DIFFA, Niger (Reuters) – A wave of attacks by Islamist insurgents Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria and the islands of Lake Chad has forced tens of thousands across the border to Niger’s arid southeastern region of Diffa, worsening a dire humanitarian si…
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Twin suicide bomb attacks in the capital of Cameroon’s far northern region Maroua killed at least 13 people on Wednesday, senior Cameroon military sources told Reuters.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A U.S.-based non-governmental organization has become the latest casualty in what campaigners say is a global tightening of restrictions on charitable activity by authoritarian governments, by deciding to close its…
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia’s prime minister said on Wednesday he had already forgotten a mob attack on him in Bosnia 11 days ago as he hosted Bosnia’s three-man presidency in a visit designed to cool tempers between the ex-Yugoslav republics.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese dissident artist and free speech advocate Ai Weiwei said that authorities in Beijing returned his passport on Wednesday, more than four years after it was confiscated following his 81-day secret detention.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Dozens have been killed in clashes between two tribes in the biggest city in southern Libya, officials said on Tuesday as a security vacuum grew in a remote corner of the oil producer.
DAKAR (Reuters) – The trial of Chad’s former ruler Hissene Habre on war crimes charges has been adjourned until September 7 after the presiding judge appointed three new lawyers on Tuesday for the defense.
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece reopened its banks and ordered billions of euros owed to international creditors to be repaid on Monday in the first signs of a return to normal after last week’s deal to agree a tough new package of bailout reforms.
SUSIYA, West Bank (Reuters) – Sitting under a fig tree to escape the searing sun, Jihad Nuwaja looks out on the only land he knows – the dry expanse of the Hebron hills in the southern West Bank. Within days, his home is set to be demolished and he, hi…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S.-led forces targeted Islamic State militants with 16 air strikes in Iraq and nine in Syria on Saturday, the U.S. military said.