With South Africa’s unemployment rate above 25 percent, hundreds of protestors marched towards the foreign ministry to demand the deportation of immigrants who are seen as taking South Africans’ jobs.
Read MoreThe Iranian government has decided to move forward with its annual war exercises, despite mounting tensions between Iran and the United States. The U.S. has deployed forces to several bodies of water surrounding Iran.
Read MoreA diplomatic feud between Turkey and the Netherlands has grown from a simple misunderstanding into a need for a referendum.
Read MoreThe United States-based NGO AIDS-Free World, which has operations in the Central African Republic (CAR), released a report in 2013 highlighting cases of sexual abuse perpetrated by European peacekeepers. The organization has continued to release statistics of reported abuse annually.
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President Jovenel Moise was sworn in as Haiti’s 58th president on February 7, inheriting a government that has been without a leader since early 2016.
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Suspected Shabab militants launched a series of attacks on the Somalian capital of Mogadishu, including one in which two mortar rounds fired close to the airport. Somalia issued a traffic ban and sealed off major streets. The travel ban also included a ban on flights flying to and from Mogadishu.
Read MoreTurkish jets have been striking targets in the al-Bab region of North Syria in an operation carried out with Syrian rebels signaling a move towards the Islamic State stronghold in Raqqa.
Read MoreIn Brussels on February 20, United States Vice President Mike Pence gave a speech to assuage fears that the White House wants to break up the European Union.
Read Morehe Trump administration placed sanctions on Iran on February 3 as retaliation to the ballistic missile test performed by Tehran on January 29. The sanctions by the United States targeted 25 Iranians who assisted in the development of the ballistic missile program in Iran.
Read MoreSix International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) employees were killed and two others went missing after an attack on February 8, in the Jowzjan Province of Afghanistan.
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