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More than 1,000 people have died from the mudslide and flood that hit Sierra Leone’s capital nearly two weeks ago, a local leader and a minister said Sunday during services honoring the disaster’s victims. The government had earlier put the death toll for the Aug. 14 mudslide at 450 dead, while...

Angolans voted Wednesday in an election in which the defense minister is the front-runner to succeed President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who will step down after 38 years in power in an oil-rich country beset by widespread poverty and corruption. About 9.3 million Angolans were registered to vote for the 220-member...

Police say two Burundian teens who disappeared from an international robotics competition in Washington have been found safe. A Metropolitan Police statement Tuesday said Don Ingabire and Audrey Mwamikazi, who were seen crossing into Canada, “have been located safely.” A police spokesman declined to...

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...