Africa
Burkina Faso police fire tear gas at protest against militant violence
Police fired tear gas in Burkina Faso’s capital on Saturday during a demonstration against the government’s failure to stop a wave of ...Islamist car bomb attack kills at least eight in Somalia
At least eight people were killed in Somalia’s capital on Thursday when Islamist militants launched a suicide attack on a U.N. security ...Number of children recruited into conflict grows in West and Central Africa
West and Central Africa has recorded the highest number of children recruited into conflict of any region in the world, and the ...Sudan’s military to reinstate ousted Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok
Sudan’s military plans to reinstate Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and release all political detainees under a deal to end weeks of deadly ...U.N. climate agreement clinched after late drama over coal
U.N. climate talks ended Saturday with a deal that for the first time targeted fossil fuels as the key driver of global ...Protesters face tear gas and bullets to oppose Sudan coup
Five protesters were killed on Saturday as huge crowds took to the streets in the Sudanese capital Khartoum and other cities to ...Argument over coal phase-out holds up UN climate conference deal
Last-minute wrangling over commitments to phase out coal power held up a deal at the U.N. climate conference on Saturday that conference ...Togo says repelled possible militant attack near Burkina Faso border
Togolese security forces repulsed an attack this week by unidentified armed men who had crossed its northern border with Burkina Faso, the ...World powers meet to push for elections in politically fragile Libya
World powers meet in France on Friday to push for elections in Libya by year-end and endorse efforts to remove foreign forces ...World heading for 2.4C of warming after latest climate pledges -analysts
New national pledges to tackle climate change this decade would lead to around 2.4 degrees Celsius of global warming this century, far ...














