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Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 12:01
Kenyan police have fired tear gas at primary school children and a small group of activists protesting against the seizure of their school playground by a property developer.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 11:41
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the European Union should fund a force to fight Islamist group, Boko Haram. Merkel says terrorism is bad no matter where it is and proposes a partnership between the European Union and African Union.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 11:32
Boko Haram insurgents have kidnapped 80 people in northern Cameroon, officials said, an attack that comes as troops from neighboring Chad entered Cameroon to join the fight against the terrorist group.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 11:27
Ebola treatment centers built by U.S. and international aid organizations are standing near-empty as the outbreak fades. The international community, led by the United States, responded with a massive construction and assistance campaign that turned out to be far in excess of what was necessary.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 11:25
Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the Journalists Security Conference.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 08:05
A new leak allegedly reveals that government officials instructed leading media figures to appeal to people’s emotions and encourage them to support Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi during his presidential campaign in 2014.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 07:38
South Sudan’s vice president Riek Machar was sacked in 2013 and after a political crisis that year, he ended up in the bush leading an armed rebellion that has turned into 13 months of civil war.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 07:30
The Kazakhstani government claims that it’s managed to identify the country’s citizens – some 300, at the last official estimate – who have uprooted to fight with ISIS.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 07:30
Police in Niger fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of opposition supporters who gathered in the capital Niamey on Sunday in defiance of a ban on a demonstration against what they see as poor governance, witnesses said.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 07:26
Demonstrators threw stones and set fire to two churches in Niamey, Niger’s capital, on Saturday, as protests continued against the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.