africa/niger-coup-mali-wagner.html -

NY Times: ‘Kill the Boer’ Song Fuels Backlash in South Africa and U.S. - Right-wing commenters claim that an old anti-apartheid chant is a call to anti-white violence, but historians and the left-wing politician who embraces it say it should not be taken literally. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/world/africa/south-africa-kill-boer-song.html -

NY Times: Niger Coup: Here’s What to Know - Amid an unpredictable military takeover, neighboring countries have threatened to go to war — some to scuttle the president’s ouster, and others to ensure its success. - https://www.nytimes.com/article/niger-coup-military-explainer.html -

NY Times: Niger’s Detained President, Mohamed Bazoum, Pleads for U.S. Help - The military junta that ousted the president in the West African nation of Niger last week also dismissed Niger’s ambassadors to key partners: the United States, France and Nigeria. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/world/africa/niger-president-coup-us.html -

NY Times: Niger is Latest African Country Where France’s Fortunes are Fading - A recent military takeover in Niger has thrown into uncertainty the future of France’s presence in West and Central Africa, raising doubts about the future of U.S. military involvement there, too. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/world/africa/niger-coup-france-west-africa.html -

NY Times: Henri Konan Bédié, Ivory Coast President Deposed in a Coup, Dies at 89 - As a longtime power broker he helped make his West African country an economic dynamo, but in office he fomented ethnic divisions and cracked down on dissent. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/world/africa/henri-konan-bedie-ivory-coast-president-deposed-in-a-coup-dies-at-89.html -

NY Times: In Egypt, Public Classrooms Are Empty as Private Tutors Get Rich - In a country hobbled by economic crisis, families often turn to private education centers instead of schools to seek better futures for their children, sometimes even sacrificing food to pay for lessons. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/world/middleeast/egypt-public-schools-tutoring.html -

NY Times: Deadline to Junta in Niger From ECOWAS Leaders Runs Out - A deadline given by a bloc of other West African nations to the Nigerien military junta to reinstate the ousted president ran out with no sign of a military intervention by neighbors. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/world/africa/niger-coup-deadline.html -

NY Times: At Least 24 Killed in Minibus Crash in Morocco - The vehicle overturned at a curve on its way to a weekly town market southeast of Marrakesh, officials said. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/world/africa/morocco-bus-crash.html -

NY Times: Hopes for Dialogue Dim in Niger as Junta Clings to Power - A leader of the coup in Niger who had been considered a close U.S. ally rejected a request from a visiting U.S. diplomat to release the country’s democratically elected president and bring back constitutional order. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/world/africa/niger-coup-military-talks.html -

NY Times: Amid Niger Coup, Nigeria Grapples with Potential Military Intervention - A coup in Niger could shape the future of a West African regional bloc and the presidency of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the newly elected leader of Nigeria. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/world/africa/niger-coup-nigeria-military.html -

NY Times: Rodriguez, Singer Whose Career Was Resurrected, Dies at 81 - Two albums in the early 1970s went largely unnoticed in the United States, but not overseas. Then came the 2012 documentary “Searching for Sugar Man.” - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/arts/music/sixto-rodriguez-dead.html -

NY Times: 4 Nigerian Migrants Crossed the Atlantic on a Ship’s Rudder to Brazil - Four Nigerian stowaways hopped on a cargo ship not knowing where it was going, but hoping to find a place where they could claw out of poverty. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/world/americas/nigerian-migrants-brazil.html -

NY Times: Few Options on Niger Crisis for West African Leaders - The military junta told an American diplomat this week that they would kill Niger’s elected president, who they’re holding hostage, if other countries tried to intervene. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/world/africa/niger-coup-ecowas-summit.html -

NY Times: Jacob Zuma Released From South Africa Prison After Brief Return - The authorities said Mr. Zuma, the former president, was a beneficiary of a new program to relieve crowding. His political opponents called the timing suspicious. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/world/africa/jacob-zuma-released-south-africa.html -

NY Times: Fresh Fighting in Ethiopia Raises Fears of New War - Less than a year after the war in the country’s northern Tigray region ended, Ethiopia’s military is battling an ethnic militia in the neighboring Amhara region in a part of Africa already ravaged by conflict. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/world/africa/ethiopia-fighting-war.html -

NY Times: At the Sierra Club, a Focus on Race, Gender and the Environment, Too - A debate about John Muir and racism thrust Ramón Cruz into a new leadership role. - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/business/sierra-club-ramon-cruz-corner-office.html -

NY Times: The GoFundMe C.E.O. Wants You to Ask: ‘How Can I Help?’ - Tim Cadogan helps people raise money for disaster relief and other causes. Just don’t call it a substitute for the social safety net. - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/business/tim-cadogan-gofundme-corner-office.html -