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A Sudanese court has overturned a death sentence against a young woman who says she killed her husband when he tried to rape her, a defense lawyer said late Tuesday. The appeals court in Khartoum has replaced the death penalty with a five-year sentence, Al-Fateh Hussein, a lawyer...

A United Nations peacekeeper was killed on Tuesday in South Sudan when a U.N. convoy was attacked. Lieutenant Commander Ashraf Siddiqui from Bangladesh was part of a convoy protecting humanitarian workers traveling from Yei to Lasu in Central Equatoria province. Shots were fired...

South Sudan President Salva Kiir met again with rival Riek Machar on Monday in neighboring Sudan amid fragile efforts to end their country’s five-year civil war, while the new U.S. ambassador to Juba told The Associated Press the U.S. is skeptical of the latest talks. The meeting...

East Africa’s leaders say South Sudan opposition leader Riek Machar is not welcome in their countries except to join peace talks on his country’s five-year civil war. A communique after heads of state and government met in neighboring Ethiopia says Machar should be free to leave...

  The latest attempt at ending South Sudan’s five-year civil war failed Friday as President Salva Kiir rejected working again with rival Riek Machar after their first face-to-face meeting in almost two years. “This is simply because we have had enough of him,” government...

Eritrea’s president announced Wednesday he is sending a rare delegation to neighboring Ethiopia for peace talks, days after Ethiopia’s new prime minister took a major step toward calming deadly tensions with its decades-long rival. This is the first such delegation since 1998,...

Algeria’s education minister says the Algerian government is taking the “extreme measure” of temporarily suspending the entire country’s internet connection during national high school exams to stop cheating and the leaking of answers. Nouria Benghabrit told Algerian national...

  Disappointment and frustration swept over Brazilians who gathered at public squares, bars and parks across Latin America’s biggest country to watch their national team end up with a 1-1 tie in its opening World Cup match. In Rio de Janeiro, thousands jammed the downtown...

A man fatally stabbed two people on Thursday and wounded several others at a mosque near Cape Town before police shot and killed the attacker, authorities said. The assailant, believed to be in his thirties, charged police who had tried to persuade him to surrender after the...

South Sudan’s president and rebel leader have been invited to meet face-to-face next week for the first time in almost two years in an effort to end a five-year civil war. An opposition statement on Wednesday welcomed the invitation by Ethiopia’s prime minister for Riek Machar to...