South Sudan peace talks collapse
South Sudan peace talks in Addis Ababa have collapsed. The regional group IGAD is urging both sides to consider proposals that it says are a genuine attempt to find common ground. Sources close to the peace talks say the rebels led by Riek Machar would not accept the regional plan to give the government of […]
Amnesty International accused Nigerian troops of raping Boko Haram victims
Amnesty International has accused Nigerian soldiers of raping women and girls who fled the insurgency by militant Islamist group Boko Haram. The human rights watchdog says the troops sometimes demanded sex in exchange for food at refugee camps. Amnesty International says Nigerian troops separated women from their husbands and raped them. It adds that thousands […]
Ebola outbreak in DRC on the brink of becoming an epidemic
The Ebola outbreak in the DRC is on the brink of becoming an epidemic. This warning from the World Health Organization as three patients escape quarantine in the first city the deadly haemorrhagic disease has reached. Head of the WHO emergency response Peter Salama says the Ebola outbreak in the DRC is on a epidimiological […]