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First UN food supplies arrive in Sudan's Darfur after months but millions face acute hunger
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The United Nations said Friday it has begun distributing food in Sudan’s restive western Darfur region for the first time in months, following two successful cross-border deliveries in March, but the population still faces widespread hunger unless more help arrives. ...
Seven soldiers in Chad are killed in an explosion blamed on Boko Haram extremists
N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — An explosive device detonated and killed seven soldiers in Chad during a patrol in the country's west near Lake Chad, the government says. The interim president, Mahamat Deby Itno, announced the deaths Monday on social media. Chadian authorities said they...
Refugee camps in Chad are overcrowded and running out of aid, and Sudanese refugees keep coming
METCHE CAMP, Chad (AP) — Overcrowded refugee camps in eastern Chad are set to run out of money soon, exacerbating a dire humanitarian crisis caused by the spillover from a deadly conflict in Sudan, the United Nations said. More than a million people in Chad, including refugees,...
US announces over $47 million in humanitarian aid for war-torn Sudan
CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. announced more than $47 million in humanitarian aid for war-torn Sudan and two neighboring countries, to where at least a million people have fled in the nearly 1-year-old conflict. The aid package is expected to help alleviate the suffering of nearly 25...
At least 200 people, mostly women and children, abducted by extremists in northeastern Nigeria
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic extremists have abducted at least 200 people who were out searching for firewood, mostly women and children displaced by violence in northeastern Nigeria, the United Nations office in the country said. Locals blamed the attack on Islamic extremist...
UN experts: Sudan's paramilitary forces carried out ethnic killings and rapes that may be war crimes
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Paramilitary forces and their allied militias fighting to take power in Sudan carried out widespread ethnic killings and rapes while taking control of much of western Darfur that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, United Nations experts said in a new...
Chad opposition leader was killed as he led attack on security agency in the capital, official says
N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — An opposition leader in Chad was among several people killed as he led an attack on the national security agency in the country's capital this week, the state prosecutor said Thursday. The attack underscored the tenuous situation in the central African...
Chad says opposition group attacked security agency in capital, a day after election date was set
N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Several people were killed Wednesday in the central African country of Chad in what the government said was an attack by an opposition group on the national security agency’s office in the capital. Government spokesman Abderaman Koulamallah said in a...
A Polish doctor kidnapped in Chad has been released and is unharmed, minister says
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish doctor kidnapped in Chad has been freed and is “safe and sound," Poland’s foreign minister said Tuesday. The woman had been volunteering at the Saint-Michel Hospital in the Central African nation's Tandjile region, where kidnappings for ransom are...
A search is underway for a Polish doctor kidnapped from a hospital in Chad
N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — A search was underway for a Polish doctor kidnapped in southern Chad, officials and media in Poland reported Monday. The woman was volunteering at the Saint-Michel Hospital, several hundred kilometers (miles) from the capital in the Central African nation,...
