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Amnesty International’s new leader said Wednesday his first act is writing to Zimbabwe’s next president about the disappearance of activist Itai Dzamara: “Whoever leads the new government must move to undo the injustices of the past.” Kumi Naidoo, a South African-born former...

An Ethiopian official says a notorious special police force in the country’s Somali region killed 41 people and wounded 20 others as ethnic violence poses a challenge to the reformist new prime minister. Local spokesman Miski Mohammed says the Liyu Police attacked Sunday in East...

Burkina Faso State TV reports that five gendarmes and one civilian have been killed between the rural communes of Boungou and Ougarou in the nation’s far east. It reports the vehicle hit an explosive device late Saturday while gendarmes were escorting mining workers to their...

A man wearing an explosives belt attempted to attack a Coptic Christian church north of Cairo but failed to enter before blowing himself up, Egyptian security officials said Saturday. The man tried to enter the church in Mostorod district in Qaliubiya province with churchgoers...

The U.N. Security Council on Friday strongly condemned “the rise of incitement to ethnic and religious hatred and violence” in the Central African Republic and attacks by Boko Haram and the Islamic State extremist groups in the broader region. A presidential statement approved by...

South Sudan’s president has granted amnesty to armed opposition leader Riek Machar and all rebel groups days after signing a power-sharing agreement in the latest effort to end a five-year civil war. The South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation reported the announcement by President...

The U.N. says Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has told Zimbabwe’s president to ensure that security forces “show maximum restraint” and urged its opposition leader to pursue electoral grievances through legal channels. U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said Tuesday that the...

Congo’s health ministry is preparing to begin Ebola vaccinations Wednesday in the eastern city of Beni and neighboring Mangina village where the outbreak was announced last week, the ministry said. The vaccination campaign will target health care providers, contacts of confirmed...

Two car bombs hit Somalia on Sunday, killing six people. Somalia’s Islamic extremist rebels claimed responsibility for the first suicide car bomb blast that that killed four people when it exploded near the gate of a military base in Afgoye town, 30 kilometers (18 miles)...

Congo opposition leader Moise Katumbi was stuck at a border crossing on Friday as he attempted to return after more than two years in exile and submit his candidacy for December’s presidential election. A large crowd of supporters gathered in Kasumbalesa at the border with Zambia...