(BBC) — The EU aims to bring 20,000 refugees to Europe in the next two years, as part of the plan, at a cost of...
Andrew Njuguna and Melanie Gouby, ASSOCIATED PRESS BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — Gunfire and explosions rang out Thursday as military forces backing an attempted coup...
Eileen Ng and Thanyarat Doksone, ASSOCIATED PRESS LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — Rohingya and Bangladeshis abandoned at sea by traffickers had nowhere to go Thursday...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (BBC) — Streets are deserted with markets, schools and hospitals shut in the densely populated city, reports say. The army said the lockdown...
(BBC) – South Africa’s high court has temporarily prevented the deportation of more than 300 undocumented migrants. Rights activists have criticised the arrests of more than...
(Salon) – Back in the 1890s, two newspapers, Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal, were battling it out for the...
(BBC) – Internet fraudsters in Ghana are easy to spot. The young men in fast cars have become such a conspicuous group that they even...
(BBC) – The biggest ever global school rankings have been published, with Asian countries in the top five places and African countries at the bottom. Singapore...
JEROME DELAY, Associated Press BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — About 2,000 people marched through a neighborhood of Burundi’s capital on Monday as police looked on, breaking the...
(Telegraph) – One-in-five murder victims around the world is Brazilian, Colombian or Venezuelan, a study has shown, despite the three countries containing less than four per cent of the...
(Reuters) – Almost all the migrants who died seeking a better life in Europe over the past quarter century vanished without trace, according to research...
Cara Anna, ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Refugees and migrants intercepted at sea will not “be sent back against their will,” the European Union’s...
Christopher Torchia, ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s main opposition group on Sunday chose its first black leader at a party congress, seeking to...
Jonathan Paye-Layleh and Krista Larson, ASSOCIATED PRESS MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — On the day Mercy Kennedy lost her mother to Ebola, it was hard to...
THANYARAT DOKSONE, Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s police chief announced the arrest of a powerful provincial mayor on Friday and said 50 police officers are...
TOKYO (AP) — A monkey born in a Japanese zoo will keep its name Charlotte, after all. Oita city officials settled a national debate over...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo is planning to go ahead and take action against a rebel group...
(BBC) – Two militants have attacked a business college in Potiskum in the north-eastern Nigerian state of Yobe. At least six students were seriously injured by...
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...
