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About 1,340 returnees in the Alali area of Akobo County, Jonglei State, remain without food and access to basic healthcare services, a month after they arrived from the Pinyudo refugee camp in Ethiopia.

The returnees, mainly women and children, started …

June 14, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - The African Union delegation discussed with the Sudanese officials the involvement of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council in the negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

Yasser Abbas, the …

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa has been gripped by the mystery of whether a woman has, as has been claimed, actually given birth to 10 babies, in what would then be the world's first recorded case of decuplets.

Gosiame Thamara Sithole …

The U.S. has condemned Nigeria’s continuing ban of Twitter in the country, saying the action “has no place in a democracy.”

“Freedom of expression and access to information both online and offline are foundational to prosperous and secure democratic societies,” …

WASHINGTON - In September 2019, Simon Marks moved to Ethiopia, drawn by the rapid changes following its shift in leadership and declaration of peace with neighboring Eritrea after a war and decades of tensions. 

Since then, he has reported on …

A promise Monday by Mali’s new interim president to hold democratic elections by early next year appears to meet some conditions set by France to resume recently suspended cooperation with Malian forces. But some hope Paris is slowly heading for …

Western military experts are assessing whether an autonomous drone operated by artificial intelligence, or AI, killed people — in Libya last year — for the first time without a human controller directing it remotely to do so.

A report by …

The U.S. and the European Union voiced concern over Nigeria's decision to indefinitely ban Twitter after the U.S. social media giant deleted a tweet from the president's account for violating its rules.

International human rights groups have also condemned the …

Bicycling enthusiasts around the globe are celebrating World Bicycle Day Thursday, including in Somalia, a Horn of Africa nation still struggling for stability after years of conflict. Somalia's cycling federation was just recognized last year and with poor roads and …