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Camped on streets with sleeping bags and stocked with food supplies, thousands of excited Ecuadoreans congregated in the coastal city of Guayaquil on Monday for Pope Francis' first mass of his "homecoming" tour of South America. On the first full...

Dozens of Kenyans rallied in Nairobi on Monday against homosexuality and a lawmaker said U.S. President Barack Obama should not push a pro-gay agenda when he visits the country later this month. Obama has hailed last month's U.S. Supreme Court...

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is expected to make changes to his cabinet on Monday, a government source said, the second reshuffle since December when he fired his deputy of ten years Joice Mujuru. REUTERS

The International Criminal Court on Friday postponed the trial of Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda, accused of leading a militia in a campaign marked by rape and murder, after his lawyers said they needed more time to build his defense...

Yemen's dominant Houthi movement said on Saturday a pause in fighting to last until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan was under discussion with the United Nations to allow for deliveries of humanitarian aid. Houthi spokesman Mohammed...

Tunisia President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a state of emergency on Saturday to hand his government more authority following an Islamic militant attack on a beach hotel, where 38 foreign tourists, mostly Britons, were killed. Tunisia's emergency law temporarily gives...

Iraqi jets dropped leaflets over Mosul telling residents that Islamic State fighters would soon be driven from the northern city, saying details of the operation would be broadcast on a new radio station. The city has been under Islamic State...

N'DJAMENA Security forces in Chad have seized a large weapons cache including guns, rockets and ammunition in a house in the capital N'Djamena occupied by suspected members of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, officials said on Friday. The weapons, buried...

BEVERLY HILLS, July 02, (THEWILL) – Boko Haram insurgents have again attacked two villages in Monguno local government area of Borno State. A report monitored on BBC Hausa Service by THEWILL on Thursday said many people were killed while several...

The UN Security Council has imposed sanctions on six generals accused of fuelling conflict in South Sudan. The generals, three from each side of the conflict, will face global travel bans and asset freezes. On Monday, a UN report alleged that...