Africa

Africa

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  Obama visit to Kenya? Only 1 day in Africa so far

  President Barack Obama promised to visit his father's homeland — Kenya — before the end of his presidency, but of the 51 country visits Obama made the ... 

• Congo rebels say peace talks at standstill

  Peace talks between the Congolese government and rebels believed to be backed by Rwanda have reached a standstill and could fail if regional ... 

• Mali's Ansar Dine splits into 2

  One wing of Mali's Ansar Dine rebel group has split off to create its own movement, saying that they want to negotiate a solution to the crisis in ... 

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  Jordanians vote for newly empowered parliament

  Jordanians voted Wednesday for a parliament with wider authority, as the king cedes some of his powers to try to prevent simmering dissent from ... 

• 3 beheaded, 5 others killed in northeast Nigeria

  Officials say suspected fighters from a radical Islamist sect beheaded three people in a northeastern Nigerian city where gunfire has echoed through ... 

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  Nigerian leader warns of Mali terror spillover

  Nigeria's president is warning that if Islamist terrorists in Mali are not contained there will be a spillover effect upon some Western and African ... 

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  Algeria: 8 troops hurt while ending hostage crisis

  Algeria says it did not sustain heavy losses and that only eight soldiers suffered minor wounds during a four-day siege of a gas plant by ... 

• New pipeline attack shows Nigeria unrest spreads

  Thick plumes of smoke rose into the sky and fire danced across the fuel-slicked waters surrounding the Nigerian pipeline, another attacked and ... 

• Clinton: 'very promising leads' on Benghazi attack

  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the FBI is "following some very promising leads and putting together cases" as they investigate the ... 

• Groups call for Somali gov't to release journalist

  Rights groups on Wednesday called for the Somali government to release a journalist arrested by police for interviewing a woman who said she was raped ... 

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  Malian army ill-equipped to fight Islamists

  Explosions rang out at 3 a.m. last week as the radical Islamists descended on the town of Diabaly, home to a Malian military camp. Residents cowering ... 

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  Morocco to change law allowing rape marriage

  Nearly a year after Morocco was shocked by the suicide of a 16-year-old girl who was forced to marry her alleged rapist, the government has announced ... 

• Egypt's top cleric cancels Saudi trip over slight

  Cairo airport officials say Egypt's top Muslim cleric cancelled a visit to Saudi Arabia at the invitation of its monarch when he discovered that ... 

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  US begins transporting French troops to Mali

  Pentagon officials say the U.S. airlift of French forces to Bamako could continue for another two weeks. It's expected to take about 30 C-17 flights ... 

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  Algeria scours Sahara for 5 missing foreigners

  Algerian forces scoured the Sahara Desert on Tuesday, searching for five foreign energy workers who vanished during a chaotic four-day battle with ... 

• Pentagon: AQ ally is top suspect in Algeria attack

  The Pentagon on Tuesday stopped short of saying al-Qaida's North Africa affiliate is definitely to blame for the deadly Algeria terrorist attack, but ... 

• Rights group says Egypt police behaves like 'gang'

  An Egyptian rights group on Tuesday accused the country's police of "acting like a gang," torturing detainees and continuing to use violence to impose ... 

• 18 killed in northeast Nigeria market attack

  A deputy governor in Nigeria says 18 people were killed in an attack on a local market there. Borno state deputy Gov. Zanna Mustapha said Tuesday he ... 

• UN chief: No dialogue with Mali insurgents

  U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says "dialogue is not possible at this time" with Mali's Islamic insurgents and that the solution to the unrest in ... 

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  Charles Taylor appeals war crimes conviction

  Prosecutors urged judges Tuesday to reject former Liberian President Charles Taylor's appeal against his war crimes conviction and 50-year prison ... 

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  Top to bottom changes in Congress' foreign policy

  A harrowing nighttime flight over the African jungle and a wild search for a rebel leader helped forge a relationship between Democratic Sen.