Jason Straziuso

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Kenya: US Embassy increases defenses amid threat

Jason Straziuso · June 5, 2014 3:42 pm

The interior of the La Chaumiere restaurant which was the scene of a Saturday night attack, in the capital Djibouti city, Djibouti on Sunday, May 25, 2014. The European Union Naval Force and the African Union on Sunday both condemned an attack the government said involved two Somali suicide bombers in the tiny East African nation of Djibouti. At least three people were killed, including a male and female suicide bomber, and over a dozen wounded in an attack on a restaurant popular with Westerners in central Djibouti, local media said today. (AP Photo)

Bomb attack in tiny Djibouti condemned

Jason Straziuso · May 25, 2014 11:18 pm

S Sudan famine risk remains despite $600M pledge

Jason Straziuso · May 23, 2014 5:09 pm

EDS NOTE: RECROP OF NAI113. Security forces secure the scene at the site where two blasts detonated, one in a mini-van used for public transportation, in a market area of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, May 16, 2014. Two blasts hit Kenya's capital on Friday, killing a number of people and injuring many more, in what appeared to be the latest in a string of increasingly frequent terror attacks. (AP Photo)

Bombings kill 10, wound 70 in Kenyan market

Jason Straziuso · May 16, 2014 9:29 pm

Security forces secure the scene at the site where two blasts detonated, one in a mini-van used for public transportation, in a market area of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, May 16, 2014. Two blasts hit Kenya's capital on Friday, killing a number of people and injuring many more, in what appeared to be the latest in a string of increasingly frequent terror attacks. (AP Photo)

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US Embassy in Kenya requests security upgrade

Jason Straziuso · May 16, 2014 8:01 pm

South Sudan gov’t Twitter feed: No vote next year

Jason Straziuso · May 12, 2014 2:44 pm

In this Friday, May 9, 2014 image made from video, 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. The South Sudan's president has reached a cease-fire agreement with the rebel leader, an African regional bloc said Friday, after a vicious cycle of revenge killings drew international alarm. (AP Photo/AP Video)

New fighting in South Sudan 2 days after ceasefire

Jason Straziuso · May 11, 2014 11:12 am

In this Friday, May 9, 2014 image made from video, 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. The South Sudan's president has reached a cease-fire agreement with the rebel leader, an African regional bloc said Friday, after a vicious cycle of revenge killings drew international alarm. (AP Photo/AP Video)

South Sudan peace deal hailed, but will it hold?

Jason Straziuso · May 10, 2014 8:00 pm

Malnourished children sit on a bed at Banadir Hospital, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Aid groups in Somalia are warning that seasonal rains are failing and mass hunger could again descend on the country. The U.N.'s food and security unit says 51,000 children are severely malnourished and are at high risk of death. Aid groups said Wednesday that despite such a grim number only 12 per cent of the needed aid funds in 2014 have been met. Aid groups say an additional (Canadian) $822 million is needed. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Somalia rains failing, hunger coming, say groups

Jason Straziuso · May 7, 2014 8:08 pm

In this photo taken Tuesday, April 29, 2014 and released by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Wednesday, April 30, 2014, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, center, accompanied by Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng, left, meets with South Sudan's former Vice President and now rebel leader Riek Machar, right, at an undisclosed location in South Sudan. The U.N.'s top official for human rights told a news conference in South Sudan's capital Juba on Wednesday that the country is on the verge of catastrophe because of a deadly mix of recrimination, hate speech and revenge killings since December and that she is appalled by the apparent lack of concern by leaders in South Sudan over the risk of a potential famine. (AP Photo/UNMISS)

Famine fears in S. Sudan; but leaders unconcerned

Jason Straziuso · April 30, 2014 2:32 pm

In this image taken from video, dead bodies lie on the road near Bentiu, South Sudan, on Sunday, April 20, 2014. The United Nations' top humanitarian official in South Sudan, Toby Lanzer, told The Associated Press in a phone interview on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, that the ethnically targeted killings are "quite possibly a game-changer" for a conflict that has been raging since mid-December and that has exposed longstanding ethnic hostilities. There was also a disturbing echo of Rwanda, which is marking the 20th anniversary this month of its genocide that killed 1 million people. (AP Photo/Toby Lanzer, United Nations)

‘Piles and piles’ of bodies in S. Sudan slaughter

Jason Straziuso · April 23, 2014 3:15 am

Rwanda orphans school teaches unity post-genocide

Jason Straziuso · April 11, 2014 5:00 pm