The internationally recognized government of Libya confirmed the deaths of Lt. Gen. Mohamed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, the army chief of staff, and other officers flying home after a meeting in Turkey.

A union representing career diplomats said such a mass recall had never happened in the history of the U.S. Foreign Service.

A spokesman for the Nigerian government said that the “remaining” students from a Catholic school had been freed, but the Diocese said only that a “second batch” had been released.

Around a dozen gunmen opened fire at random at bar patrons. The police said they launched a manhunt to find the unknown assailants.

No one knows the true toll of the massacre, and the city remains isolated. Now, refugee camps in Chad are flooded with newly displaced Sudanese.

The Caesar Act was imposed in 2019 in response to widespread and systematic violations of human rights by the regime of former dictator Bashar al-Assad.

The Caesar Act was imposed in 2019 in response to widespread and systematic violations of human rights by the regime of former dictator Bashar al-Assad.

A paramilitary attack in April was one of the most brutal of Sudan’s civil war. Now, hunger is spreading as Western aid cuts have reduced U.N. rations.

Carmakers have known for decades that battery recycling was poisoning people abroad. Nigeria’s crackdown is an effort to catalog the damage.

Israel’s granting of an export permit is the final step to allow the deal, first announced by energy companies in August, to proceed.

Seven Kenyans were detained for working in the country illegally, officials said. The arrests came amid rising tensions after the United States prioritized white Afrikaners seeking asylum.

Survivors of the St. Mary’s Catholic School abduction in Nigeria recall their harrowing ordeal and release.

The militia said the withdrawal was intended to give ongoing peace talks with the Congolese government “the maximum chance to succeed.”

The European Union has mounted an “air bridge” effort, with at least eight aid flights planned to Sudan. But getting supplies to the areas with the most dire need is an enormous challenge.

We set out to investigate worker abuse in Saudi Arabia. We found a system that begins exploiting them before they ever leave home.

The strike on a United Nations base in the southern Kordofan region was the deadliest single episode for the body’s personnel in Sudan’s civil war.

Injuries were reported in an attack that the Syrian government’s news agency said happened near the ancient city of Palmyra.

A local group negotiated permission from the paramilitary force controlling El Fasher, offering a rare glimpse into conditions after a massacre.

Many single moms and their children are trapped there. She was adamant that her daughter wouldn’t be among them.

The fighting in Congo continues despite Washington’s claims to have brokered an end to the conflict.