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Ping spoke of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Boko Haram in Nigeria, and al-Shebab in Somalia. "Efforts should be made to contain and eradicate this phenomenon," he said. The crisis in northern Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern...
SF Gate
Ethiopia (AP) Aid agencies should have access to help internally displaced people fleeing from violence in Sudan and South Sudan, a top U.N. official said Sunday, one day after the leaders of the two nations met in a closed-door session. The African...
News 24
Failure by the African Union to resolve a bruising leadership contest between candidates from rival English- and French-speaking blocs will divide the continental body and undermine its credibility in the world, the AU's chair said on Sunday. Meeting...
Daily Nation
Rating Administrators at Sudan's main university have partially shut down the campus, sources at the institution said Sunday, after several Arab Spring-style student protests sparked by high inflation. "Now there is no teaching from today up to the...
Guardian Unlimited
Romaric Ollo Hien/AFP/Getty Images Tuareg-led rebels who seized the north of Mali in April said they have dropped their claims for a separate state after the rebellion was hijacked by Islamists linked to al-Qaida . Islamist allies routed government...
News 24
The African Union said Sunday it is ready to send peacekeeping troops to the restive eastern DR Congo, as leaders met at a biannual summit to discuss trouble spots and to vote for the bloc's top job. AU Commission chair Jean Ping told African leaders...