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Kenya police kill "terror couple"
Police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight stand-off, a police official said Sunday.
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Africa: Ghana wants the world to hear it
Ghana's first Music Week drew traditional performers and international headliners.
African Livestock, Poultry Exhibition opens
African Livestock and Poultry Exhibition and Congress opened for public in Addis Ababa on Thursday 16 May 2013.
Gunmen attack police station KANO - Gunmen stormed a police station...
Gunmen stormed a police station and a bank in a town in Nigeria's northwest, beyond a region covered by a military crackdown on a Islamist insurgency, a sign the offensive could provoke violence by smaller militant cells across the north.
A look at why the Benghazi issue keeps coming back
Why was a diplomatic outpost left so poorly protected? Should the Pentagon have rushed jets or special forces to the rescue when the assault began? Did President Barack Obama's administration obscure the true nature of the terrorist attack to help him get re-elected? Congressional Republicans are poking for evidence of incompetence and cover-up in ... (more)
Blasts rock Libya's capital and eastern city
Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported.
Politics, bribery charges swirl around Ugandan oil
In this 2010 file photo, an oil well undergoes testing in the Lake Albertine region of western Uganda.
Egypt Muslim-Christian clashes leave 1 dead
The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual... The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months ... (more)
Egyptians targeted with blasphemy charges
The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders. A team of Islamist lawyers with long beards sang in unison, "All except the Prophet Muhammad." The case against Dimyana Abdel-Nour in southern Egypt's ancient city of Luxor began when parents of three of ... (more)
Machete murderer who admits killing up to 400 people can't be booted out of UK
He worked for a mob behind some of Africa's worst atrocities but has been living here in a taxpayer-funded home since 2003 A murderer who admits killing up to 400 people - many in bloody machete attacks - is living in the UK after being granted asylum.
Official: Nigeria military attacks suspected Islamic extremist camps in northeast, killing 21
Soldiers in northeast Nigeria shelled suspected camps of Islamic extremists in the first military action of a new offensive against the insurgents, killing at least 21 people, a security official said Friday.
Hostage died 'minutes into rescue'
A British construction worker was murdered by his Islamist kidnappers just minutes after a joint UK and Nigerian rescue operation stormed into the compound where he and an Italian man were being held, an inquest heard.
Zim PM confident of unseating Mugabe
Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday he is poised to sweep to victory in upcoming presidential elections and return the nation to the world community after years of isolation.
S. Sudan: Doctors Without Borders hospital ruined
The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders says one of its medical facilities located in a rural but violent region of South Sudan has been ransacked and destroyed.
Hints of political change on horizon in Algeria
With the president in a French hospital recovering from a stroke, the generation of aging politicians and generals that has run Africa's largest country for a half-century is reaching its end.
23 dead in initiation rites in South Africa
In this July 7, 2006 file photo an unidentified initiate, with his face caked in white lime clay, eats rice from his blanket during his rite of transformation from a boy to manhood near Port St.
Seven Egyptian security personnel abducted in Sinai
Suspected militants in Egypt's Sinai abducted seven security personnel as they headed to Cairo for holidays early today, security officials said.
Libyans find escape in art cinema
In the basement of an art gallery in central Tripoli, young Libyans seeking an escape from violence and disorder watch an American movie classic screened using a simple projector and laptop.
CNN: US updates plan for "capture or kill" mission in Libya over Benghazi attack
Ahem . Didn't Barack Obama warn American news agencies that all your phone records are belong to us if they published leaks about US intel and military efforts? Oh, wait - that apparently doesn't apply to stories that make the White House look good at least relatively speaking.
South African army chief says troops ready for Congo after learning lessons in CAR
South African soldiers who are training for a United Nations military mission in Congo will be adequately prepared even though the South African army as a whole is overstretched and underfunded, the army chief said Thursday.