Italian reporter missing in Syria is alive, in touch with family
SYRIA-CRISIS/JOURNALIST:Italian reporter missing in Syria is alive, in touch with family
Q&A: Aid agencies fear speaking truth - refugees advocate
“What we saw were a lot of children coming in with gunshot wounds and landmine injuries” - Refugees International advocate says, noting “strong ethnic element” to military abuses
Aid for South Sudan’s Jonglei, but people scared to return home
U.N. to deliver aid to tens of thousands displaced by fighting in Jonglei state, but towns remain deserted as people fear returning home amid rumours that some are killed as suspected rebels
Egypt demands Ethiopia halt Nile dam, upping stakes
Egypt will demand Ethiopia stop building a dam on one of the main tributaries of the Nile, ramping up a confrontation over the project that Egypt fears will affect its main source of water
U.S. Senate largely rebuffs Obama plan for food-aid reform
U.S. Senate has rebuffed President Obama's call for the biggest reform of the hunger relief programme since the Cold War
Wanted militia leader spotted fighting in Sudan's Darfur-HRW
Witnesses identified Arab militia leader Ali Kushayb during an attack on a tribe in central Darfur, Human Rights Watch said
More than 1,000 killed in Iraq violence in May
April marks deadliest month since the sectarian slaughter of 2006-07, the United Nations reports
Sudanese rebels say shoot down army helicopter in oil area
SUDAN-FIGHTING/:Sudanese rebels say shoot down army helicopter in oil area
South Sudan TV editor says security agent threatened him with gun
SOUTHSUDAN-MEDIA/:South Sudan TV editor says security agent threatened him with gun