For over a year now, authorities in Nigeria have been resettling people displaced by the fighting between government forces and Boko Haram, Islamic militants who launched an insurgency in 2009 with northeastern Borno state as the epicenter of the fighting
The New York spot price of gold closed Tuesday at just over $2,657 per Troy ounce
Global voter participation had fallen to 55.5% of eligible voters in 2023 from 65.2% in 2008
If there’s a global trend, Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer said at a summit in Canada in June, it’s that 'people are tired of the incumbents'
Burkina Faso's military regime, in power since a 2022 coup, will extend its rule for five years under an accord adopted during national consultations on Saturday, the talks' chairman said
South Africa’s four main political parties have begun a final weekend of campaigning before a possibly pivotal election that could bring the country’s most important change in 30 years
Nearly 76 million people have been internally displaced by conflict and violence, with nearly half of all IDPs living in sub-Saharan Africa.
Police in Nigeria say armed men have broken into a school in northwestern Nigeria and abducted 15 children. The attack came at about 1 a.m. local time Saturday — about 48 hours after nearly 300 students were seized in a different part of the conflict-hit region
Global food security is under threat since Russia halted an agreement allowing Ukraine to export wheat and the El Nino weather phenomenon hampers rice production.
Rallies initially erupted in response to two back-to-back mass shootings earlier this month
Pope wrote on Twitter she was 'humbled and honored' to be chosen by IOM's 175 member states as new director general
Pope Francis has been discharged from the Rome hospital where he was treated for bronchitis. The 86-year-old pope was hospitalized Wednesday and received antibiotics intravenously. Asked how he felt Saturday, Francis quipped to reporters: “Still alive"
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