UK plan to fly asylum-seekers to Rwanda draws outrage
LONDON— Britain announced a deal with Rwanda on Thursday to send some asylum-seekers thousands of miles to the East African
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Yemen’s president steps aside amid efforts to end war
SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s exiled president stepped aside and transferred his powers to a presidential council Thursday, as international and
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Experts say US suspension of COVID aid will prolong pandemic
LONDON — In the latest Senate package targeted at stopping the coronavirus, U.S. lawmakers dropped nearly all funding for curbing
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Sudan’s leader in Cairo for talks with Egyptian president
CAIRO — Egypt’s president on Wednesday met with Sudan’s top general for talks focusing on ties between the two African
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Blinken in Morocco amid shifts in Mideast, NAfrica diplomacy
RABAT, Morocco — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Tuesday for the expansion of new, major diplomatic shifts in
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Nigeria eyes fertilizer exports with $2.5 billion plant
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday inaugurated a $2.5 billion fertilizer plant with which Africa’s most populous
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Six Dead After al-Shabab Attacks Mogadishu Airport
MOGADISHU, Somalia —Police in Somalia say at least six people are dead after two gunmen attacked Mogadishu’s heavily guarded international
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Somaliland Upbeat Despite Lack of US Recognition
WASHINGTON — The president of Somaliland is wrapping up a U.S. visit without the formal recognition he had sought for the
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9 million children to be vaccinated against polio in Africa
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A drive to vaccinate more than 9 million children against polio has been launched this
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Democratic, self-governing Somaliland pleads with U.S. to recognize independence
Washington, DC—Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi spent the past week in Washington making the case that the U.S. should become
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