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Suicide bombers struck two bus stations in different parts of northern Nigeria on Tuesday, killing at least 26 people in attacks President Goodluck Jonathan blamed on Boko Haram.
The World Health Organization on Tuesday called on the international community to provide 1 billion U.S. dollars to support its on-going efforts to help people across the Central African Republic (CAR), Iraq, South Sudan and Syria.
A bomb exploded at a crowded bus station in the northeast Nigerian town of Potiskum on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people in the second attack there since the weekend.
A female suicide bomber killed five people and wounded dozens at a security checkpoint outside a market in the northeast Nigerian town of Potiskum on Sunday, witnesses said.
Libya urged the UN on Wednesday to develop a strategy to help defeat terrorism on its land by lifting the present arms embargo on it while blockading arms for extremists.
The United Nations on Wednesday called for more efforts in the last phases of the fight against Ebola to bring the number of cases down to zero.
The UN Security Council on Sunday night strongly condemned the "heinous" murder of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians by the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Libya.
Egypt's military said in a statement on state television that it had carried out an air strike against Islamic State targets in Libya at dawn on Monday, a day after the group released a video appearing to show the beheading of 21 Egyptians there.
The Egyptian Orthodox Church confirmed late on Sunday the killing of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians kidnapped by Islamic State (IS) militant group in Libya, state-run MENA news agency reported.
A 1,344-kilometer railway that traverses Angola started operating on Saturday, becoming the fastest line in the nation, according to its builder, China Railway Construction Corp.
A 1,344-kilometer railway built by China Railway Construction Corporation for Angola was completed and open to traffic on Saturday.
At least 20 people were killed in early morning attacks on two separate villages in northeastern Nigeria's state of Borno, where the insurgency of Boko Haram is yet to dissipate, a local security source and witness said on Friday.