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The UN Security Council pressed Libya's warring factions to urgently form a unity government and threatened sanctions against those behind spiraling violence.

• 14 апреля 2015, 15:25

More than 30 people, mostly schoolchildren returning from a sports meet, were killed Friday in Morocco when their bus caught fire.

• 11 апреля 2015, 10:30

The Red Cross said that an aid plane is ready to leave for Yemen but its departure has been held back by logistics problems inside the war-torn country.

• 06 апреля 2015, 19:43

They came in their hundreds, fearful of attacks but determined to honour the victims of one of Kenya's worst ever massacres.

• 06 апреля 2015, 11:00

The bodies of the 148 students and security officers massacred by Somalia's Shebab Islamists in a Kenyan university were flown to Nairobi.

• 04 апреля 2015, 15:16

President-elect Muhammadu Buhari vowed to rid Nigeria of the "terror" of Boko Haram after his historic election victory.

• 02 апреля 2015, 13:41

Main opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari won Nigeria's presidential election by 2.57 million votes.

• 01 апреля 2015, 15:38

Newly anointed "The Daily Show" host Trevor Noah faced mounting criticism after the emergence of several past social media posts accused of being racist.

• 01 апреля 2015, 10:58

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution to step up the fight against Islamic extremists in Libya but without lifting the arms embargo.

• 28 марта 2015, 11:12

The UN Security Council called for the stepping up of UN-brokered talks on ending a growing crisis in Yemen.

• 26 февраля 2015, 13:18

The world's oldest leader, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, turns 91 with much to celebrate -- even as critics condemn as "obscene" his lavish birthday party plans.

• 21 февраля 2015, 10:41

Two suicide attacks in northeast Nigeria killed at least 38 people, less than six weeks from elections, as the leader of Boko Haram vowed to disrupt the vote.

• 18 февраля 2015, 14:04

Pope Francis expressed "profound sadness" over the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians by Islamic militants in Libya, saying they had been killed for their faith.

• 17 февраля 2015, 13:26

The European Union said it will meet with the Egyptian and US governments this week to discuss joint action on Libya.

• 17 февраля 2015, 13:17

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement denounced a series of violent attacks on its volunteers battling the deadly Ebola epidemic in Guinea

• 12 февраля 2015, 10:53

The United Nations is temporarily pulling support to the Democratic Republic of Congo's planned military operation to drive out rebels.

• 11 февраля 2015, 13:12

President Vladimir Putin arrived in Egypt as Russia seeks to expand its reach in the Arab world's most populous country.

• 10 февраля 2015, 11:10

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for the restoration to power in Yemen of Western-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi after Huthi militia seized power.

• 09 февраля 2015, 17:53

The World Health Organization said it had appointed its assistant director-general Bruce Aylward to head its overall response to the deadly Ebola outbreak.

• 04 февраля 2015, 10:05

Kenya obtained nearly $700 million worth of precautionary loan support from the International Monetary Fund.

• 03 февраля 2015, 13:25