Africa

Africa

• Court frees man in murder that shocked SAfricans

  A magistrate drops charges against the boyfriend accused in the brutal gang-rape and killing of a teenager that shocked South Africans. 

• Rebels in C. African Republic protest conditions

  Some members of the rebel alliance who overthrew the president of Central African Republic are protesting outside the luxury hotel where their leader ... 

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  Uganda leader's legacy at stake in general's case

  An army general's concern that officials are at risk of assassination if they oppose President Yoweri Museveni's alleged plan to have his son succeed ... 

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  Tunisian feminist arrested for alleged provocation

  A Tunisian feminist who scandalized her country by posting topless photos of herself online has been arrested after allegedly sneaking into Tunisia's ... 

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  Egypt: Security beefed up in Sinai after abduction

  Dozens of Egyptian troops and armored vehicles moved into Sinai Monday as the government beefed up security in the volatile peninsula after the ... 

• State Dept: Reports of anti-Semitism increase

  The State Department appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism Monday as a new report documents a global increase in incidents of ... 

• M23 rebels clash with soldiers in eastern Congo

  Clashes erupted Monday in eastern Congo between government troops and a rebel group believed to be backed by neighboring Rwanda, escalating to the use ... 

• Rebels attack C. African Republic villages; 8 dead

  Suspected foreign fighters backing a rebel movement now in control of Central African Republic's government invaded a remote north-central village and ... 

• 51 die in 2 South Sudan clashes; army retakes town

  Twenty-four people died in a battle between South Sudan's military and rebel fighters the government believes to be supported by neighboring Sudan, ... 

• Spokesman for Ansar Dine arrested in Mauritania

  The man who acted as the spokesman for one of the three al-Qaida-linked groups occupying northern Mali turned himself in over the weekend to ... 

• Top Libyan official: Benghazi explosion accident

  Libya's deputy prime minister says an investigation has indicated that a deadly explosion in Benghazi last week was an accident and not an attack. 

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  Video shows kidnapped Egyptian security officers

  Seven men purported to be the members of Egypt's security forces kidnapped by suspected militants last week appeared in a video posted online Sunday ... 

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  Tunisia security blocks salafi conference, 1 dead

  Around 11,000 police officers and soldiers blocked an annual conference Sunday at Tunisia's main religious center by a radical Islamist movement that ... 

• Nigeria military: 17 killed during offensive

  Nigeria's military says its offensive against insurgents in the country's restive northeast has killed at least 14 suspected Islamic extremists and ... 

• Algerian editor accuses government of censorship

  An editor has accused Algeria's government of censorship after it blocked the publication of his two newspapers. Hicham Aboud, editor of the My ... 

• Zimbabwe PM: We will end police, military abuse

  Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Sunday his party will end years of bias and abuse by the police, military and intelligence services and ... 

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  Pedrosa wins French MotoGP to take overall lead

  Dani Pedrosa won the French Grand Prix on Sunday for his second victory of the season and took over the MotoGP championship lead from Marc Marquez. 

• 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 ... 

• 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. A security ... 

• Ivory Coast army arrests militia leader

  A militia leader accused of grave crimes during Ivory Coast's 2010-11 postelection violence was taken into custody Saturday not far from the national ... 

• Journalist found dead in eastern Congo

  The body of a Congolese journalist was found on the bank of the Ngezi River near the provincial capital of Bunia in eastern Congo, the city's mayor ... 

• Nigeria military declares 24-hour curfew in city

  Nigeria's military declared a 24-hour curfew Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern city that's the spiritual home of an Islamic extremist ... 

• Young British girl drowns at Egyptian resort

  A senior Egyptian prosecutor says a 5-year-old British girl has drowned in pool at a Red Sea resort. The official, who obtained an initial police ...