UPDATED TO SHOW NEW REPORTED DEATH TOLL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday conceded "shortcomings" after criticism of his government's response to the massive earthquake that killed more than 11,500 people in Turkey and Syria.
Members of the U.S.’s Republican Party Tuesday issued a rebuttal to the State of the Union addressed delivered by President Joe Biden, which they dismissed as a failure.
U.S. basketball star LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers Tuesday made history in the National Basketball Association by breaking the record of highest scorer of all time.
African students that are based in Turkey report living in fear amid attempts by Turkish authorities to help all that were affected by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that has taken over 8,300 lives to date.
U.S. lawmakers Tuesday called on President Joe Biden and Washington’s Western allies to work together towards establishing a long-term policy that is focused on strengthening relations with Africa.
Ghanaian football authorities Tuesday announced that Christian Atsu, a player from the West African nation who is based in Turkey, has been rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building following a recent earthquake.
A report released Tuesday by the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, finds that extremist groups in sub-Saharan Africa are fast-growing because of unemployment.
Authorities of the United Nations recently spoke against a decision taken by Malian officials over the weekend to declare Guillauma Ngefa, the UN’s Human Rights representative as persona non grata and ordering that he vacates the country by Tuesday.
UDPATED TO REFLECT LATEST DEATH TOLL: US President Joe Biden said he was "deeply saddened" and promised his country's assistance Monday after a major 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, killing at least 2,600 people.
At least 34 people have been killed in clashes in Somalia's northern breakaway region of Somaliland, two doctors at a public hospital in Laascaanood town said on Monday.
UPDATED TO ADD VOLKER TURK COMMENTS: The Malian interim government on Sunday said the head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission's human rights division, Guillaume Ngefa-Atondoko Andali, had 48 hours to leave the country as he had been declared persona non grata.
Activists and human rights organizations are calling on Nigerian authorities to urgently address the “thick veil of violence” that is surrounding the upcoming elections that are scheduled for February 25 in the West African nation.
Global human rights groups say they are hopeful that the recent two-day visit by Pope Francis to South Sudan will address the ongoing conflict and worsening humanitarian crisis in the East African nation.
United Nations authorities Monday condemned an attack that happened on Sunday in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, that resulted in the death of a South African military official who was in the Central African nation as part of the U.N.’s peacekeeping MONUSCO.
Four African artists were among a long list of global musicians who won an award at the 65th Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles, California.
Pope Francis concluded a peace mission to South Sudan on Sunday urging the people to make themselves immune to the "venom of hatred" to achieve the peace and prosperity that have eluded them through years of bloody ethnic conflicts.
The United States said Thursday it has noted “important progress” made by parties in Ethiopia to enforce a peace pact signed in Pretoria, South Africa to end the country's horrific two-year conflict.
UPDATED TO NOTE BLINKEN TRIP DELAY: Beijing voiced regret Friday for an "unintended" breach of US airspace by what it said was an unmanned civilian airship, after the Pentagon said it was tracking a Chinese spy balloon. The incident has prompted US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to delay his PRC trip.
Pope Francis on Friday began a three-day visit to South Sudan to promote peace and reconciliation in the world's youngest country, riven by the scars of civil war and extreme poverty.
At least 21 people were killed in a cattle raid in South Sudan on the eve of a visit by Pope Francis to encourage peace in the conflict-ridden country, local authorities said.
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