In its five-year effort to impose Islamic law in northeastern Nigeria, the Boko Haram extremist group has killed thousands of people and forced hundreds of thousands to flee. Some of those who ran fo...
224 viewsSunday Bayak is 16 years old. When fighting started in Bentiu where he lived with his brother, he fled like thousands of South Sudanese to U.N. protected sites. Many of his male friends and peers join...
230 viewsIn Sudan's state of South Kordofan, the number of amputees as result of civil war is in the thousands, but few have access to sufficient medical help. Adam Bailes recently visited th...
204 viewsSix months ago, Bentiu was a ghost town. The capital of northern Unity State, near South Sudan’s important oil fields, had changed hands several times in fighting between government forces and rebel...
206 viewsKenyan farmers are starting to pull out fields of khat -- a leafy green plant chewed as a stimulant in the Horn of Africa and in some Arab states. More countries are banning the import and sale of th...
163 viewsIn one of Nairobi's most impoverished slums, some residents board computer bus to better future. Lenny Ruvaga reports from Kawangware. Originally published at - http://www.voanews....
175 viewsThe rebel-held areas of Sudan's Nuba Mountains have been under blockade since the start of a civil war In 2011 -- with the Sudanese government denying all access for food, supplies an...
174 viewsKenya's usually popular beachside tourist destination of Mombasa is seeing a much slower holiday season this year due to fears of insecurity as the country has suffered from a string ...
207 viewsAt least 200 Zimbabwean refugees who’d found shelter at Johannesburg's Central Methodist Church face an uncertain future after being ordered, by church authorities, to pack up and g...
247 viewsThe recent collapse of two buildings in Kenya's capital has raised concerns about building safety in the country. Government regulators have been making the rounds to inspect construc...
286 viewsWith a groundbreaking solar farm spanning a river in Beirut set to start pumping out power in a matter of weeks, Lebanon is declaring its green ambitions. But the fight to solve the country’s consta...
290 viewsUS Secretary of State John Kerry visited Nigeria Sunday in a show of the level of concern within the U.S. and the international community over next month’s presidential election. Chris Stein reports...
159 viewsNigerian expatriates, activists recently gathered in Washington to denounce deadly raids and massacres by militant group Boko Haram, and some urged that next month’s presidential polls be delayed. M...
201 viewsNigeria’s north-central state of Kaduna has long been the site of fighting between Muslims and Christians as well as between people of different ethnic groups. As the February elections approach, c...
228 viewsSomalia's president signed into law the Convention on the Rights of the Child on January 20. Somalia’s children continue to face daily challenges posed by conflict, displacement, m...
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