ABE HEADS TO AFRICA TO BOOST JAPAN’S PROFILE
By KEN MORITSUGU Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, and his wife Akie wave as they depart for Africa, at Haneda Airport in Tokyo Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. Abe is…
East Africa
ISRAEL: MIGRANTS PROTEST OUTSIDE FOREIGN EMBASSIES
By IAN DEITCH African migrants protest in front of the American Embassy demanding asylum and work rights from the Israeli government, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. About…
US ‘LOST BOY’ AMONG MANY FLEEING S SUDAN VIOLENCE
By BEN CURTIS In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, Phillip Madol, 33, left, one of the thousands who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in…
SOUTH SUDAN’S WARRING FACTIONS MEET IN ETHIOPIA
By ELIAS MESERET and BEN CURTIS Grang Demebiar, left, the son of late Sudanese politician John Garang, who is in the group supporting ousted Vice President Riek Machar, as Grang…
OPPOSITION: EX-RWANDAN INTELLIGENCE CHIEF KILLED
By RAY FAURE and MICHELLE FAUL JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Rwanda’s former spy chief has been found dead in a hotel in South Africa, and police said Thursday they have opened…
S SUDAN REBELS TAKE MOST OF STRATEGIC CITY OF BOR
By JASON STRAZIUSO The United States special envoy to South Sudan Donald Booth speaks to the media, as U.S. Ambassador to South Sudan Susan D. Page, left, listens in Juba,…
A LOOK AT SOUTH SUDAN, YOUNG BUT RESTIVE COUNTRY
A displaced woman makes tea for others inside a United Nations compound which has become home to thousands of people displaced by the recent fighting, in Juba, South Sudan Friday,…
AFRICAN LEADERS IN SOUTH SUDAN FOR PEACE TALKS
By JASON STRAZIUSO and RODNEY MUHUMUZA In this photo released by the Kenyan Presidential Press Service, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, middle, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, right, and Kenyan…