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Muhamad Yehia BENTIU, South Sudan (AP) — Elizabeth Nyachiew was 16 when she watched her neighbor bleed to death during childbirth. She vowed to become a midwife to spare others from the same fate in South Sudan, a country with one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates. “If I …

Muhamad Yehia KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo will receive the first vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak next week from the United States, the country’s health minister said Monday, days after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in Africa a global emergency. Mpox cases have been confirmed among children and adults …

Muhamad Yehia ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey hosted a second round of talks on Monday between east African neighbors Ethiopia and Somalia to try and resolve a dispute over Ethiopia’s deal with the breakaway region of Somaliland, officials said. Tensions between the two African countries have simmered since Ethiopia signed a memorandum of …

Muhamad Yehia ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey and Russia have resumed joint military patrols in northern Syria after nearly a year’s break, the Turkish Defense Ministry announced Saturday. Combined patrols began in the Operation Peace Spring area, the statement said, referring to a 30-kilometer (19-mile) -deep strip of land on the …

Muhamad Yehia CAIRO (AP) — Food aid is on the way to an area of Sudan facing famine amid the northeast African country’s grinding conflict, a group of countries and the United Nations said in a joint statement Friday. The statement came at the conclusion of more than a week of talks …

Muhamad Yehia UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The top U.N. official in Libya warned Tuesday that the political, military and security situation in the oil-rich north African country has deteriorated “quite rapidly” over the past two months – and without renewed political talks leading to a unified government and elections there …

Muhamad Yehia CHICAGO (AP) — The Democratic National Convention’s third night showcased a familiar former president, Bill Clinton, and introduced more Americans to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, little known outside his state until Vice President Kamala Harris selected him as her running mate. Walz, with his background as a former teacher and football coach, used his speech …

Muhamad yehia JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African prosecutors withdrew immigration-related charges against 95 Libyan nationals who were arrested last month at what police called an illegal military training camp in the northern Mpumalanga province, officials said Thursday. Police had said that the men — who entered the country on study visas — …

Muhamad Yehia & Sahar ragab JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s controversial security legislation allowing the arrest of people without warrants has become law even though the president has not signed it, parliament’s spokesperson said Thursday. Spokesperson Oliver Mori told The Associated Press that the bill had become law …

 Sahar ragab & Muhamad Yehia ISTANBUL (AP) — Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas pledged Thursday to travel to Gaza as the Israel-Hamas war has raged on for more than 10 months. Addressing the Turkish parliament in Ankara, Abbas also called on Muslim leaders to join him in the enclave, where, according to health …