(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...
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) – At both ends of the African continent, there is macabre drama being played out over migration. At the southern tip of the continent,...
(Reuters) – An Indonesian firing squad executed eight drug traffickers, including seven foreigners, in the early hours of Wednesday, sparking condemnation from Australia and Brazil who had made final,...
ERICK KAGLAN, Associated Press LOME, Togo (AP) — Togo’s main opposition leader on Wednesday rejected provisional results that declared the re-election of the president for a...
DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — When Angeline Jackson and a friend were ambushed at gunpoint and sexually assaulted on a wooded trail outside...
BARKING, UK (Politico) — For as long as modern Britons have voted, politics here has revolved around class. But this year, Britain is having its first...
WASHINGTON (McClatchy) — The unusual announcement by President Barack Obama last week that a U.S. strike on an al Qaida compound in Pakistan inadvertently had killed two...
(BBC) – Burundi has been hit by a new wave of protests as opposition to President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid for a third term grows. Gunfire was...
Katy Daigle and Binaj Gurubacharya, ASSOCIATED PRESS KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — As the death toll from Nepal’s devastating earthquake climbed past 4,000, aid workers and officials...
Mohammed Mukhashaf, REUTERS ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) — The humanitarian situation in Yemen has become catastrophic, relief officials said on Monday, as Saudi-led aircraft pounded Iran-allied Houthi...
