15 injured in clash with security forces in Guinea

A government spokesman says at least 15 people were injured, four of them by bullet wounds, during a protest in Guinea's capital between oppos…

S. Sudan leader: Int'l court 'humiliates' Africa

South Sudan's president is criticizing the International Criminal Court, saying the court is designed to humiliate African leaders.

Belmoktar claims responsibility for Niger attack

By DALATOU MAMANE and RUKMINI CALLIMACHI

International terrorist Moktar Belmoktar, whose group led the January attack on the Ain Amenas gas plant in Algeria, has announced that his fi…

UN chief visits Goma, Congo

By MELANIE GOUBY

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed Thursday that security must go hand-in-hand with development in Congo's troubled eastern…

Violence in Somalia scares investors, aid workers

By ABDI GULED

A spate of attacks by Islamic insurgents in Somalia's capital is forcing investors, businessmen and aid workers to have second thoughts about …

Togo police fire tear gas at protesters

Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the latest confrontation between the ruling party and Togo's increasingly active opposition. D…

Amid signs of turmoil, S Sudan says oil will flow

By CHARLTON DOKI

Following a lengthy Cabinet meeting, South Sudan's government spokesman said Wednesday that the country will continue to export oil through Su…

Opposition in Burkina Faso vow to fight Senate law

Opposition parties walked out of a meeting in parliament this week in protest over the creation of a Senate. The opposition claims the Senate …

'Boom Town Baby': African stock markets see gains

By JASON STRAZIUSO

The barrage of hourly tweets sent out by Aly-Khan Satchu _ East Africa's version of CNBC's Mad Money host Jim Cramer _ cheers on what Satchu s…

Kenya's truth report: Killings, land grabs, graft

By TOM ODULA

Kenya's president received a long-awaited Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission report that names the president and his deputy as being …

Polio cases found in Kenya and Somalia, WHO says

The World Health Organization says the Horn of Africa is experiencing an outbreak of polio with cases confirmed in Kenya and Somalia.

Zimbabwe's president signs new constitution

By GILLIAN GOTORA

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday signed into law a new constitution and vowed to hold peaceful and clean elections later this year.

Malawi finds buyer for presidential jet

Malawi's cost-cutting president is selling her predecessor's jet.

African Union celebrates 50th year

By KIRUBEL TADESSE

African nations this week mark the 50th year since the founding of a continentwide organization that spearheaded efforts to liberate Africa fr…

Ethiopian corruption watchdog arrests 51 suspects

Ethiopian authorities have carried out another wave of arrests that brings the number of people detained on suspicions of corruption to more than 50.

Nigeria: Islamic extremist inmates to be released

By JON GAMBRELL

Nigeria's military said Tuesday that the West African nation would release some of the prisoners it has taken in the country's fight against I…

New Egypt tax law: cuts for poor, business hikes

By AYA BATRAWY

Egypt's president signed a new tax law Tuesday that cuts the amount paid by poorer Egyptians in the latest move aimed at reforming the country…

Thousands of women protest death in Togo

Thousands of women have taken to the streets in Togo to protest the death of an opposition figure who had been jailed.

China vice-premier arrives in Zimbabwe

Chinese vice-premier Wang Yang has arrived in Zimbabwe at the start of an official trip to view his nation's burgeoning trade and development …

South Africa: Winnie Mandela forced auction flops

By WANDOO MAKURDI

There were no bidders and no locksmiths willing to force entry for a scheduled auction Tuesday to sell artworks and other belongings of Nelson…

Fighting for 2nd day between army, rebels in Congo

By MELANIE GOUBY

Fighting between the M23 rebels and the army continued for a second day Tuesday near Congo's eastern provincial capital of Goma, in clashes th…

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…

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

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA

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 …

Cholera outbreak hits Malian refugee camp in Niger

The United Nations refugee agency said that they are working to contain a cholera outbreak in Niger in a refugee camp for people fleeing the c…

South Africa: Mandela name pulled into politics

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA

Nelson Mandela, old and frail, lives in seclusion in his Johannesburg home. Beyond the high walls of the house, the fighting over his image an…

Talks to resume with Mali government, Tuaregs

By BRAHIMA OUEDRAOGO

Talks will resume soon between the Malian government and an ethnic Tuareg rebel group whose influence has been growing in the country's north,…

Militiamen attack gas complex in western Libya

By ESAM MOHAMED

A Libyan gas company official says militiamen have attacked a natural gas complex in the country's west, injuring two guards and stealing weap…

Rebels attack C. African Republic villages; 8 dead

By JOSE RICHARD POUAMBI

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

51 die in 2 South Sudan clashes; army retakes town

By CHARLTON DOKI

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

Spokesman for Ansar Dine arrested in Mauritania

By AHMED MOHAMED

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 M…

Spokesman for Ansar Dine arrested in Mauritania

By AHMED MOHAMED

A government official says the spokesman for one of the al-Qaida-linked groups that occupied and controlled northern Mali for much of last yea…

'Britain's Obama' urges ties with West Africa

By ROBBIE COREY-BOULET

A rising star in Britain's Labour Party, described by some as the "British Barack Obama," Chuka Umunna urged the United Kingdom to more aggres…

Zimbabwe PM: We will end police, military abuse

By GILLIAN GOTORA

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

Kenya police kill "terror couple"

By TOM ODULA

Police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight stand-off, a polic…

Ivory Coast army arrests militia leader

By ROBBIE COREY-BOULET

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

Journalist found dead in eastern Congo

By MELANIE GOUBY

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 …

Politics, bribery charges swirl around Ugandan oil

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA

Even before the first drops flow, Uganda's oil sector is beset by bribery allegations against officials, tax-related cases abroad that cost th…

Ex-warlord Johnson in Liberia quits his own party

By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH

Prince Johnson, a former warlord-turned-politician who is best known for having videotaped himself overseeing the torture of Liberia's ex-pres…

Zimbabwe PM confident he'll oust Mugabe in vote

By GILLIAN GOTORA

Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday he is poised to sweep to victory in upcoming presidential elections and return the natio…

23 dead in initiation rites in South Africa

By WANDOO MAKURDI

Twenty-three youths have died in the past nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests, South African poli…

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…

More than 20 killed in Congo mine collapse

The government of Congo says more than 20 people have died in a collapse at a bush mine in the region of Masisi in North Kivu province. That's…

Son of 'disappeared' Arab in Mali also arrested

Relatives say Mohamed Ould Ali, an employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross, has been arrested in Mali's capital. He had been …

Mystical branch of Islam has resurgence in Somalia

By ABDI GULED

Hundreds of sweating Sufis chant and sway as the lead sheik moves into the middle of a circle of worshippers and bursts into a chant louder th…

South African army prepares for Congo

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA

South African soldiers who are training for a United Nations military mission in Congo will be adequately prepared even though the South Afric…

9 activists arrested in Equatorial Guinea

A human rights group says authorities in Equatorial Guinea have arrested nine activists before this month's legislative elections.

Rwanda building collapse kills 6, injures 30

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA

Six people were killed and dozens more injured when a four-story building under construction collapsed in eastern Rwanda, police said Wednesda…

Nigeria president declares state of emergency in 3 states because of Islamic extremist attacks.

Correction: Somaliland-Rapes story

By ABDI GULED

In a story May 12 about rapes in a region of Somalia known as Somaliland, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Somaliland declared i…

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