September 19, 2018 UN agency warns time running out to prevent Yemen famine The U.N. food agency said Wednesday time was running out for aid groups working in Yemen to prevent a "devastating" famine in the war-torn country.
September 19, 2018 Report: South Sudan troops raped, killed while peace pursued With "staggering brutality," South Sudan government soldiers and allied militia targeted civilians by raping them, burning them alive, running them over with armored vehicles and hanging them in trees even as the government pursued a new peace deal to end a civil war, a new Amnesty International report says.
September 19, 2018 Ethiopia's stunning reforms now challenged by deadly unrest Ethiopia's stunning political reforms are now threatened by long-standing ethnic tensions that have roared back to life since a young prime minister took power just five months ago and promised greater freedoms.
September 18, 2018 Amnesty calls Egypt an 'open-air prison' for critics Egypt's crackdown on freedom of expression under the rule of general-turned-president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has reached "alarming" and "unprecedented" levels, Amnesty International said Tuesday, calling for the unconditional release of Egyptians jailed for peacefully expressing their views.
September 18, 2018 Niger says Italian priest kidnapped near Burkina Faso border An Italian priest has been kidnapped in a part of Niger where a number of extremist groups are active, the West African nation said Tuesday.
September 18, 2018 Defense lawyer casts Ugandan war crimes defendant as victim A lawyer defending an alleged commander in Uganda's shadowy Lord's Resistance Army accused of crimes including murder, sexual slavery and using child soldiers cast him Tuesday him as a victim of the rebel group and its brutal leader, Joseph Kony.
September 18, 2018 Nearly 90 elephants slain in Botswana amid anti-poaching unit disarmament Nearly 90 elephants have been found dead in Botswana, the last safe place for the endangered animals, in the wake of the president’s decision in May to disarm its anti-poaching unit.
September 17, 2018 E. Guinea: Brazil search of VP delegation suitcases illegal Equatorial Guinea on Monday accused Brazilian authorities of conducting an illegal search and seizure of the contents of suitcases belonging to a delegation that included the African country's vice president.
September 17, 2018 Senior Italy official to Egypt leader: Resolve Regeni case A senior Italian official meeting with Egypt's president on Monday raised the issue of an Italian student gruesomely killed in Cairo in 2016, objecting to what he said was a lack of progress in resolving the case.
September 17, 2018 ICC sentences ex-Congo VP to 1 year for witness tampering Judges at the International Criminal Court on Monday re-imposed a one-year prison sentence and 300,000-euro ($350,000) fine on a former Congolese vice president for interfering with witnesses at his war crimes trial.