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The now month-long kidnapping of a few hundred Nigerian girls by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram has drawn global attention to something that Nigerians have known for years: their country is dealing with problems that go even deeper than Boko...

IRIN KAMPALA, 14 November 2016 Samuel Okiror The alarm has been raised over the threat of genocide in South Sudan, with civilians increasingly targeted and persecuted in a scorched earth counter-insurgency campaign waged by government forces and their...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) South Sudan’s First Vice President Riek Machar, commander of opposition forces in the world’s newest country, has called on his troops to respect the ceasefire called for Monday by the country’s president, Salva Kiir. Kiir had earlier...

South Sudan’s information minister says the government is “in full control” of the capital, Juba, despite the United Nations reporting that the weekend’s deadly violence had carried into Sunday. Church services were interrupted by fighting between troops...

Washington is all abuzz about an unprecedented summit this week between President Obama and more than 50 presidents, prime ministers and leaders from across the African continent, as Obama attempts to justify the incredibly high expectations Africans...