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Police in Zimbabwe have arrested an anti-government pastor after he circulated videos highlighting the country’s worsening economic problems. Defense lawyer Harrison Nkomo says pastor Evan Mawarire, who last year organized the county’s biggest protests in a decade, has been...

She had been orphaned by a brutal conflict, but the 14-year-old Congolese girl found refuge in a camp protected by United Nations peacekeepers. The camp should have been safe the day she was raped. A delegation from the U.N. was paying a visit, and her grandmother had left her in...

The Security Council backed reforms Wednesday to reduce inefficiencies, corruption and abuse in the U.N.’s far-flung peacekeeping operations, a key priority of the Trump administration at the U.N. General Assembly. Vice President Mike Pence cast the approval vote for the United...

A 10-year-old boy was killed and 10 others injured in Togo’s capital as hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters demonstrated Wednesday against a vote by the West African nation’s parliament on a bill they fear will allow the president to run for more terms, the...

The U.N. refugee agency is calling on Congo’s government to ensure protection for refugees and asylum-seekers after Congolese soldiers shot and killed at least 39 Burundian protesters, including a child. The agency said Tuesday that many of the dead and the 94 wounded were...

Thirteen people, including 12 Tanzanian nationals, have been killed in a motor accident on a highway in central Uganda, police said Monday. Most of the victims were traveling in a minibus that crashed head-on with a truck on Sunday night, Ugandan police spokesman Asan Kasingye...

Nigeria’s government says President Muhammadu Buhari will fly through London on his way home from next week’s United Nations gathering of world leaders, raising more questions about his health. Presidential spokesman Femi Adesina gave no details about the London stop...

A man accused of conspiring to bomb a Kansas apartment complex housing Somali refugees argued Wednesday that he was unaware his co-defendants intended to carry out the attack. Gavin Wright made the argument in a redacted, 93-page court motion filed by his attorney that offers the...

South African leaders on Tuesday marked the 40th anniversary of the death of Steve Biko, the anti-apartheid activist and black consciousness leader who died in police custody after being severely beaten. The 1977 killing deprived the campaign against white minority rule of a...

Islamic extremist fighters killed four Somali government soldiers and briefly took a town near the border with Kenya Monday, and a separate bomb blast in the capital killed one person, officials said. A dawn attack on the southern town of Beled-Hawo started with a suicide car...