The European Union saw in 2017 the lowest number of detected illegal border-crossings since the migrant crisis began four years ago, the EU border agency Frontex said Tuesday. The annual total of 204,700 marked a significant decrease compared to recent years, but not yet a return to the situation before 2014, the Warsaw-based agency said, upon ...
Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday angrily denounced the conviction of its vice president for corruption by a French court as a flagrant violation of international law, and insisted on its total independence. On the second of four days of hearings before the UN's top court in The Hague, Malabo pushed its case against France which it accuses of bre ...
Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi has met the leader of opposition Renamo as part of efforts to broker peace between the group and his ruling Frelimo party. Renamo rebels fought a 16-year war against Frelimo until 1992, and unrest again boiled over between 2013 and 2016. Nyusi travelled to the remote Gorongosa mountains on Monday for talks ...
Residents of drought-stricken Cape Town received good news Tuesday when city officials said they now face losing piped water to their homes by July 9 -- a month later than last forecast. But Capetonians are not yet out of the woods. If drastic consumption reductions are not achieved by so-called Day Zero -- the last day of normal water supply ...
The heart-rending photo went round the world in 2015, showing an eight-year-old boy from Ivory Coast crammed into a suitcase that was found at a Spanish border crossing. His father goes on trial Tuesday in Ceuta, a Spanish overseas territory in northern Morocco which migrants from Africa regularly try to reach by scaling high border fences, hidi ...
The counter-terrorism plot seems more far fetched than many action thrillers, yet 7 Days in Entebbe , which premiered at the Berlin film festival Monday, depicts a real-life airline hijack drama. The movie recounts what is often called the most audacious hostage rescue mission ever staged, Israel's 1976 Operation Thunderbolt in Uganda, but ai ...
Efforts to build a five-nation force to roll back jihadism in the Sahel face a funding hurdle this week, with a surge in rebel attacks providing an urgent reminder of the task in hand. So far more than $350 million has already been pledged for the G5 Sahel force, gathering Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger -- countries in the frontl ...
Babies born in the world's poorest countries, most of them in Africa, still face alarming risks of death that can be 50 times as high as those in the richest countries, according to a UNICEF report released Tuesday. While the last quarter-century has seen broad improvements in older children's health, we have not made similar progress in endi ...
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