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Obama in Ethiopia, focus on South Sudan peace bid
Barack Obama on Monday officially begins a two-day visit to Ethiopia, the first-ever trip by a US president to Africa\'s second-most populous ...Obama urges Ethiopia to improve record on political freedoms
U.S. President Barack Obama told Ethiopia\'s leaders on Monday that allowing more political freedoms would strengthen the African nation, which had already ...Cameroon to deploy 2,000 more troops after Boko Haram attacks
Cameroon plans to send an additional 2,000 soldiers to its Far North region after three suicide bomb attacks in the regional capital ...Morocco media boss to pay minister defamation damages
The director of Morocco\'s Arabic-language newspaper Al-Akhbar, Rachid Niny, said he was sentenced Monday to pay 400,000 dirhams ($41,000, nearly 37,000 euros) ...NATO calls emergency meeting after Turkish request
NATO Security General Jens Stoltenberg called an emergency meeting on Tuesday to discuss security at the request of Turkey after last week\'s ...Militantes curdos matam 2 soldados turcos em atentado à bomba, diz Exército
Militantes curdos mataram dois soldados turcos em um atentado à bomba numa estrada, neste domingo, disseram os militares, numa aparente retaliação à ...Two soldiers killed in Turkey as PKK truce teeters
A car bomb attack killed two Turkish soldiers in the Kurdish-dominated southeast of the country, after separatist rebels warned they would no ...At least 19 killed in suicide attack in north Cameroon
At least 19 people were killed in a suicide bombing in the northern Cameroonian town of Maroua on Saturday, a local military ...U.S. President commends Kenya for commitment to anti-graft effort
U.S. President Barack Obama commended Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday for his commitment to rooting out corruption in the east African ...Saudi-led coalition declares 5-day Yemen truce
The Saudi-led coalition that has bombed Shiite rebels in Yemen since March unilaterally declared a five-day humanitarian truce from Monday to allow ...