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The Trump administration said Thursday that Somalis granted special immigration status in the U.S. can keep the designation, making them one of the few groups permitted to stay in the U.S. under a program that has allowed them to remain here for years. Somalia was first...

Burkina Faso’s army says its counterterror forces have captured some 60 extremists along the border with Mali and Niger during operations conducted since July 8. The military said Thursday its forces also dismantled several extremist bases and seized explosives. The border with...

  A Nigerian police official says authorities have arrested 22 Boko Haram extremist leaders and fighters responsible for the mass kidnapping of schoolgirls in Chibok and more than 50 suicide bombings. Borno State Police Commissioner Damian Chukwu says the arrests took place...

  Former U.S. President Barack Obama Monday praised Kenya’s president and opposition leader for working together but said this East African country must do more to end corruption. Obama, on his first visit to Africa since stepping down as president, commended President Uhuru...

Opposition supporters have stormed a police camp in Zimbabwe where officers were voting ahead of this month’s historic election without election officials present. The chaotic scenes circulating on social media have alarmed some in a country whose new president has pledged to...

A scandal over leaked data has hit Zimbabwe’s election after the ruling party sent personalized, unsolicited campaign messages to potential voters’ mobile phones. The opposition says thousands of supporters reported receiving the messages. “ZANU-PF has been caught with its hands...

South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, has canceled Independence Day celebrations for the third year in a row as its devastating civil war grinds on. Monday marks seven years since the country gained independence from Sudan, but five years of fighting have killed tens of...

  The leaders of South Sudan’s warring sides have agreed in principle on key issues for a possible accord to end the country’s civil war, now in its fifth year. According to a post on Facebook by South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, he met with rebel leader Riek Machar in...

  A journalist and human rights activist in Angola says he has been acquitted of charges that he insulted the state for reporting on alleged corruption involving a former attorney general. Rafael Marques de Morais announced the news Friday on Twitter. He and another...

Sierra Leone’s anti-corruption commission says a former vice president and former minister have been arrested as the West African nation’s new leader takes aim at graft. Commission spokesman Abubakarr Turay says former Vice President Victor Foh and former Minister of Mines and...