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A judge in Mali has charged four people in the kidnapping of a Colombian nun in February. Prosecutor General Boubacar Sidiki Samake said Wednesday that four Malians were arrested Tuesday as part of investigations into the abduction of Gloria Cecilia Narvaez Argoti. Armed gunmen seized her in the village of...

Making his first official visit to Washington, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s meeting this week with U.S. President Donald Trump would be a significant step in the international rehabilitation of the general-turned-politician who was kept out of the Obama White House. But, analysts caution, there may not be much...

South Sudanese government troops burned thousands of civilians’ homes late last year, monitors of the country’s troubled peace agreement said Friday, making some of the strongest allegations yet against security forces in the three-year civil war. The new report says three villages in the southern Yei...

The United Nations commission of inquiry for South Sudan now has broader powers to pursue human rights abuses like mass rape and torture in the country’s three-year civil war. The U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday gave the commission the ability to collect and preserve evidence and point the finger at...

King Mohammed VI has sacked Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane. On Wednesday, March 15, the palace issued a statement which read, in part: “His Majesty has decided to name another political figure from the Party of Justice and Development [PJD] as the new head of government. […] His Majesty will, very shortly,...

From kitchen items to livestock and even her house, Assa Mkwananzi says she has “lost it all” to floods that have hit southern Zimbabwe. “We lost all our blankets, pots and cooking utensils, our goats and chickens as well because of the heavy rains,” Mkwananzi told The Associated Press in...

The United Nations says aid workers in a famine-stricken region of South Sudan have been forced to relocate because of insecurity, complicating efforts to help more than 100,000 affected people. The U.N. statement Tuesday said 28 aid workers had to leave Mayendit county in Unity State. The U.N. and South Sudan...

The United Nations says its forces used attack helicopters to subdue rebels in Central African Republic. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Monday that about 40 heavily armed rebels were just a few kilometers (mile) away from the town of Bambari. Dujarric says “the peacekeeping mission intervened by air...

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the United Nations needs $4.4 billion by the end of next month to prevent “a catastrophe” of hunger and famine in South Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen. Just $90 million has been collected so far. Guterres said Wednesday that over 20 million people altogether...