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Central African Republic troops killed 44 rebel fighters participating in a push to encircle the capital Bangui and overturn newly-reelected President Faustin Archange Touadera, the government said.

Adewale Kupoluyi writes that while the availability of vaccines is a positive development, non-pharmaceutical measures should not be abandoned.

Mexico’s official death toll from the coronavirus passed 150,000 on Monday following a surge in infections in recent weeks that has stretched the health system in the capital to the limit and led to the president contrac...

China provocatively pierces Taiwan's air space soon after Biden invites its de facto US ambassador to his inauguration ceremony.

Addressing the world's economic elite on Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that "containing the coronavirus is the most pressing task for the international community."

At least 11 people were killed on Monday after fighting broke out between the Somali federal army and Jubbaland state forces in the Gedo region of southwestern Somalia, a local doctor told Reuters. Somalia’s federal gove...

Six people were killed and 12 others were wounded in an attack yesterday on the area of Falouja in East Jebel Marra, South Darfur. Marra village in neighbouring Tawila, North Darfur, was raided as well. The number of vic...

Haiti President Jovenel Moïse is calling on Haitians to help police respond to a worrying surge in kidnappings for ransom and put an end to the fear gripping the impoverished nation and leading many to conclude it is unl...

On the north coast of Colombia there is anxiety over the return to the South American country of one of the most feared former paramilitary commanders: Hernán Giraldo Serna. “El Patrón” (the boss) or “El Taladro” (the dr...

In recent weeks, those killed in targeted attacks have included the deputy governor of Kabul, the head of a radio station in Ghor province and a women's rights activist in Kapisa province. The wave of targeted killings h...