The UN Security Council on Thursday strongly condemned Wednesday’s deadly terrorist attack on UN peacekeepers in north Mali and reiterated that “any acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable.” “The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack on 18 May 2016 against a convoy …

An African Union human rights report called on Friday for an international police force and more military and rights observers to be sent to troubled Burundi. The AU rights investigators said it was “necessary that, apart from strengthening AU human rights monitors and military observers, an international police mission is …

Peace talks aimed at solving Burundi’s year-long crisis resumed on Saturday in Tanzania, but with the opposition barred from the meeting, there was little hope it would help strike a deal. The talks in the northern town of Arusha brought together Burundian government officials, diplomats and civil society representatives.