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SUDAN, EGYPT SIGN MOU ON EARTHQUAKE MONITORING, MINERAL EXPLORATION
The memorandum also stipulates cadre training, monitoring of the dams, reservoirs and mines and road construction... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDAN ELECTION RISKS PROLONGING CIVIL WAR
South Sudan's plan to hold elections next year risks deepening and extending an already devastating civil war, the United Nations warned... READ MORE›
LIBYAN MIGRANT DETENTION CENTRE: 'IT'S LIKE HELL'
He is behind bars in the Triq al-Sika detention centre in Tripoli, along with around 1,000 other men... READ MORE›
U.S. SANCTIONS SOUTH SUDAN OFFICIALS FOR ALLEGEDLY ENRICHING THEMSELVES AMID CIVIL WAR, FAMINE
Officials from the United Nations and donor countries have visited South Sudan recently to urge Kiir to participate in peace negotiations... READ MORE›
S SUDAN: GANG-RAPE VICTIM TESTIFIES AGAINST 12 SOLDIERS
Human rights workers monitoring the trial have praised the woman's decision to return to South Sudan to give her testimony... READ MORE›
AFRICA'S 'HEALTH TOURISM' PRESIDENTS MUST BE ASHAMED
Motsoaledi was speaking during a World Health Organization WHO meeting of African health ministers in Zimbabwe... READ MORE›
SUDANESE PRESIDENT PARDONS, FREES RIGHT ACTIVIST HELD SINCE DECEMBER 2016
Just before leaving office, former U.S. President Barack Obama temporarily eased penalties against Sudan, suspending a trade embargo, unfreezing assets and removing sanctions... READ MORE›
EUROPEAN LEADERS AGREE NEW ASYLUM POLICY FOR AFRICANS
In parallel, the European leaders agreed to help Chad and Niger with border control to stem illegal migration... READ MORE›
HOW TRUMP CAN STOP THE FOUR FAMINES
Now a worthy target is crying out for President Trump's extraordinary reach The so-called four famines that currently afflict South Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen... READ MORE›
AFRICA'S NEXT GENOCIDE? UN SOUNDS ALARM ON VIOLENCE IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
In France, Emmanuel Macron battles record low popularity as his government prepares to push through a host of reforms. Finally, PSG coughs up again... READ MORE›
AFRICA'S NEXT GENOCIDE? UN SOUNDS ALARM ON VIOLENCE IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
In France, Emmanuel Macron battles record low popularity as his government prepares to push through a host of reforms. Finally, PSG coughs up again... READ MORE›
SUDAN PRESIDENT VOWS TO MAKE DARFUR REGION FREE OF ARMS
Al-Bashir on Wednesday met in Khartoum with North Darfur State Governor Abdul-Wahid Yousif... READ MORE›
CRIME WAVE STALKS SOUTH SUDAN'S CAPITAL AS WAR RUINS ECONOMY
Police spokesman Daniel Justin Buolo acknowledged this month's rise in crime, but said there was no cause for alarm... READ MORE›
THE WORLD'S LARGEST REFUGEE SETTLEMENT YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF
The largest of the settlements hosting refugees from South Sudan is Bidi Bidi... READ MORE›
ONE MILLION SOUTH SUDAN REFUGEES NOW IN UGANDA, SAYS UN
An average of 1,800 South Sudanese citizens have been arriving daily in Uganda over the past 12 months, the UNHCR said in a statement... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDAN REFUGEES FACE LONG EXILE IN CAMPS
Grandi said the refugees had to remain hopeful of returning to their country, but a lot depended on when South Sudan becomes stable... READ MORE›
UN INVESTIGATES KILLING OF 25 PEOPLE IN SOUTH SUDAN
Thousands of people have already died in South Sudan from a four-year civil war pitting forces loyal to incumbent President Salva Kiir and his former deputy, Riek Machar... READ MORE›
IN SOUTH SUDAN, A CHILD SOLDIER THOUGHT LONG DEAD IS REUNITED WITH HIS MOTHER
It was December 2015, a year after Nyayan Koang's boy was abducted by government soldiers at the age of just 14 to fight in the South Sudan Army... READ MORE›
RISK OF MASS KILLING ROSE MOST IN YEMEN IN 2016
Yemen rises as Syria tops UK-based rights group's annual 'People's Under Threat' index for third consecutive year... READ MORE›
NW AID GROUPS WORLD VISION, MERCY CORPS JOIN NEW EFFORT TO EASE AFRICA FAMINE
The most hard-hit countries are Yemen, just across the Gulf of Aden from Africa, Somalia, Nigeria and South Sudan... READ MORE›
