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The Israeli government acknowledged Tuesday it cannot expel African migrants against their will and has canceled all pending deportation orders. In a statement to the Supreme Court, the state says: “It is not possible to implement expulsions to a third country without (migrants’)...

Officials in Nigeria say gunmen have killed 15 people in an early-morning attack on a Catholic church, including two priests. The attack took place in Ayar-Mbalom, a community in Benue state. Terver Akase, a media aide to the Benue state governor, says the attackers also burned...

Everyone and everything is a target in South Sudan’s civil war, as attacks against health facilities and aid workers increase, a new report says. At least 50 medical institutions were attacked in 2016 and 2017, says the report released Monday by the New York-based Watchlist on...

Scores of nurses demonstrated in Zimbabwe’s capital on Friday after the government fired 16,000 of them from public hospitals for demanding better working conditions and higher pay. The protest, during which the nurses offered a free clinic to passers-by, was a test of the new...

Officials say the next round of South Sudan peace talks has been delayed without explanation. The talks were meant to resume next week in neighboring Ethiopia, mediated by a regional bloc. The discussions have sought an end to South Sudan’s civil war, now well into its fifth...

More than 200 child soldiers were released by armed groups in war-torn South Sudan, part of a series of releases that will see almost 1,000 children freed in the coming months. An estimated 19,000 children are believed to be in armed forces amid the country’s 5-year civil war,...

Three commissioners from Kenya’s electoral commission Monday said they’ve resigned over the suspension of the body’s chief executive officer who was sent on compulsory leave to pave the way for wider investigations into the commission’s conduct in last year’s elections. The three...

Islamic extremists made Imana Alhaji Gana’s village in northeastern Nigeria too dangerous for health workers to vaccinate against polio. Now that she and her family have fled to a displacement camp, those workers want to catch her children in time. Here in the camps housing...

The flood of South Sudanese refugees from the country’s 5-year civil war has been called a children’s crisis. More than 60 percent of the well over one million refugees who have poured into neighboring Uganda are under the age of 18, government and United Nations officials say....

A pride of lions has been killed by suspected poisoning in one of Uganda’s major protected areas, a wildlife official said Friday. Eleven lions were found dead in the popular Queen Elizabeth National Park, said Jossy Muhangi, a spokesman for the Uganda Wildlife Authority. The...