Able-bodied men from the Nigerian town of Chibok have taken to the dangerous Sambisa Forest to search for more than 100 abducted girls and young women whom the military claimed to have freed from their Islamic extremist kidnappers, an education official said Thursday.
Thousands of undocumented refugees, immigrants and Kenyan citizens have been arrested, with a sprawling stadium in Nairobi turned into a police station to hold large numbers of them.
The trial of Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee track star accused of murdering his girlfriend, adjourned amid reports that a defense witness will not take the stand.
The United Nations refugee agency said Wednesday that it was working to seek $274 million in emergency donations to support refugees fleeing violence in the Central African Republic.
Military forces on Wednesday freed most of the teenage girls who had been abducted the previous day by Islamist militants, a spokesman for the armed forces said in a statement.
The president of the United Nations Security Council in 1994 apologized on Wednesday for their failure to do anything to halt the slaughter of more than one million people during the Rwandan genocide.
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