AFRICAN STATES SILENTLY MARK THE CONTINENT'S INAUGURAL ANTI-CORRUPTION DAY
The African Union has also declared 2018 as the African Anti-Corruption Year... READ MORE›
UN MISSION CONFIRMS IMPROVEMENT OF SECURITY SITUATION IN SUDAN'S DARFUR
The United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur UNAMID Joint Special Representative, Jeremiah Mamabolo, speaks at a press conference in Khartoum, Sudan, July 10, 2017... READ MORE›
STARVATION, EXODUS AND GENOCIDE SEES WORLD'S NEWEST NATION SOUTH SUDAN SUFFER
CARE Australia says that since famine was declared in South Sudan in March, the agency has raised just 113,000 for its East Africa Hunger Crisis appeal... READ MORE›
ICC: S AFRICA BROKE RULES BY FAILING TO ARREST BASHIR
Icc's africa broke rules by failing to arrest bashir... READ MORE›
AFRICA'S PLACE AT THE 15-YEAR-OLD INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
A South African High Court, later in 2017, ruled that the government's move to withdraw from the International Criminal Court was unconstitutional and invalid... READ MORE›
FEARFUL SUDAN REFUGEES IN EGYPT AWAITING U.S. RESETTLEMENT DEALT BLOW BY TRUMP TRAVEL BAN
Officials, and had hoped to be approved for resettlement in Kansas or Minnesota, states with large Sudanese communities... READ MORE›
SOUTH AFRICAN COURT BARS SCHOOLS FROM PROMOTING ONE RELIGION OVER ANOTHER
EYE ON AFRICA In this edition a South African court bars state schools from promoting any one religion over another. Also, Uganda houses almost a mill..... READ MORE›
THOSE WHO SAY THE REFUGEE CRISIS IS NOT OUR PROBLEM, ARE THE PROBLEM
Two-hundred-and-eighty-thousand South Sudanese refugees who've had to flee extraordinary violence live there... READ MORE›
WORLD LEADERS CONVERGE IN UGANDA FOR FIRST REFUGEE SOLIDARITY SUMMIT
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is in Uganda to co-chair the Summit together with President Yoweri Museveni... READ MORE›
U.N. CHIEF WARNS TRUMP THAT OTHERS WILL FILL LEADERSHIP ROLE IF U.S. DISENGAGES FROM WORLD
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Trump administration on Tuesday that if the United States disengages from many issues confronting the in... READ MORE›
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POPE DENOUNCES DONALD TRUMP SAYING 'BUILD BRIDGES' NOT WALLS
The pope didn't refer to President Donald Trump in his comments... READ MORE›
NORWAY IS THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH
The World Happiness Report was released to coincide with the United Nations' International Day of Happiness on 20 March... READ MORE›
WORLD FACES WORST HUMANITARIAN CRISIS SINCE 1945, SAYS UN OFFICIAL
Twenty million people face starvation without an immediate injection of funds in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria, warns Stephen O'Brien... READ MORE›
UGANDA'S OPEN-DOOR POLICY SAGS AMID CRUSH OF REFUGEES FROM SOUTH SUDAN
But a three-year civil war has sent 700,000 South Sudanese refugees fleeing, many to their southern neighbor... READ MORE›
THE HAPPIEST COUNTRY ON EARTH THE WINNER IS
That boosted the per person annual income, as measured by economic output, to more than 100,000 -- nearly double that of the United States... READ MORE›
MUSLIM AMERICAN ACTIVIST VOWS TO HELP JEWISH CEMETERY WHERE HUNDREDS OF HEADSTONES WERE VANDALISED
A 26 year-old bodyboarder was attacked by a shark while bodyboarding in a dangerous water area on February 21, 2017 off Saint-Andre... READ MORE›
ARMY ATTACK PROMPTS MASS EXODUS FROM SOUTH SUDAN
Michael Makuei, South Sudan government spokesman, confirmed its forces had attacked Pajok... READ MORE›
A CHILD IN YEMEN DIES EVERY 10 MINUTES AS HUMANITARIAN AID FUNDING FALLS SHORT, U.N. SAYS
A broader call for 4.4 billion to address food crises in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria is still unfulfilled... READ MORE›
TRUMP'S ORDER TO BAN REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS TRIGGERS FEARS ACROSS THE GLOBE
Some Sudanese refugees in Cairo have spent years in Egypt seeking resettlement to the United States and Europe... READ MORE›
WHY TRUMP'S PLAN TO SLASH U.N. FUNDING COULD LEAD TO GLOBAL CALAMITY
Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations appointed by Trump, said in a statement on Thursday that in many areas, the U.N... READ MORE›
UGANDA AT BREAKING POINT AS BIDI BIDI BECOMES WORLD'S LARGEST REFUGEE CAMP
Initially, the UN expected roughly 300,000 South Sudanese refugees to come to Uganda in 2017... READ MORE›
IVF HOPED TO SAVE NORTHERN WHITE RHINO FROM EXTINCTION
The world's three last rhinos live in Kenya's Ol Pejeta conservancy and just one of them, ageing Sudan, is male... READ MORE›
TRUMP'S PLAN TO SLASH FOREIGN AID COMES AS FAMINE THREAT IS SURGING
Last year, the United States contributed 6.4 billion in humanitarian aid, according to the United Nations, more than a quarter of global funding... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | IN SOMALIA, A DROUGHT KILLED 110 PEOPLE IN JUST 48 HOURS
In Somalia a drought killed 110 people in just 48 hours... READ MORE›
WHY 20 MILLION PEOPLE ARE ON BRINK OF FAMINE IN A WORLD OF PLENTY
UNITED NATIONS -- In a world filled with excess food, 20 million people are on the brink of famine, including 1.4 million children at imminent risk of death... READ MORE›
UN CHIEF: WORLD MUST ACT TO AVERT FAMINE IN SOMALIA
The World Health Organization WHO has warned there are just two months left to avert what would be Somalia's third famine in 25 years... READ MORE›
SIX AID WORKERS KILLED IN AN AMBUSH IN SOUTH SUDAN
Six aid workers have been killed in an ambush in famine-hit South Sudan, the United Nations said on Sunday, without specifying what organisation they worked for... READ MORE›
THE U.N. ASKED FOR BILLIONS TO AVERT FOUR HUNGER CRISES. THE MONEY DIDN'T ARRIVE.
In South Sudan, the United Nations says that 2,800 people are fleeing worsening violence and looming famine every day... READ MORE›
ETHIOPIA REPORTS DEADLY RAID BY GUNMEN FROM SOUTH SUDAN
He said Ethiopian troops have not crossed the border into South Sudan in pursuit of the accused attackers... READ MORE›
CHOLERA KILLS 115 PEOPLE FROM LATE APRIL TO MAY
More than 8,000 people have been killed since the Saudi-led Arab coalition intervened to support Yemen's government in 2015, according to the WHO... READ MORE›
DUOP CAN YOU HEAR ME A CHILD SOLDIER TRIES TO GO HOME AGAIN
But Unicef officials said there was nowhere in South Sudan that had the specialists Duop needed. Duop retreated to a cot in his aunt's shack... READ MORE›
REPORT: U.N. GAVE ARMS TO SOUTH SUDAN REBELS LATER IMPLICATED IN MASSACRE
The United Nations established a peacekeeping mission in South Sudan in 2011 that has grown to more than 13,000 soldiers and police officers... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDAN PLANE CRASHES, ALL 49 PASSENGERS, CREW SURVIVE
A passenger plane crash-landed and burned in Wau, northwestern South Sudan on Monday, but all 49 passengers and crew survived, an airport official said... READ MORE›
FAMINE DECLARED IN PART OF SOUTH SUDAN'S UNITY STATE
This famine is man-made, said Joyce Luma, head of the World Food Programme in South Sudan... READ MORE›
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO LIFT SOME SANCTIONS AGAINST SUDAN
The United States has extremely limited diplomatic contact with Sudan, although in 2005, then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited and met with Bashir in the capital Khartoum... READ MORE›
'THEY SLEEP WHEN THEY'RE TOO HUNGRY'
'They sleep when they're too hungry' South Sudanese trapped by war, famine grow increasingly desperate... READ MORE›
2M CHILDREN DISPLACED BY SOUTH SUDAN CONFLICT
The civil war in South Sudan has forced more than two million children to flee their homes, according to two UN agencies... READ MORE›
JOSEPH KONY IS STILL AT LARGE. HERE'S WHY THE U.S. AND UGANDA WERE WILLING TO GIVE UP THE HUNT.
The Ugandan military faced allegations that soldiers committed rape and sexual violence against women and girls in the Central African Republic... READ MORE›
FAMINE DECLARED IN SOUTH SUDAN, WITH 100,000 PEOPLE FACING STARVATION
The United Nations has been alarmed by the recent deterioration in South Sudan... READ MORE›
UN AGENCIES URGE TRUMP TO ALLOW REFUGEES ENTRY
Some 25,000 refugees were resettled in the United States between October and year-end under UNHCR's program for the most vulnerable, the agency said on Friday... READ MORE›