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Up to 20 people were killed and at least 40 others wounded, according to health workers, in two days of fighting in northern Mali between Tuareg rebels and pro-government militia threatening a shaky year-old peace deal.

Hundreds of civilians displaced by recent fighting in South Sudan are struggling to find proper shelter in U.N. compounds in the capital as the rainy season begins to set in.

Just under a quarter of a million children in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno, where an insurgency waged by jihadists Boko Haram has disrupted trade andhealthcare, suffer from life-threatening malnourishment, UNICEF said on Tuesday.

The last words of an evangelist who was killed while she was street-preaching here on Saturday (July 9) were, "Blood of Jesus," her husband told Morning Star News.

A pastor was hacked to death in Nigeria's central state of Nasarawa following a dispute with a Muslim man over the ownership of a small plot of land as the persecution of Christians continues to escalate in the country.

South African Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius was sent to prison for six years on Wednesday for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, the latest twist in a trial that has gripped the world.

Having been kidnapped by Boko Haram, held for almost a year, and raped by several militants, 28-year-old Aisha Umar could have been forgiven for believing her ordeal was over when she escaped and returned to her hometown in northeast Nigeria last year.

Muslim villagers in eastern Uganda last week killed a Christian woman for refusing to allow a mosque on her property, and in the same district Muslim relatives of a young Christian mother poisoned her baby, sources said.

Across the Central African Republic, up to 60 children die every day due to malnutrition, according to aid organization Action Against Hunger (ACF).

The Muslim father of a 9-year-old boy in eastern Uganda who put his faith in Christ this month tied his son to a tree and burned him, sources said.

Liberia has reached the end of active Ebola virus transmission, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday, the fourth such declaration from one of the west African countries at the epicenter of the world's worst outbreak of the disease.

Nigerian officials scrambled to calm religious tensions after Muslims in Kano state on Thursday (June 2) killed a Christian pastor's wife on a baseless "blasphemy" charge, according to reports.

At least one Christian was killed, several injured and two church buildings attacked in central Nigeria's Niger state after a Facebook exchange resulted in a Muslim accusation of blasphemy, sources said.

Jacqueline Zoutene's father was a pastor, so she grew up with God's Word in Central Africa. Now, as she sees her region being terrorized by the Muslim sect Boko Haram, she fears for her loved ones but continues to draw her strength from the Bible. In fact, she turned her commitment to God into a job working for the United Bible Societies since 2006.

A church pastor in Sudan is feared to get a death sentence if the government, known for its notoriety against Christians, will accuse him of crimes against the state, which carry a penalty of death. The pastor has been illegally detained for five months without any charges made against him.

The first of more than 200 schoolgirls missing for over two years after they were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants in Chibok in northeast Nigeria has been found, a parents group and local officials said on Wednesday.

Jihadists in the Democratic Republic of Congo killed without mercy 50 Christians mostly women and children this month of May alone, adding to their 500 victims from the time they began their rampage in 2014.

Kenya is shutting down world's largest refugee camp in Dadaab that caters 350,000 Somalis citing national security as the reason, despite the United Nations plea to reconsider the decision.

Sudan released one of the two Christian church leaders the government has arrested and jailed since December without charges.

Faith leaders and scientists have formed a coalition to urge Barack Obama to undertake "meaningful" steps to minimize the threat of "nuclear catastrophe" ahead of the President's visit to Hiroshima, Japan on May 27.

Christian and South Africa's top anti-corruption official fear for her life after learning that a group of men has been hired to kill her.

Rescuers were surprised to find a baby girl that survived three days without food and water under the rubble of a collapsed residential building in the Kenyan capital.

Muslims in a village in eastern Uganda last week killed Christians' pigs and tore down their church building, sources said.

The sons of a Christian woman who was martyred for her faith in Ethiopia have embraced Christ after witnessing the faith and courage of their mother.

Christian rocker Bono has shared what he believes is the best way to help refugees fleeing the violence and oppression prevalent in countries like Iraq and Syria.