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President Amadu Toumani Toure of Mali (file)
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President Amadu Toumani Toure of Mali (file)

Calm Needed Now In Mali

Thousands in Northern Mali have fled amid a renewed insurgency by groups of the Tuareg people.

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Drilling tubing is piled next to a drilling site in the Unity oil field in South Sudan. (file)

Resolve Sudanese Oil Dispute Now

Sudan and South Sudan remain deadlocked in their ongoing dispute over untangling their oil industries.

Refugees rest outside at the Dollo Ado refugee camp, Ethiopia. (file)

Horn Of Africa Famine Six Months Later

The United States has ramped up its response to the crisis but the emergency still continues.

New recruits belonging to Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked al Shabaab.

Countering Violent Extremism

Factors that make some populations vulnerable to internalizing al-Qaida's worldview are still present in many communities.

Open, Peaceful Election Needed In Senegal

We encourage President Wade to pave the way for a new generation of African leaders.

An unidentified woman walks past the ruins of a market outside the state police headquarters in Kano, Nigeria. Police said that members of the radical Islamist group Boko Haram dressed in uniforms resembling those of soldiers and police officers when they

Unity Under Attack In Nigeria

The United States has reached out to the West African nation’s leaders to help find ways to restore peace and stability.

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Accountability In Kenya

International Criminal Court has ruled that four leading political figures must answer charges related to the political and ethnic

Pregnant women watch television as they wait in the pre-natal ward at Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone (2010 file photo)

Tackling Maternal Mortality

It will take political will to enact long-term systemic changes that promote gender equality and remove barriers.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Ivory Coast President Alassane Dramane Ouattara hold a joint news conference at the Presidency in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, January 17, 2012.

U.S. Committed To Democracy In Cote d'Ivoire

Cote d’Ivoire has made great progress in returning to peace, stability and economic development.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius administers polio vaccine to a child in New Delhi, India, January 13, 2012.

Sebelius On U.S. Global Health Strategy

"A health threat emerging in one corner of the world will eventually become a global health threat."

Boko Haram Dividing Nigeria, Not Addressing Grievances

Violence has flared again in northern Nigeria.

Guinea-Bissau President Malam Bacai Sanha listens during a session of the 17th African Union Summit at the Sipopo Conference Center, outside Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, (file June 30, 2011)

Peaceful Transition Needed In Guinea-Bissau

The United States offers its condolences to the family of President Malam Bacai Sanha.

A Rwandan survivor of the 1994 genocide prays over the bones of genocide victims at a mass grave in Nyamata, Rwanda, April 2004. (file photo)

More Justice For Rwandan Genocide Victims

A United Nations war crimes tribunal has sentenced two former top Rwandan political leaders to life in prison.

Female Nobel Peace Prize winners

Pursuing Peace Through Women's Involvement

“A growing body of evidence ... shows how women around the world contribute to making and keeping peace."

Tibetan monks pray during a candlelight protest march.

Fighting Discrimination, Improving Respect For Religious Freedom

“Together we have begun to overcome the false divide that pits religious sensitivities against freedom of expression."

Fernandez On How To Increase Food Production

Feed the Future is investing in entire value chains to meet growing demand and need.

A malnourished woman lies in a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee, IRC, in the town of Dadaab, Kenya, (File).

U.S. Committed To East African Relief

President Barack Obama announced that the United States was increasing its emergency aid to the region by $113 million.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Busan, South Korea

Making Aid Effective

It is critical to follow the recipient country's lead to “spark self-sustaining progress.”

African women waiting for care

Helping To Promote Good Health In Africa

The United States recently announced the latest in a series of initiatives to improve the education of nurses and midwives.

In an Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, courtroom, Swedish journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye denied supporting a rebel group.

Reporting Is Not Terrorism

Two Swedish journalists face up to 11 years in prison after a court in Ethiopia convicted them of supporting terrorism.

Clinton On Anniversary Of Refugee Convention

Sixty years ago this month, the United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees began the ratification process.

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