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UN Eases Diamond, Arms Restrictions on Ivory Coast

UN Eases Diamond, Arms Restrictions on Ivory Coast

UN Security Council's resolution lifts the diamond embargo that has been in place since 2005 and relaxes an arms embargo to allow security forces to acquire small-caliber weapons

Kerry: US 'Closely' Examining South Sudan Sanctions

Clashes in Several South Sudanese Towns

Kerry: US 'Closely' Examining South Sudan Sanctions

In an exclusive interview with VOA, secretary of state says US considering sanctions on people encouraging unrest, though declined to specify who might be targeted

Kerry: US 'Closely' Examining South Sudan Sanctions

MSF Suspends Activities in CAR Town After Attack

22 Killed By Gunmen in C.A.R. Hospital

Looting Follows Evacuation of Muslims in CAR

UN describes forced displacement of tens of thousands of victims of Christian militancy as 'ethnic cleansing’

Kerry to Promote Trade, Security in Africa

State Department says top US diplomat to hold high-level talks with African Union in Addis Ababa

Mass Abduction Confounds Desperate Families, Nigerian Politics

An expert on Nigeria’s Boko Haram says the militant Islamists who are believed to have abducted more than 200 school girls will not negotiate and now confront Nigeria’s military with a new kind of threat