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One of Africa’s most famous refugee camps could transform into a city

Rwanda is commemorating the 1994 genocide, in which 800,000 people, most of them from the Tutsi ethnic group, were massacred by Hutu militias. But this year the event is marked by tensions over Rwanda's alleged support of the M23 rebel group in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

Loss of funding could undo progress in reducing deaths in pregnancy and childbirth, especially in war zones, says UN

The decision comes as political tensions mount in South Sudan, causing fears of a renewed civil war.

Washington is revoking all visas for South Sudanese passport holders and blocking new arrivals, the US State Department said, accusing the African nation of not accepting its nationals expelled from the United States.

Israeli doctor who saw Walid Ahmad’s autopsy said starvation was likely cause of death

Palestinian and UN bodies mark Palestine Children’s Day with ‘harrowing’ accounts of toll of Israel’s war on children.

US and Europe criticised by head of Norwegian Refugee Council for ‘neglect’ of people living ‘subhuman’ existence

In 1985, a star-studded lineup of Black UK musicians, including Aswad, Dennis Brown and Janet Kay, recorded a charity single to raise funds for famine-stricken Ethiopia. Why are their efforts so little known?

The United Nations has condemned reports by local rights groups of extrajudicial killings taking place in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, which the Sudanese military recaptured last month

Ben Mbarek, along with about 40 other critics of the president, is being tried on state conspiracy charges.