The U.N. refugee agency says a voluntary repatriation program for Congolese refugees wishing to return home from Angola resumed after a two-year break due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The UNHCR says a first convoy of 88 Congolese refugees left northern Angola and is due to arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo Wednesday. The agency […]

The breakaway region of Somaliland has announced a ban on broadcasts by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Somaliland Information Minister Saleban Yusuf Ali Koore told reporters Tuesday that BBC broadcasts have reduced the identity and dignity of the self-declared independent nation not recognized by Somalia or any other country. The minister, speaking in the Somaliland capital […]

Prince Harry told a United Nations commemoration on Nelson Mandela’s birthday Monday that despite having suffered many injustices in his life, the South African leader always managed to find the light. “A man who had endured the worst of humanity – vicious racism and state-sponsored brutality. A man who had lost 27 years with his […]

The U.S. aid chief is urging nations to do more to avert a food crisis in East Africa and singled out China for not doing enough. Samantha Power, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated the food crisis in the Horn of Africa, and that […]