A radical Muslim sect attacked a church worship service in Nigeria’s northeast during assaults that killed at least 15 people, authorities said Saturday, as Christians vowed...
Attackers threw homemade explosives inside an Islamic school in a predominantly Christian city where some 50 children had gathered for an Arabic class, wounding six pupils...
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s supreme court confirms President Joseph Kabila’s election victory. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
Witnesses and authorities say at least four people died in an apparent attack on a northeast Nigeria city that saw churches and businesses burned to the...
A man receives a monthly supply of food aid donated to residents of a squatter camp for poor white South Africans. (REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly) When stories are...
Lindiwe Mazibuko Picture: Gallo Images/Foto24/Nasief Manie South Africa’s main opposition party has for the first time elected a black woman to lead it in parliament. Thursday’s...
Members of Kenya’s army march dais during a recent ceremony in Nairobi. A push by Kenyan ground forces toward a strategic Somali town has been slowed...
Voting has ended in a Zambian general election that E.U. observers say was conducted in a as fair and transparent manner, despite scattered incidents of violence...
Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya Kenya’s prime minister was evacuated from his office after a grenade was discovered in another part of the building,...
KAMPALA, Uganda — A Ugandan judge has convicted two suspects over bombings last year that killed 76 people in the East African nation. Judge Owiny Dollo...
China and India replace Britain as Kenya’s top sources of foreign direct investment FDI The latest economic data shows that China, India, South Africa, and South...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Virtually all of the detainees say they are innocent migrant workers, and in most cases there is no evidence that they are...
ABUJA, Nigeria — Rescue official: At least 7 dead in car bomb attack on UN building in Nigeria’s capital. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights...
The Nigerian naira fell to its weakest in almost two months against the U.S. dollar on the interbank market on Monday after the central bank removed...
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Hundreds of students in Burkina Faso crowded into a courtroom to watch a trial over a student’s death that sparked months of...
NAIROBI, Kenya — An international aid group says it has launched an initiative to get Africans and their governments to donate to famine relief efforts in...
LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria’s president is proposing limiting the president and governors to one term. A spokesman for President Goodluck Jonathan says the term would be...
MONROVIA, Liberia — Football star George Weah returned to Liberia to a hero’s welcome after receiving a degree in business administration from DeVry University in Miami....
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice is leading a U.S. delegation to Juba for Saturday's ceremonies marking the independence of South Sudan, the White...
JUBA, Sudan — Lual D’Awol cultivated a passion for rap and basketball while living in Baltimore. Today he is in Southern Sudan, which becomes the world’s...
