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STORY: This South African township illustrates the gaping inequalities that persist more than three decades after the end of ...

The purpose of USAID — its “mission” — is to “On behalf of the American people, … promote and demonstrate democratic values ...

Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist. But as she slumped in a folding chair outside the gates of the British prime minister's office on day 129 of a hunger ...

Rwanda has economic as well as security interests. Kigali denies UN evidence that it smuggles vast amounts of gold and other metals out of eastern DR Congo and sells them as its own. But access to DR ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday that his country "will not be bullied," days after U.S. President ...

Sudan, which included South Sudan up to 2011, has never known peace and stability since independence in 1956. The country’s ...

Crime researchers use murder (or homicide) rate per 100,000 as a crude measure of the general level of violent interpersonal ...

Noah, who is usually breezy onstage, seemed to rush through his jokes Sunday, muddling many of his punchlines and making the ...