The US Department of State warns against all travel to the Republic of South Sudan. A cease-fire agreement negotiated by Ethiopia between the Dinka-led government and Nuer rebels has not been honored by either side, and now the Dinka and Nuer, the two main ethnic groups living in South Sudan, have embarked on a series of revenge killings. Rebels hold some towns, and there have been attacks on hospitals and UN compounds. On Jan. 3, the US government ordered most of its remaining personnel to...

The US Department of State warns that because Burundi participates in peacekeeping operations in Somalia, the terrorist organization al-Shabaab, based in Somalia, has threatened to conduct attacks in Burundi. It may also target US interests there.

Groups of armed bandits or street children pose the highest risk for visitors to the capital, Bujumbura, and Burundi in general. Exchanges of gunfire and grenade attacks are common, even in urban areas. 

The US Embassy has received...

In Urumqi, capital of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, three people were killed and 79 were injured when an explosion and a knife attack occurred at the same time at a rail station on April 30. The explosion was centered in a pile of luggage near the station’s exit and a bus stop. 

Xinjiang is home to Uyghurs, ethnically Turkic people who are largely Muslim. A separatist movement in the region has been blamed for terrorist activities in the past.