NNPA NEWSWIRE — An estimated 13 million are facing severe hunger mostly because of droughts that have afflicted the Horn of Africa, and those in Ethiopia,...
THE BURTON WIRE — The North African Country of Sudan is in crisis. After the forced and successful removal of president Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled with...
HIPPOLYTE MARBOUA, Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — A civilian staff member with the United Nations mission in Central African Republic is alleged to...
GENEVA (AP) — United Nations staff turned up a case of sexual abuse of a girl by a French soldier in Central African Republic, the U.N....
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief has fired the head of the peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic over the...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic said Thursday it has launched an investigation into an allegation...
Krista Larson, ASSOCIATED PRESS DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Armed groups in Central African Republic freed more than 350 child soldiers Thursday in the largest such release...
HIPPOLYTE MARBOUA, Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Militia fighters have released a government minister seized more than two weeks ago in Central African...
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network Jan. 27 (GIN)—It’s election time in nearly a dozen African countries, and the wish of some leaders...
MATTHEW PENNINGTON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of people were forced from their homes because of their religious beliefs last year, the U.S. government said...
KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Fighters on both sides of the conflict in Central African Republic are living freely despite committing war crimes...
HIPPOLYTE MARBOUA, Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Violence in Central African Republic pitting Muslim fighters against Christian civilians has killed 21 people so...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama ordered sanctions Tuesday against five people tied to sectarian violence in the Central African Republic and cleared the way...
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Thursday unanimously approved a nearly 12,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force for Central African...
[Slate] An intensely moving AP story from Carnot, a city in the Central African Republic: The Christian militiamen know hundreds of Muslims are hiding here on the grounds...
[AFP] Addis Ababa — Conflict in the Central African Republic and South Sudan dominated the agenda as Africa’s leaders met in Ethiopia Thursday for a two-day...
KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rebels in Central African Republic decimated a mostly Christian village earlier this month, burning down dozens of homes,...
[Voice of America] UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations says thousands of children have been killed, injured, tortured or recruited into militias and armies in the past...
[Los Angeles Times] JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Uganda‘s military has suspended its hunt for notorious warlord Joseph Kony after rebels toppled the president of the Central African Republic last month. Kony,...