Africa analyst, Bronwyn Bruton, said she does not expect to hear a lot about human rights issues during the forthcoming US/Africa leaders’ summit in Washington. Bruton,...
Nigeria has formally asked the U.N. Security Council al-Qaida sanctions committee to blacklist the Islamist militant group Boko Haram after the kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls,...
Kenyan troops invaded the al-Qaida affiliated al-Shabaab’s last stronghold in Somalia, coming ashore in a predawn assault Friday. Other African Union forces were traveling overland to...
Soldiers manning a checkpoint in northern Nigeria shot to death two ranking members of a radical Islamist sect responsible for hundreds of killings this year alone,...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to reporters at the White House, Aug 20, 2012. PHOTO/Reuters President Barack Obama said Monday the U.S. would reconsider its opposition...
President Barack Obama arrives for a campaign rally at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., Saturday, May 5, 2012. PHOTO/Steve Helber/AP President Barack Obama plunged into...
President Barack Obama says the anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden is a time for reflection, and he pushed back on criticism that the...
Two motorcycle-riding suicide bombers (suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect) drove into a convoy carrying a top police official in northeast Nigeria on...
A suicide bomber and a man armed with explosives attacked two Nigerian newspaper offices on Thursday, killing seven people and wounding at least 26. The radical...
Explosions at one of the Kenyan capital’s main bus terminals killed at least six people and left two dozen others wounded Saturday, officials and witnesses said....
The man who smuggled a bomb in his underwear aboard a commercial airliner on Christmas Day in 2009 has been sentenced to life in prison, months...
U.S. President., Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama vowed Thursday the United States will remain the world’s pre-eminent military power even as the Pentagon scales back...
Somali officials said Friday they are pleading with U.S. authorities to persuade banks to reconsider a decision to block money transfers from Minnesota’s Somali community to...
Invoking the elimination of Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama on Thursday forcefully rejected Republican criticism of his foreign policy as what amounts to a policy...
Ethiopia said Friday it may contribute troops to the African Union force in Somalia fighting al-Qaida-affiliated insurgents. East African leaders meeting in the Ethiopian capital of...
Powerful politicians helped form a radical Muslim sect responsible for hundreds of killings this year in Nigeria, authorities allege, but now may have lost control of...
Nigeria faces a shapeless, shifting threat from a radical Muslim sect that has killed more than 100 people in recent days. While the country boasts one...
Eritrea has rejected Kenyan allegations that it may be arming al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia, as a diplomatic row between the two countries intensifies. Moses Wetangula, Kenya’s...
By the time U.S. military forces left Somalia in 1994 after entering the lawless nation more than a year earlier to stop a famine, 44 Army...
WASHINGTON (AP) - But with 100,000 U.S. troops currently in Afghanistan, that drawdown may not be substantial enough to satisfy some lawmakers on Capitol Hill and...
