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  West African leaders announced Monday they would return to The Gambia to try and persuade President Yahya Jammeh to step down, but said the use of force remains an option. The mandate for Jammeh's five-year term expires on January 18, after which president-elect Adama Barrow...

As Barack Obama prepares to leave office on January 20, here are nine things his presidency may be remembered for: Making history If historians were to write only one thing about Barack Hussein Obama, they would likely note that — 143 years after slavery was abolished...

Farah remains Britain’s most popular athlete by a mile but at the Great Edinburgh International XCountry there were the first stirrings of a changing of the guard. Even after defeat they chanted Mo Farah’s name like a mantra, the cries of “Mo! Mo!” growing more...

Fixing fragile nations: lessons from Afghanistan and South Sudan IN THE middle of 2016 a suicide-bomber blew up a minibus full of judicial staff in Kabul. The injured were rushed to the Emergency Hospital in the Afghan capital. One was married to a nurse there,...

Born and raised in Somalia, Abdulqafar Abdullahi’s life path was interesting, often exciting, but not always easy. After high school, he won a scholarship to an Indian university, where he earned both a Bachelor’s degree in economics and a Master’s degree in business administration. He...

The New Year started on a mixed note with a number of lives lost in Iraq, Turkey and Somalia. But to conservationists, 2017 began in an excellent way: China pledged to stop the ivory trade, a move that is widely seen as a possible game-changer...

Ex-Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani dies in hospital after suffering a heart attack, state media reports. Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died on Sunday at the age of 82 after suffering a heart attack, according to state media. Rafsanjani was a key figure in the...

ACCRA-Nana Akufo-Addo is to be sworn in as Ghana's new president on Saturday after beating incumbent leader John Dramani Mahama in elections last month. The 72-year-old former human rights lawyer will take the oath of office at a ceremony in Independence Square in central Accra...

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Friday released its declassified report on Russia's efforts to influence the outcome of the 2016 election by hacking Democratic outfits during the campaign. The report comes a day after top intelligence officials, including Director of National...

Fatimah Hussein was born in Somalia and immigrated to Minneapolis when she was 6 with her family, fleeing civil war. Ms. Hussein and her sister played softball when they were young, but in middle school they stopped, as did many of their Muslim peers. “It...