ETHIOPIA

Kenya's Mary Keitany won her second consecutive title in the New York event that attracted more than 50,000 runners this year.

Cuba sent troops to Africa in support of leftist governments in Angola and Ethiopia in the 1970s and 1980s.

Four members of the Zone 9 blog were acquitted of terrorism charges Friday morning after spending 18 months in prison.

Twenty nations most vulnerable to climate change have joined to form the "V20" group, and urged immediate action on a "fundamental human rights issue."

The pharmaceutical company will provide 15 drugs at a cost of $1 per treatment, per month, in low-income countries.

Germany has witnessed more than 100 arson attacks on asylum shelters in recent months.

Weather agencies predict the evolving El Niño may turn into the strongest on record, bringing floods and drought to East Africa and devastating rural communities.

President Salva Kiir last week asked for more time for consultations, drawing threats of U.N. sanctions if he failed to ink it within a two-week deadline.

"This is just a harbinger of things to come," one analyst said. "African currencies are becoming extremely volatile."

The move comes just days after South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir refused to sign a peace accord aimed at ending a nearly two-year civil war.

Research trials lasting three years in Tanzania and Ethiopia found girls ages 12 to 17 were less likely to get married when offered school supplies and farm animals.

Ukraine hopes the policy change will help improve its relations with Europe.

About 800,000 youths have been displaced by the African nation's civil war, and nearly half of them have dropped out of school, a report found.

The sentencing comes after U.S. President Barack Obama’s controversial trip to Ethiopia, during which he called on the government to improve its record on human rights.

The U.N. finalized a “historic” roadmap to end poverty and hunger, which will be implemented after the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals expires.

While British politicians are talking tough on the migrant crisis facing the country, refugees in France are determined to get to the U.K. at any cost.

The keynote address Tuesday in Ethiopia's capital marked the end of U.S. President Barack Obama's five-day, two-nation tour of East Africa.

President Obama ended his tour of East Africa with a speech Tuesday at the African Union in Ethiopia. He is the first U.S. president to ever address the 54-member regional bloc.

Ethiopia has long been considered one of the most repressive regimes in Africa, but it has faced little pushback from Washington.

Huckabee fired back on Twitter, writing, “Tell Congress to do their constitutional duty [and] reject the Obama-Kerry #IranDeal."

U.S. President Barack Obama may press for South Sudan peace talks, but no breakthrough is expected, a senior administration official says.