UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi meets with refugees from the Central Africa Republic in Modale site, in the North Ubangi Province, DRC. He is seen here giving a registration refugee card to a young refugee who was just relocated from the boder area in Yakoma to the new Modale site. ...

PENTAGON— American soldiers have begun training units of Niger's army at the edge of the Sahara Desert, in what a U.S. official calls a “new wave” of military support for African states battling Boko Haram militants. More training will follow for national armies in Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad, the...