Sudan has extradited to Italy an Eritrean national suspected of being a kingpin in an organised-crime network responsible for bringing thousands of migrants...
The world has become increasingly violent with deaths from conflict at a 25-year high, terrorist attacks at an all-time high and more people displaced than at...
Human Rights Watch Tuesday accused soldiers from the Republic of Congo of killing 18 people, including women and children, while serving as United Nations and...
Doctors Without Borders says governments need to improve access to HIV treatment in West and Central Africa, where critical medicines reach fewer than...
France has suspended five members of the military for violence during their deployment in Central African Republic against citizens they were sent to protect,...
France has disciplined five soldiers accused of physical abuse in Central African Republic, where Paris had sent peacekeepers to quell bloody sectarian...
Nearly 46 million people around the world are living as slaves, forced to work in factories, mines and farms, sold for sex, trapped in debt bondage or born...
A top commander of Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army will go on trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in December charged with keeping sex...
A former number two at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is forcing the United Nations to confront one of the worst crises in its history: sexual abuse...
War crimes prosecutors Wednesday called for former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba to be sentenced "to at least 25 years" in prison for a slew of...
A common sight on any street corner in the poor neighborhoods of El Salvador’s capital is a teenage gang member controlling territory by standing guard with a...
The effects of a deliberate campaign of mass rapes in the Central African Republic by the forces of former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba a decade...
Defense lawyers Monday sought to mitigate the sentence being weighed against former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba, convicted in March of a slew...
Nigeria was Saturday hosting talks on Boko Haram with regional and Western powers, as the United Nations warned of the militants' ties to the ISIS group and...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta set fire Saturday to the world's biggest ivory bonfire, after demanding a total ban on trade in tusks and horns to end...
Canadian scientists have collected stories from more than 90,000 people whose traditional ways of life rely on nature, in an effort to capture signs of...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta Friday demanded a total ban on trade in ivory to end trafficking and prevent the extinction of elephants in the wild
Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza has condemned the killing of a senior army officer, who was shot along with his wife and bodyguard in an attack that...
Five million AIDS sufferers in central and western Africa have no access to treatment, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Wednesday, warning of a major...
At "Ground Zero" in Africa's counter-terrorism fight, senior U.S. officials warned of deepening links between the Islamic State and Boko Haram and prodded...