JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN — Political activists in South Sudan say mobile phone carrier Zain South Sudan illegally disrupted their telephone service, crippling their communications ahead of a planned anti-government protest.People’s Coalition on Civil Action C...
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WASHINGTON — Claims from Nigeria that the leader of one of the fastest-growing Islamic State terror group affiliates is dead are being met with extreme caution in the United States.Officials at the White House, Pentagon and State Department said Friday...
GENEVA — The World Food Program warns it will be forced to cut food rations for half-a-million people suffering from acute hunger in northeast Nigeria unless it receives urgently needed funding.Millions of people in Nigeria’s crisis-ridden Borno, Yobe ...
GENEVA — The U.N. human rights office has condemned a recent escalation of violent, deadly attacks and abusive treatment of migrants and asylum seekers, allegedly by both Libyan state and non-state agents.This month, the U.N. agency says at least five ...
Some days, all Tsimamorekm Aly eats is sugary water. He’s happy if there’s a handful of rice. But with six young kids and a wife to support, he often goes without.This is the fourth year that drought has devastated Aly’s home in southern Madagascar. No...
JOHANNESBURG — As Desmond Tutu turns 90 on Thursday, he remains indisputably the moral voice of South Africa. But age is catching up with him.The jovial emeritus archbishop retired in 2010 and rarely speaks in public, in a country that sometimes feels ...
The Kingdom of Lesotho is a landlocked territory in southern Africa with a population over 2 million.This project is reducing the vulnerability of agriculture, water systems, and livelihoods to climate change impacts across the country by establishing ...
JOHANNESBURG — A local jihadist leader and 18 fighters were killed during a military strike on their base in Mozambique's insurgency-hit north, a bloc of southern African nations said Saturday.Al-Qaida-linked jihadists have been terrorizing Mozambique'...