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#washingtonpost.com. × In northwest Nigeria, U.S. confronts a growing terrorist threat. Post reporters ventured to northwest Nigeria, where fighters affiliated with the Islamic State are on the offensive despite December airstrikes ordered by President Trump.

#washingtonpost.com. × Olympic ceasefire calls lay bare the scale of global conflict. The U.N. and IOC are asking for a pause in wars, an ancient Olympic tradition, amid the Winter Games. Athletes from countries beset by violence are set to compete.

#washingtonpost.com. × Kenyan job seekers were lured to Russia, then sent to die in Ukraine. The Post spoke to four Kenyans who fought in Ukraine and relatives of nine other recruits, as a secret pipeline funnels young Africans to Russia’s military.

#washingtonpost.com. × Rafah crossing between Israel and Egypt reopens after nearly two years. Some Palestinians were able to enter and exit Gaza via the crossing for the first time since May 2024. The reopening marks progress toward the ceasefire deal’s second phase.

#washingtonpost.com. × Trump HIV prevention plan shuts out South Africa — the nation most affected. Administration officials say South Africa has “significant means” to fund a promising new drug, lenacapavir, on its own. Critics call the move self-defeating.

#washingtonpost.com. × 25 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted, vice principal killed in armed attack. Officials said a search was underway for the students, who were taken from their dormitory during the overnight hours. A motive for the attack was unclear.

#washingtonpost.com. × UAE faces growing outrage over support for paramilitary in Sudan. Human rights groups, members of the U.S. government and regional experts increasingly blame the United Arab Emirates for fueling violence in Sudan.

#washingtonpost.com. × Sudan’s lost children wander through a landscape of death. Around 200 unaccompanied children have arrived in the Sudanese town of Tewila after escaping El Fashir, where RSF fighters have carried out mass killings.

#washingtonpost.com. × Ethiopia reports first outbreak of Marburg, Ebola cousin with no vaccine. At least nine cases of the rare viral hemorrhagic fever have been confirmed, the World Health Organization said Friday.

#washingtonpost.com. × 8 Palestinian factions meet to shape Gaza’s future – including Hamas. The militant movement is among eight Palestinian groups meeting in Cairo to hammer out proposed features of an interim administration for Gaza.

#washingtonpost.com. × Trump threatens potential military action in Nigeria, says aid will cease. The move is an escalation in the president’s campaign against the West African country’s government over allegedly failing to protect Christians.

#washingtonpost.com. × Tourist submarine sinks off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, killing at least 5. The submarine, carrying 45 Russian tourists, sank about a half-mile off the coast of Egypt.

#washingtonpost.com. × South Sudan’s president arrests VP, opposition says, risking imminent war. President Salva Kiir ordered the arrest of Riek Machar, the opposition said, imperiling a 2018 peace deal. Several embassies urged their citizens to leave the country.

#washingtonpost.com. × Sudan’s military says it seized control of capital city from paramilitary. There was no immediate comment from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, but footage published on social media showed its fighters streaming out of Khartoum.

#washingtonpost.com. × Trump’s global funding cuts leave a void in Africa for rivals to exploit. America’s vanishing presence in Africa has upended critical programs, severed relationships and left a vacuum that Russia and China will look to capitalize on.

#washingtonpost.com. × Column | Sudan’s bloody civil war may be reaching a turning point. International diplomacy has failed to bring an end to the war in one of Africa’s largest countries, but recent events suggest a shift in battlefield fortunes.

#washingtonpost.com. × Sudan’s military says it has retaken presidential palace from rebels. The military’s seizure of the Republican Palace in Khartoum is considered a significant symbolic victory, two years into Sudan’s devastating civil war.

#washingtonpost.com. × Arab mediators rush to salvage Gaza ceasefire as Israel restarts war. Egypt and Qatar are pushing for an emergency truce, as the Palestinian death toll from renewed Israeli strikes soared past 500 according to health officials.

#washingtonpost.com. × Unearthed Klimt painting, first dismissed, now on sale for $16 million. Gustav Klimt’s portrait of an African prince, painted when his people were displayed in a “human zoo,” was first dismissed because it didn’t “look like a Klimt.”

#washingtonpost.com. × Column | Why South Africa is in Trump’s crosshairs. Trump has turned sharply against South Africa in recent weeks. Some onlookers think the primary audience is nativist Trump supporters at home.

#washingtonpost.com. × Rubio says South African ambassador to U.S. ‘no longer welcome’. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called South Africa’s U.S. ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, “a race-baiting politician who hates America” and declared him persona non grata.

#washingtonpost.com. × U.N. humanitarian affairs chief issues warning about U.S. funding cuts. With crises from Sudan to Gaza, the United Nations is estimating that it will not be able to help some 200 million people in desperate need of humanitarian aid this year.

#washingtonpost.com. × Russia’s Wagner mercenaries are leading a campaign of terror in Mali. Fighting alongside Malian soldiers, Wagner mercenaries have massacred civilians and burned their villages in northern Mali, fueling a fast-growing refugee crisis.

#washingtonpost.com. × Athol Fugard, trenchant South African playwright, dies at 92. For works such as “Master Harold’ . . . and the Boys” and “Boesman and Lena,” he was dubbed the “conscience of South Africa.”

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