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 ... 

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  AP Interview: Cameron wants UK to remain in EU

  British Prime Minister David Cameron shrugged off the possibility that his country may vote to leave the European Union, and argued Thursday that his ... 

• 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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  Al-Qaida leader's brother condemns Mali operation

  The brother of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri on Wednesday sanctioned violence against the West in retaliation for the French-led campaign against ... 

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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 ...