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The attack occurred days after more than 200 people, mostly women and children, were abducted by extremists in northeastern Nigeria.

In the days after Joslin's disappearance last month, local media reported that neighbours had accused her mother of selling her for just over $1,000. The girl, Joslin Smith, has still not been found.

The conflict has uprooted more than 10 million people either to safer areas inside Sudan or to neighboring countries, according to U.N. agencies.

Anti-jihadist militia leader Shehu Mada said women from displacement camps in Ngala near the Cameroon border were gathering firewood when they were "rounded up by ISWAP insurgents".

The journey is rife with danger, said Fatima Mohammed, a 33-year-old teacher who escaped with her husband and five children from El-Obeid city in central Sudan.

Thousands of displaced people walked in the rain, some carrying sacks of clothes and others babies on their backs.

UN agencies and international aid organizations evacuated North Darfur after the war began in April, and have maintained only a limited presence since then, MSF said.

Geingob, who was serving his second term as president, revealed last month that he was receiving treatment for cancer.

Residents said they had long feared such a disaster, accusing the government of being 'irresponsible' by allowing inflammable products to be stored near their homes.

“We are allowing this to happen again, right before our eyes, on our TV screens,” South Africa's foreign minister said.

A total of 210 bodies have been discovered, an official from the genocide survivors' group Ibuka told AFP on Monday as digging on the site ended.

ADDIS ABABA (ETHIOPIA): The number of people uprooted by the war between rival generals in Sudan is almost eight million, the United Nations said Wednesday. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, who is on a visit to Ethiopia,…

The fires began Monday and were fueled by the hot, dry weather and strong coastal winds.

The attacks follow clashes in November last year that killed 32 people, including a UN peacekeeper.

Leaving the Economic Community of West African States could make trade more difficult for the three land-locked nations, making goods more expensive.

The top UN court on Friday stopped short of ordering a ceasefire in Gaza but demanded that Israel try to contain death and damage in its military offensive.

Fighting in eastern Congo has been simmering for decades as more than 120 groups fight for power, land and valuable mineral resources, while others try to defend their communities.

The decision is a preliminary stage of a case filed by South Africa at the International Court of Justice alleging that Israel's military action in its war with Hamas in Gaza amounts to genocide.

The minister also said the simple principle that must guide global governance, conversations and debates, is a conviction that no one should be left behind.

Paul Mackenzie and his followers face blame for 429 deaths. Many believed starvation would lead them to meet Jesus before the world's end.