The chief executive of OrphanAid Africa, a nonprofit that helps children separated from their families, started her professional life at Vogue magazine.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has started a three-nation Africa trip that includes a visit to Niger, a leading producer of uranium.

Interviews with pregnant women in Ghana, which has a high rate of stillbirths, suggest that those who slept on their sides had a lower risk of stillbirth.

It is unsettling to be implicated in a national scandal, but any debate on homosexuality in an African country is itself progress.