Lawyers

• Zahara Jolie-Pitt’s Ethiopian birth mother wants to speak to her, makes plea to Angelina Jolie

  The birth mother of Zahara Jolie-Pitt is making a plea for actress Angelina Jolie to allow her to reconnect with her daughter after more than a decade.

• Israel okays immigration for last group of Ethiopian Falash Mura

  Israel on Sunday approved the entry of some 9,000 Ethiopians known as Falash Mura who claim Jewish lineage, ending decades of debate on whether to allow their immigration despite uncertainty over their right to settle in the Jewish state.

• South Sudan rebels, army again accuse each other of attacks after pact

  South Sudanese rebels and the army have accused each other for the second time this week of attacks, this time barely a day after President Salva Kiir signed a peace deal that looks increasingly fragile.

• South Sudan president signs peace deal despite concerns

  South Sudan's president signed a peace deal on Wednesday to end a 20-month conflict with rebels, but he told regional African leaders at the ceremony that he still had "serious reservations".

• Obama says more political openness would strengthen Ethiopia

  U.S. President Barack Obama told Ethiopia's leaders on Monday that allowing more freedoms would strengthen the African nation, which had already lifted millions in the once famine-stricken country out of poverty.

• Obama says yet to hear good argument against Iran nuclear deal

  U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday said he was yet to hear a strong factual argument against a nuclear deal with Iran and criticized rhetoric about the agreement from some leading members of the Republican party.

• Islamic State shoots and beheads 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya: video

  A video purportedly made by Islamic State and posted on social media sites on Sunday appeared to show militants shooting and beheading about 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya.

• 'Jihadi John' part of network linked to failed London bombers: court papers

  Islamist militant Mohammed Emwazi, identified as 'Jihadi John', was a member of a network in contact with one of the men convicted of trying to bomb the British capital's underground railway in 2005, according to the government.

• Congo fails to meet U.N. deadline to remove generals linked to abuses

  Democratic Republic of Congo failed to meet a U.N. deadline to remove two generals accused of rights abuses and will now be formally notified that peacekeepers will not support its offensive against Rwandan rebels, a U.N. official said on Saturday.

• U.S. ready to expand South Sudan sanctions to end violence: envoy

  The United States, frustrated with slow progress in South Sudan's peace process, is ready to expand sanctions against political and military figures unless warring parties end the violence quickly, the U.S. envoy to South Sudan said on Thursday.