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The Kenya Red Cross says at least 10 people were wounded in a grenade attack on a church service at a police camp in northern Kenya.

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) —

Representatives of an al-Qaida-linked group that controls northern Mali arrived on Saturday in Burkina Faso for talks with President Blaise Compaore, who is trying to mediate a solution to the conflict in the west African nation. A second delegation traveled to Algeria for talks with regional leaders there, officials  …

A police official says a security guard died while fending off suicide bombers who were trying to storm into a popular Mogadishu restaurant.

If the U.S. presidential election were to be determined by a bull fight in Kenya then President Barack Obama would defeat Mitt Romney.

Opposing sides in Mali's crisis have arrived in Burkina Faso for talks with President Blaise Compaore, who is trying to mediate a solution to the conflict.

A delegation from an Islamist extremist group controlling northern Mali is in Burkina Faso for talks with mediator President Blaise Compaore.

Medical charities say that a Nigerien health worker was killed by kidnappers but five others have been released.

AngloGold Ashanti said Friday it suspended operations at two mines in South Africa after hundreds of workers staged a sit-in over pay.

Soldiers in northeast Nigeria shot dead more than 40 people, likely civilians, during an operation in a city long under attack by a radical Islamist sect, a hospital official said Friday.

A budget airline in South Africa says that it has applied for liquidation.

A spokesman for the Ugandan military says Uganda will withdraw peacekeeping troops from Somalia if the United Nations Security Council accepts the findings of experts who allege Uganda supports rebels in eastern Congo.

Zimbabwe's only white government minister has said racial slurs against whites at the highest political level continue to show "a gross level of intolerance" in the southern African nation.

As midday prayers came to an end at the Grand Anwar mosque in Ethiopia's capital, worshippers continued on to what has become a regular second act on Fridays — shouting anti-government slogans.

A series of violent attacks on the Kenyan coast blamed on a separatist movement called the Mombasa Republican Council highlights a growing feeling on Kenya's sandy shores that the country's rulers have long neglected the region and taken its resources as their own. The tensions could mean more violence, especially as the …

Guinea's government swore in most members of its new electoral commission Thursday after opposition concerns earlier delayed the ceremony in a controversy that has prompted violent street protests.

The family of Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz said Thursday that he is recuperating well in France from a gunshot wound and should return home soon, even as rumors about his ill-health swirled in a western Africa nation that has suffered repeated coups.

Ghana's port authority is seeking a court order to move a seized Argentine sailing ship because it is blocking commercial business.

The family of Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz says that he is recuperating well in France from a gunshot wound and should return home soon.

Thousands of sacks of dark charcoal sit atop one another in Somalia's southern port city of Kismayo, signs of a trade once worth some $25 million dollar a year to the Islamist extremist rebels who used to control the region.

An alleged member of the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram set conditions Thursday for peace talks with Nigeria's government, asking that negotiations to end its bloody guerrilla fight be held outside of the nation and that a former military ruler be involved.

Lonmin Platinum said it must restructure its operations after violent strikes that caused the deaths of more than 40 people and reduced the company's output.

An alleged member of the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram has set conditions for peace talks with Nigeria's government.