Category: Arts

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA Veterinarian Dr. Karin Lourens has become known as Africa’s pangolin doctor for leading medical efforts to help the scaly anteaters rescued from the illegal wildlife trade.Case in point, she’s treating an endangered ground …

Actress Priyanka Chopra is in Ethiopia to promote access to education for refugee children.Chopra is a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations children’s agency. She spoke with The Associated Press after visiting a school for refugees from neighbori…

Facebook has announced it removed 265 Facebook and Instagram accounts, pages, groups, and events from its service Thursday because of what it called “coordinated inauthentic behavior.”In a statement, the company said the objectionable activity originat…

ALGIERS Hundreds of thousands of protesters rallied peacefully in Algiers after Friday prayers, chanting “We will not shut up!” and demanding the departure of Algeria’s ruling elite a month after the downfall of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.Weeks of…

GENEVA � A second round of U.N.-mediated talks aimed at solving the Western Sahara conflict has ended with no resolution, but with an agreement by the Moroccan and the Polisario Front delegations to meet again.Getting parties in a dispute that has last…

WASHINGTON, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo contended Thursday that an American-born woman who defected to the Islamic State terrorist group is not a U.S. citizen and should not be allowed to return home from Syria because her father was a Yemeni d…

RABAT, MOROCCO Setting deadlines for elections in Libya is counterproductive because the political players need to agree first on a political solution to end the country’s conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday.The comments add …

In Numbers2251.17 mt of food assistance distributed2,333 kcal/person/day provided through the general food basketUS$ 3 m six months (February-July 2019) net funding requirements125 000 people assisted in December 2018Operational Updates In December, as…