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LRA’s Kony hunted in Central African Republic

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Saturday results from the Texas state track meet

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South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, left, and rebel leader Riek Machar, right, shake hands and pray before signing an agreement of the cease-fire of the conflict in South Sudan in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Friday, May 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Elias Asmare) ** FILE **

South Sudan peace deal hailed, but will it hold?

By Jason Straziuso - Associated Press

UN: 100,000 have fled Darfur fighting in 6 weeks

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

This photo released by the Israel Defense Forces shows a missile on an intercepted ship in the Red Sea Wednesday, March 5, 2014. Israeli naval forces raided a ship deep in the Red Sea early Wednesday and seized dozens of advanced rockets from Iran destined for Palestinian militants in Gaza, the military said. (AP Photo/IDF)

Israeli naval raid nabs rocket shipment

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

South Sudan: Patients shot dead in hospital beds

By ILYA GRIDNEFF - Associated Press

Bills shift Kan. investment policy on Sudan, Iran

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 file photo, displaced people arrive with what belongings they had time to gather by river barge from Bor, some of the thousands who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in Bor by boat across the White Nile, in the town of Awerial, South Sudan. A military spokesman in South Sudan said Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 that 200 people fleeing warfare elsewhere in the country died after a boat that was carrying mostly women and children sank while crossing the Nile River in Upper Nile State. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

200 fleeing S. Sudan violence die after boat sinks

By ILYA GRIDNEFF and RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

SMITH: Threats to South Sudan’s fragile peace

By Christopher H. Smith

In this photo released by the Kenyan Presidential Press Service, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, left, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, center, and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, right, pose for a photos before their meeting at State House in Juba, South Sudan, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013. The leaders of Kenya and Ethiopia arrived in South Sudan on Thursday to try and mediate between the country's president and the political rivals he accuses of attempting a coup that the government insists sparked violence threatening to destroy the world's newest country. (AP Photo/Kenyan Presidential Press Service)

African leaders in South Sudan for peace talks

By Jason Straziuso and Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

The United States United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power listens as Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013. The U.N. Security Council voted to temporarily increase the U.N. peacekeeping force in conflict-torn South Sudan to 12,500 troops from 7,000, a nearly 80 percent increase. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

U.N. to nearly double peace-keepers in South Sudan as violence explodes

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Men carrying automatic weapons and bags are seen in the storeroom of the Nakumatt shop during the four-day siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, which killed more than 60 people in September. A Kenyan military spokesman confirmed the names of four attackers as Abu Baara al-Sudani (left), Omar Nabhan (unseen), Khattab al-Kene (unseen) and Umayr (right). (AP Photo/Kenyan Defense Forces via Citizen TV)

Libya bristles at U.S. raid that captured al Qaeda militant

By Esam Mohamed and Tony G. Gabriel - Associated Press

Sudanese security forces reportedly fire on funeral march

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**FILE** Rep. Frank R. Wolf, Virginia Republican (Associated Press)

Wolf calls for arrest of Sudanese leader at U.N. General Assembly

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Wanted man: Sudanese President Omar Bashir, accused of genocide and other crimes, wants to address the U.N. General Assembly. (Associated Press)

Sudan’s Omar Bashir, accused of war crimes, puts U.S. in bind with visa request

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Scars reveal some of the extent of the torture endured by sub-Saharan refugees after becoming ensnared by human traffickers on the Sinai Peninsula. (Physicians for Human Rights-Israel)

Egypt: ‘In Sinai, I saw hell’; refugees are easy prey for brutal human traffickers

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

A young athlete joins Guor Mading for a jog in Juba, the capital of South Sudan. (Photograph provided by U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees)

Olympian returns to land of Lost Boys to raise awareness of Sudan refugees’ plight

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this March 30, 2010, photo reviewed by the U.S. military, a U.S. trooper stands in the turret of a vehicle with a machine gun, left, as a guard looks out from a tower at the detention facility on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

No getting out of Gitmo: U.S. can’t release detainees to state sponsors of terrorism

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Nafie Ali Nafie, National Congress Party of Sundan. (Associated Press)

White House criticized by Holocaust scholars for hosting Sudanese war criminals

By Adam Kredo — The Washington Free Beacon