The United States said Friday the Sudanese government's ceasefire with another rebel movement is "a very important step" toward establishing peace in the western Darfur region. The ceasefire signed in Qatar Thursday by the Sudanese government and the Liberation and Justice Movement, an alliance of splinter factions, followed another brokered with the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). The latest ...

Nigeria's ruling party will hold key talks after Acting President Goodluck Jonathan in a shock move sacked a government he inherited from the country's ailing head of state, officials said Friday. The People Democratic Party's highest decision-making organ, the national executive council, was expected to meet next week after the last quarterly talks in December, sources said ...

Armed, private security guards aboard two Spanish fishing boats Friday repelled an attack from pirates in the Indian Ocean, the boats' owner said. The incident occurred southwest of the Seychelles, when the two tuna trawlers, the Taraska and Ortube Barria, were attacked by pirates aboard two boats, a spokesman for the Albacora company, Ricardo Garcia, told Spanish national radio. "Two ...

President Barack Obama is allowing thousands of Liberians living in the United States to remain in the country for an additional year and a half. A presidential memorandum issued Friday applies to Liberians who fled the country amid years of civil war and who are living in ...