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A top African Union official who led an inquiry into atrocities in war-torn South Sudan warned that ignoring its recommendations would help the guilty to evade justice.

• 31 января 2015, 15:05

The UN Security Council will hold closed-door meetings Monday on the crisis that has left Yemen in a political vacuum.

• 26 января 2015, 13:20

The World Health Organization's chief admitted the UN agency had been caught napping on Ebola and pledged reforms to avoid similar mistakes in future.

• 26 января 2015, 12:41

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has expressed condolences over the death of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah.

• 25 января 2015, 23:21

Saudi Arabia's elderly King Abdullah died and was replaced by his half-brother Salman as the absolute ruler of the world's top oil exporter.

• 23 января 2015, 14:54

The UN Security Council condemned an attack by Huthi rebels on Yemen's presidential palace and voiced strong support for President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi.

• 21 января 2015, 14:27

The World Bank trimmed its estimates of the economic damage of the Ebola epidemic.

• 21 января 2015, 12:32

The United Nations is still waiting for President Joseph Kabila to sign off on a joint military plan to drive out rebels from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

• 17 января 2015, 13:31

Nigeria's police chief warned politicians and their supporters against violence before next month's presidential election.

• 13 января 2015, 12:14

The International Monetary Fund is under mounting pressure to cancel the debts of the three poor West African countries hit hardest by Ebolaю

• 31 декабря 2014, 13:53

Jennifer Lawrence says she'd be fine if she got Ebola, in a video that encourages Americans to focus more on West Africans far more likely to die from the dreaded virus.

• 31 декабря 2014, 12:17

IMF policies left healthcare systems in the African countries worst affected by Ebola underfunded and lacking doctors, and hampered a coordinated response to the outbreak.

• 22 декабря 2014, 11:18

Nursultan Nazarbayev has sent a telegram to President of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain with condolences over the terrorist attack in Pakistan’s city of Peshawar.

• 19 декабря 2014, 16:16

Sierra Leone said it was banning any public Christmas celebrations as the spiralling caseload of Ebola infections continues to spread alarm.

• 13 декабря 2014, 15:26

Lawmakers in Madagascar have voted to abolish the death penalty, a move hailed as "historic" by the European Union.

• 13 декабря 2014, 12:38

The questions teenagers ask about HIV are brutally honest, anonymous -- and sent in 160 characters or less over mobile phone text messages.

• 02 декабря 2014, 15:34

Tunisia's incumbent President Moncef Marzouki appeared set for a runoff vote against an anti-Islamist party ex-premier.

• 24 ноября 2014, 16:44

West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS said on Sunday it will train 150 health workers this week to help tackle the deadly Ebola disease in the worst hit countries.

• 24 ноября 2014, 16:32

At least eight people were killed and 24 were missing as heavy storms lashed southern Morocco, causing flash floods.

• 24 ноября 2014, 12:01

Christine Lagarde, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, had just called for an increase in the country's budget deficit so that it could battle Ebola.

• 19 ноября 2014, 14:44