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Wardens with the Kenya Wildlife Service carried tranquilizer guns as they searched for lions who escaped Nairobi National Park on Friday.

Nairobi Park’s Lions, a Draw for Tourists, Take a Trip of Their Own

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

A number of lions that slipped out of Nairobi National Park on Friday, but the police did not report any unwanted encounters.

Peeping through a hole in a door in Kampala, Uganda, on Friday as the police engaged in a running battle with supporters of Kizza Besigye, the main opposition candidate for president.

Kizza Besigye, Main Opposition Candidate in Uganda, Is Arrested Again

By JOSH KRON

Mr. Besigye was arrested for the second time in two days as voting continued amid unrest in the capital.

Cameroon Blames Boko Haram in Pair of Suicide Bombings

By FRANCOIS ESSOMBA and DIONNE SEARCEY

A week after Cameroon began a new offensive against the militant group, two attackers detonated explosives in Mémé, local reports said, killing nearly two dozen people.

U.S. Bombing in Libya Reveals Limits of Strategy Against ISIS

By DECLAN WALSH BEN HUBBARD and ERIC SCHMITT

The strikes, which Western officials said targeted a senior operative linked to attacks in Tunisia, highlighted a growing gap in American military and diplomatic efforts.

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LETTER FROM AFRICA

Truth, Reconciliation and Now, a Prosecution in South Africa

By ALAN COWELL

Four police officers will be tried in the torture and murder of an anti-apartheid courier in 1983, a triumph for the judicial process, however slow.

Filming against a green screen in Illah, a village in southeast Nigeria, in November. The production is part of the Nollywood industry, which has exploded in Africa.

Nigeria’s Booming Film Industry Redefines African Life

By NORIMITSU ONISHI

Nollywood is resonating across the continent with its stories of a pre-colonial past and of a present caught between village life and urban modernity.

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People lined up to vote at the Nasuti polling station east of Kampala, the Ugandan capital, on Thursday.

As Uganda Votes, Polling Stations Open Hours Late and a Candidate Is Arrested

By JOSH KRON

Kizza Besigye, the main challenger to President Yoweri Museveni, was apprehended by the Ugandan authorities, who did not comment on the arrest.

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Mauricio Macri, mayor of Buenos Aires, with supporters on Sunday night.

Elections in Argentina, Poland and Four Other Nations: Why They Matter

Compiled by KAREN ZRAICK

Argentina, Poland, Tanzania, Guatemala, Haiti and Ivory Coast held elections on Sunday. Here is a rundown of major issues and candidates in each country, with links to New York Times coverage.

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A rebel examined a military aircraft destroyed by NATO in Wadi Dufaan, Libya, in 2011.

Libya: America’s First, and Latest, Target

By PATRICK J. LYONS

The United States has a longer history of military intervention in what is now Libya than in any other country, dating from the Jefferson administration and America’s first foreign war.

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Uganda’s Least Equal Voters: The L.G.B.T.I.

By NICHOLAS OPIYO

One hate law has been overturned, but the government still finds ways to silence and punish L.G.B.T.I. activists and groups.

EDITORIAL

United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic.

A Tale of Horror at the United Nations

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

The organization is failing some of the world’s most vulnerable children by not cracking down on sexually abusive peacekeeping troops.

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On Patrol With the Black Mambas

Photographs by JULIA GUNTHER

Portraits of a majority-female South African anti-poaching squad.

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The Global Refugee Crisis, Region by Region

By PATRICK BOEHLER and SERGIO PEÇANHA

In the latest crisis, tens of thousands are racing to Hungary before a border fence is finished.

LENS BLOG

South Africa’s Pantsula Dancers Bring Life to the Streets

By WHITNEY RICHARDSON

Pantsula, a South African dance that is more like a way of life, captivated Chris Saunders, who set out to document a subculture with roots in jazz and hip-hop.

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Illuminating a Central African Crisis, Photo by Photo

By JAMES ESTRIN

While the world was watching the funeral of Nelson Mandela, Jerome Delay made it his mission to remain in the violence-wracked Central African Republic, hoping to shed light on the crisis there.

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Inside Nairobi’s Devastated Westgate Mall

More than a week after militants killed scores of people in the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya, investigators sought clues to the attack. These are among the first pictures to emerge from inside the mall since the investigation began.

Nelson Mandela, who led the emancipation of South Africa from white minority rule and was his country’s first black president, becoming an international emblem of dignity and forbearance, died on Thursday. He was 95.

Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s Liberator as Prisoner and President, Dies at 95

By BILL KELLER

Mr. Mandela’s quest for freedom in South Africa’s system of white rule took him from the court of tribal royalty to the liberation underground to a prison cell to the presidency.