Thousands of people who witnessed atrocities have tried to escape El Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region since paramilitary fighters seized that city in late October.
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Mthuthuzeli November was determined to get out of his impoverished home town. Now he has his work alongside George Balanchine at the Paris Opera Ballet.
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Accusing Nigeria of not doing enough to protect Christians from violence, President Trump said he had ordered the Pentagon to prepare for action.
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Election monitors and members of the European Parliament have questioned the election’s integrity, and violent protests have rocked the country.
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The United Nations said at least 10 people had been killed. Opposition leaders claimed the death toll could be in the hundreds, and one official called for the military to step in.
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Evidence of atrocities emerging from the city of El Fasher stoked fears that the Sudanese region of Darfur is plunging, once again, into a cycle of genocidal violence.
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By Declan Walsh, Sanjana Varghese and Pranav Baskar
In a major shift from the Biden administration’s policy, the United States will accept up to 7,500 refugees this fiscal year, down from 125,000.
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The hospital had served as the last refuge for many starving or injured civilians in El Fasher, a major battleground in Darfur recently seized by the Rapid Support Forces.
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The author Wole Soyinka, a vocal critic of President Trump, told the Nigerian press he did not attend a visa renewal interview requested by the State Department.
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The Sudanese military withdrew from a key city in Darfur, where fleeing civilians were reported to be coming under attack from R.S.F. paramilitary forces.
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President Alassane Ouattara won 89.77 percent of the vote, but critics called the elections flawed after two main challengers were barred from running.
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Official election results gave him an eighth term that, if completed, will last until he is 99. Mr. Biya is one of many leaders well over 70 across Africa, the world’s youngest continent.
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The Rapid Support Forces said it had seized the army headquarters in El Fasher, its last major obstacle to controlling the sprawling western region of Sudan.
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The main opposition candidates in the Ivory Coast’s presidential election have been barred from the race. Critics say the vote has been rigged.
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