List of Africa articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Terrorists Had a Banner Year in 2014, Killing More Than 30,000
The increase in terrorism's violence comes amid the Islamic State's spread in Iraq and Syria and Boko Haram violence in Nigeria.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Charleston Suspect Wore Apartheid-Era South African and Rhodesian Flags
The suspect in the Charleston shooting wore the flags of apartheid-era South Africa and Rhodesia, both white supremacist states.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Record Year in Misery: the World Has Never Seen a Refugee Crisis This Bad
Some 60 million people worldwide have been forced to leave their homes.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Omar al-Bashir Just Made a Mockery of International Justice. Again.
South Africa just let the dictator of Sudan fly home — that's bad news for the International Criminal Court.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.N. Tightens Noose on U.N. Rights Official Who Exposed Abuses
U.N. investigators expand investigation into veteran U.N. human rights official who disclosed abuses against children in the Central African Republic.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can You Use Big Data to Track an Elephant Poacher?
Why looking at a map of news headlines could help us see critical patterns and trends in wildlife crime.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Anatomy of a Boko Haram Massacre
Months after Nigerian militants swept through Baga, an investigation by Human Rights Watch reveals the details of perhaps the insurgent group's most brutal attack to date.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 North Korea on the Red Sea: Why Thousands of Migrants Are Fleeing Eritrea
A new U.N. report describes a regime built on torture, domestic spy networks, and mass conscription.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.N.’s Refugee Mission in Africa Is ‘Fighting Fires’ as Funding Falls Short
As conflicts spiral out of control across the African continent, the U.N.'s refugee chief in Africa thinks that without funding, more refugees will link up with extremists or seek passage to Europe.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ominous Warning Signs Resurface in Zimbabwe
Ethnic hatreds, murky disappearances, and the purging of enemies are all on the rise in Robert Mugabe's dictatorship.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Stars on Their Shoulders, Blood on Their Hands
An explosive new report by Amnesty International shows that Nigeria's military systematically committed war crimes — torturing and murdering thousands of young men.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is Khartoum Sending Weapons to Rebels in South Sudan?
A new report alleges Sudan is helping fuel a conflict that has helped spark a famine and a refugee crisis.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Kenya Wades Into the South Sudan Morass
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has a plan to kickstart the stalled peace process. Can he broker a deal before famine strikes the world’s newest nation?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What to Do When Foreign Fighters Come Home
Not every Westerner who comes home after joining the Islamic State is a threat. But whether they ultimately live a life of peace or violence can be shaped by what they find when they get back.