The Nigerian government's efforts to secure peace in the oil heartlands of the Niger Delta are empty promises, community leaders say, threatening a return to violence that would derail any broader recovery in the crude-dependent economy.

Former opposition leader Helen Zille apologizes for a tweet she posted in March in which she praised aspects of colonialism, and the government in Sudan steps up border patrols to curb people smuggling.

The peace accord was mediated by the Evangelical Presbyterian Church leader Bishop Elias Taban Parangi after a four day joint military committee meeting in Kampala.

In the last 5 months alone, half a million more people in Somalia have become severely affected by the drought. This is having all kinds of society-wide consequences.

Many of the children, aged between 12 and 19, interviewed for the study spent their formative years in captivity from the age of a few months to up to seven years.

Members of the UN Security Council are in Niger to witness the scale of the humanitarian crisis in the country and to help find long-term solutions, the head of the delegation said.

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Food insecurity has more than doubled over the past two years -- from 600,000 to 1.25 million people. The drought and food security situation in the most affected counties ranges from moderate to severe.

Guterres hailed President Museveni’s influence and role in ensuring peace and security in the region and for his efforts as mediator in the Burundi conflict to ensure dialogue by all stakeholders.

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World powers can stop a "Rwanda-like" genocide in South Sudan if they immediately deploy a 4,000-strong protection force across the country and set up a court to prosecute atrocities, the head of a U.N. human rights commission said.