JUBA -- The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Sunday expressed concern about the escalating violence between cattle keepers and settled farming communities in Eastern Equatoria State, ...

United B788 over Ivory Coast on Jan 24th 2025, sudden loss of altitude causes 38 injuries A United Boeing 787-8, registration N27903 performing flight UA-613 from Lagos (Nigeria) to Washington ...

While you were sleeping. Here’s what global agencies reported overnight from Friday to Saturday. U.S. Secretary of State ...

Iraqi law currently sets 18 as the minimum age of marriage in most cases. The changes passed Tuesday would let clerics rule according to their interpretation of Islamic law, which some interpret to ...

Iraq’s parliament passed three divisive laws Tuesday, including amendments to the country’s personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalize child marriage. The amendments give ...

Police said on Wednesday that 600 people arrested in connection with the looting "broke out from the military detention facility" in Juba district. They said 410 had since been rearrested. The mass ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Protesters gather to demonstrate against a proposed law to permit underage female marriage in Tahrir Square ...

A "sectarian" bill that could potentially legitimise child marriage in Iraq has passed into law reportedly without a vote in the parliament. The parliamentary website said "the proposal to amend ...