Africa
South Sudan president creates 28 new states, threat to peace
South Sudan\'s President Salva Kiir made a Christmas Eve decree dissolving the nation\'s 10 states and creating 28 new ones, a move ...Boko Haram violence forces 1 million children from school
The Boko Haram insurgency has kept more than one million children out of school, the UN children\'s agency reported, highlighting fears that ...Mali government declares 10-day state of emergency
Mali\'s government on Monday declared a ten-day state of emergency from midnight after what security sources say follows a series of threats ...World climate accord hailed as turning point from fossil fuels
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius presented a landmark global climate accord on Saturday, a "historic" measure for transforming the world\'s fossil fuel-driven ...Bodies found in Burundi after armed assaults
Horrified residents awoke Saturday to at least 39 dead bodies scattered in the streets of the Burundi capital, Bujumbura, a day after ...Gambia president declares country an Islamic republic
Gambia\'s President Yahya Jammeh on Friday declared the formerly secular country an Islamic republic in a move he said was designed to ...Tunisian democracy group collects 2015 Nobel Peace Prize
This year\'s Nobel Peace Prize winners, the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, collected their award in Norway on Thursday, appealing for international cooperation ...Two suspects identified in California mass shooting
At least 14 people were killed in a gun attack on a holiday party in California, triggering a massive manhunt that ended ...South African appeals court convicts Pistorius of murder
A South African appeals court on Thursday convicted Oscar Pistorius of murder, overturning a lower court\'s conviction of the double-amputee Olympian on ...Despite treatment advances, AIDS stigma lingers in rural South Africa
When Eunice Khanyile opened a soup kitchen in a rural village in South Africa last year to help HIV-positive residents get the ...