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A top U.N. official for central Africa recently visited the Lake Chad Basin to assess living conditions in the area. Years of attacks by Boko Haram have left much of the infrastructure there in ruins.Francois Lounceny Fall, the U.N. Secretary General’s...

A United Nations rights commission in South Sudan says the government is harassing activists, journalists and their families, limiting their activities, and targeting their work and finances.In a statement of "concern" issued this week, the United Nati...

Here's a look at what U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other top diplomats have been doing this week:US-South AmericaPromoting democracy and managing migration are the focus of Blinken’s first trip to Ecuador and Colombia from October 19 to 2...

The U.S. Secret Service said in a statement Wednesday that an investigation it conducted with the FBI has led to federal charges related to internet scams against seven leaders of the Cape Town Zone of the Neo Black Movement of Africa, also known as "B...

A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted U.S. Representative Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska, accusing him of lying to the FBI and concealing information from federal agents who were investigating campaign contributions funneled to him from a Nigerian bil...

Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who died Monday, is being remembered in Africa for peacemaking, supporting the fight against AIDS and sounding the alarm against war abuses.Cameron Hudson, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council...

When Ethiopian federal forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) started fighting in November 2020, a second front quickly opened online, where both sides seek to control the narrative.Social media became a battleground, with the Ethiopian...

Eswatini, Africa's last absolute monarchy, said Saturday it had shut its schools "indefinitely with immediate effect" as the country faces a wave of pro-democracy protests.Students of the tiny, landlocked nation formerly known as Swaziland have been pr...