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The West has poured hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid into Africa's Sahel region, but violent extremism is only getting worse. VICE World News went to the front line to find out why.

Ummu Kalthum is one of the youngest – and most successful – mediators brokering deals to free Boko Haram hostages in Nigeria.

"If you have several thousand hogs packed in together and they're all genetically largely the same, that selects for the most virulent pathogens."

Italy is releasing some of its most brutal mafiosi from prison. Their families are also seizing on the opportunity to hand out loans, sell fake PPE, and extort money from vulnerable Italians.

Of 72 "protest-related" arraignments handled by New York County Defender Services, just 5% were white people.

"You know that you’re going to have their ear for a second and you know you’re going to finally be able to get a message across.”

Protesters are being held as long as 50 hours with no protective gear or ability to socially distance from other protesters in custody — or cops.

Rikers has one of the highest rates of coronavirus infections in the city.

A warlord may be a mother’s only hope to find her missing children in South Sudan.

What it's like for the EMTs battling COVID-19 in the hardest-hit city in Michigan.

The news is a glimmer of hope for the traumatized country, but ethnic tension is just under the surface in the nation's second largest city.

VICE News followed three opposition supporters through the first anti-government protest of 2020 as Juan Guaido stokes a flagging movement.