DANICA KIRKA, Associated Press JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British voters streamed to schools, churches and pubs Thursday for a say in their country’s...
HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press GAIDAM, Nigeria (AP) — Niger troops have deported more than 3,000 Nigerian fishermen and refugees escaping Boko Haram, forcing them to undertake...
FARAI MUTSAKA, Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Nurses in Zimbabwe are refusing to work the night shift in the southern African nation’s public hospitals and...
(BBC) – The wave of xenophobic attacks seems to have died down for now but the issue of immigration remains controversial. South Africans have turned out...
(Reuters) – Libya’s coast guard detained on Wednesday almost 600 illegal African migrants, among them pregnant women and 18 children, who had tried to sail...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — A year ago, a dozen Nigerian troops fighting about 200 Boko Haram militants in the town of Chibok...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — There is so much freedom in Uganda that it’s nearly anarchy, the country’s president joked, stepping carefully around...
(BBC) – Victims of Ivory Coast’s post-election conflict will start receiving payouts in July, authorities say. Some 74,000 registered victims are eligible for compensation from...
BRADLEY KLAPPER, Associated Press ANDREW HARNIK, Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Two decades after dead American soldiers were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, John...
(Politico) – Sunday, January 30, 2011. Two hundred thousand people occupied Egypt’s Tahrir Square, defying a military curfew to demand the ouster of President Hosni...
ARON HELLER, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — When Israel secretly airlifted waves of Ethiopian Jews in the 1980s and 1990s, saving them from war and famine...
ARON HELLER, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — When Israel secretly airlifted waves of Ethiopian Jews in the 1980s and 1990s, saving them from war and famine...
Maryam Shah, THE TORONTO SUN TORONTO (The Toronto Sun) — Hundreds assembled in Toronto Saturday to show solidarity with protesters in Baltimore. Around 400 people gathered in...
Aaron Heller, ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s ceremonial president said Monday that an outbreak of violent protests by Ethiopian Jews has “exposed an open,...
Katy Daigle and Todd Pitman, ASSOCIATED PRESS MAJUWA, Nepal (AP) — With help still not reaching some isolated villages a week after Nepal’s devastating earthquake, a...
BERLIN (AP) — Left-wing groups and trade unions were staging rallies around the world Friday to mark International Workers Day. Most events were peaceful protests for...
LAGOS (The Daily Beast) — “I was asked to kill my parents on the day I was captured,” said 16-year-old Babagana, a former Boko Haram...
Haruna Umar and Michelle Faul, ASSOCIATED PRESS MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Scores more women and children have been rescued from Islamic extremists in the remote...
Hippolyte Marboua and Angela Charlton, ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Residents of a squalid refugee camp said Thursday that French soldiers tasked with...
(BBC) – Kenya’s interior minister has said security officers ignored intelligence reports prior to the attack on Garissa University College earlier this month. Joseph Nkaisserry, who...
(BBC) – At least 200 Senegalese died in the boat disaster off the coast of Libya earlier this month, officials say. More than 750 migrants are...
(Los Angeles Times) – Another Vietnam. Those two words have become a cautionary mantra over the 40 years since the fall of Saigon indelibly etched...
(BBC) – Nigeria’s military says it has freed another sizeable group of people during its offensive against Boko Haram militants in the vast Sambisa forest. One...
(BBC) – The Nigerian military says it has rescued 200 girls and 93 women from an area where the Islamist militant group Boko Haram is active....
(BBC) – The Nigerian military says it has rescued 200 girls and 93 women from an area where the Islamist militant group Boko Haram is active....