Africa
Attackers shoot 15 dead in South Sudan, including local commissioner, says official
Unidentified youths shot dead 15 people in South Sudan’s Pibor region, including its commissioner, a senior official said on Wednesday, in the ...South Sudan shutters all schools as it prepares for an extreme heat wave
BY DENG MACHOL AP South Sudan’s government is closing down all schools starting Monday as the country prepares for a wave of extreme ...UN warns of catastrophic hunger in Sudan in coming months
By Michelle Nichols Reuters Nearly five million people in Sudan could suffer catastrophic hunger in parts of the war-torn country in the ...US, UK, French military shoot down Houthi drones after attack on bulk carrier, destroyers
U.S., French and British forces downed dozens of drones in the Red Sea area overnight and on Saturday after Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis targeted bulk ...Gunmen kidnap 15 students in dawn raid on Nigerian school
By Hamza Ibrahim Reuters Gunmen kidnapped at least 15 students from a school in Nigeria’s northwestern Sokoto state in a dawn raid ...West Africa bloc lifts coup sanctions on Niger in a new push for dialogue to ...
BY CHINEDU ASADU AP West Africa’s regional bloc known as ECOWAS said Saturday that it is lifting travel and economic sanctions imposed on Niger ...G20 says two-state solution only answer to Israel-Palestinian conflict
By Lisandra Paraguassu and Anthony Boadle Reuters Foreign ministers at the G20 group of nations meeting in Brazil were nearly unanimous in ...Dozens dead in Papua New Guinea tribal violence
Dozens of bloodied bodies have been found along a remote stretch of road in Papua New Guinea’s highlands, police said Monday, a ...Thousands homeless after DR Congo’s worst floods in sixty years
By Benoit Nyemba and Ange Adihe Kasongo Reuters In a makeshift camp for people displaced by floods in Democratic Republic of Congo, ...Senegal battles first major wave of unrest over vote delay
By Ngouda Dione and Cooper Inveen Reuters Clashes between security forces and protesters on Friday gripped Senegal’s capital and other cities, the ...