FABIO BUCCIARELLI FOR AL JAZEERA AMERICA A fresh wave of violence is upending the world’s youngest country even aid efforts continue A top U.N. official on Wednesday told the Security Council that a fresh wave of violence in South Sudan is dragging the world’s youngest country closer to a “humanitarian catastrophe” as the global body
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Agence France Presse SourceAgence France Presse A former executive with a U.S.-based international adoption agency which sought to connect American families with Ethiopian children has admitted fraud, a U.S. Justice Department statement said Wednesday. Alisa Bivens, the former foreign program director of International Adoption Guides Inc. (IAG), an adoption agency in North and South Carolina,
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Agence France Presse SourceAgence France Presse A former executive with a U.S.-based international adoption agency which sought to connect American families with Ethiopian children has admitted fraud, a U.S. Justice Department statement said Wednesday. Alisa Bivens, the former foreign program director of International Adoption Guides Inc. (IAG), an adoption agency in North and South Carolina,
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AFP Russian hackers stole 1.2 billion Internet credentials from major US companies and others around the world in what is likely the biggest data breach ever, security researchers said Tuesday. The US firm Hold Security said the gang which it dubbed “CyberVor” collected confidential user names and passwords were stolen from some 420,000 websites, ranging
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By Doyle McManus Los Angeles Times The Obama administration erred on the side of inclusion in deciding which leaders to invite to its ambitious U.S.-Africa summit this week — at least in the view of human rights advocates.. The guest list featured some of Africa’s nastiest tyrants, including autocrats such as Angola’s Jose Eduardo dos
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BBC Peace has proved difficult to maintain in South Sudan since conflict began in December South Sudan rebels have failed to attend the second day of peace talks aimed at ending months of conflict, mediators say. Organisers of the talks said it was not clear why they had not shown up. On Monday, rebel negotiators
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Human Rights Watch By Daniel Bekele Three notorious African leaders – Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, Eritrea’s Isaias Afewerki, and Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir – are not invited to this week’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C. But a number of other long-ruling African strongmen, like Angola’s José Eduardo dos Santos, Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni, will be there. In fact, over a dozen African countries which will be
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By Damian Zane BBC Africa, Washington The traditional music plays and children, some dressed in Ethiopian costume, perform a traditional dance: Raising and lowering their shoulders to the beat. Like millions of other children in the United States, these American-Ethiopians are at summer camp. However, this one is about maintaining their connection with their roots
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