Africa News Headlines

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — A plane carrying senior officials from Guinea to Liberia crashed near Liberia's largest airport on Monday, killing Guinea's army chief of staff and five others, officials said.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's foreign affairs minister on Monday criticized European Union ambassadors in person for what he called an orchestrated attempt to favor a presidential candidate in Kenya's upcoming elections.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's foreign minister has rebuked European Union ambassadors over what the minister says appears to be an orchestrated attempt to influence Kenya's presidential election.

GAO, Mali (AP) — French and Malian government forces on Monday have regained control of this strategic northern city, after Islamic fighters invaded through the city's harbor Sunday and fought a protracted battle for hours in the heart of downtown.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Police in Somalia say a suicide car bomb attack that targeted a senior police commander in a central Somali town killed only the bomber.

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia's information minister says that a plane carrying an official delegation from Guinea to attend Liberia's Armed Forces Day celebration in the capital has crashed.

GAO, Mali (AP) — Black-robed Islamic extremists armed with AK-47 automatic rifles invaded Gao in wooden boats Sunday to launch a surprise attack on the most populous city in northern Mali, two weeks after French and Malian troops ousted the jihadists.

GAO, Mali (AP) — Black-robed Islamic extremists armed with AK-47 automatic rifles invaded Gao in wooden boats Sunday to launch a surprise attack on the most populous city in northern Mali, two weeks after French and Malian troops ousted the jihadists.

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — More than 100 people were killed in a violence-prone region of South Sudan when one tribe attacked another while cattle were being moved across land, officials said Sunday.

POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) — Assailants in northeastern Nigeria killed three North Korean doctors, beheading one of the physicians, in the latest attack on health workers in a nation under assault by a radical Islamic sect, officials said Sunday.

GAO, Mali (AP) — Black-robed Islamic extremists, armed with AK-47 automatic rifles, invaded the center of Gao, the most populous city in northern Mali, fighting the Malian army Sunday afternoon.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Police in South Africa said Sunday they arrested the "ringleader" of a group of 19 Congolese rebels who now face charges of allegedly plotting a war to unseat Congolese President Joseph Kabila.

GAO, Mali (AP) — A suicide bomber wearing military fatigues blew himself up near a checkpoint at the entrance to northern Mali's largest city, wounding one soldier in the second attack to hit the same location since Friday, residents and officials said Sunday.

GAO, Mali (AP) — A suicide bomber wearing military fatigues blew himself up near a checkpoint at the entrance to northern Mali's largest city, wounding one soldier in the second attack to hit the same location since Friday, residents and officials said Sunday.

POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) — Assailants in northeastern Nigeria killed three South Korean doctors, beheading one of the physicians, in the latest attack on health workers in a nation under assault by a radical Islamic sect, officials said Sunday.

ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal (AP) — A Senegalese official says a woman and her son were killed by a landmine Saturday in the southern Casamance region near the Gambian border.

GAO, Mali (AP) — Malian soldiers are fighting jihadists in their desert hideouts just outside Gao, the country's defense minister said Saturday, a day after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint on the city's outskirts.

TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) — The bodies are buried here, in the side of a dune less than a mile outside this desert capital, dumped out of sight in a forgotten and uninhabited zone.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Hundreds of mourners have gathered in South Africa for the funeral of a 17-year-old girl whose brutal rape has sparked national outrage.

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Police in Zambia have arrested and charged a 74-year-old farmer for allegedly causing a bus crash that killed 53 people north of the nation's capital, authorities said Saturday.

GAO, Mali (AP) — Two men with explosives were arrested trying to enter the city of Gao on Saturday, the Malian military said, a day after a suicide bomber blew himself up in an attack that has fueled fears of a militant insurgency in northern Mali.

GAO, Mali (AP) — A Malian military spokesman says soldiers arrested two men who tried to blow themselves up on the outskirts of Gao.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal officially launched its tribunal investigating former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre for alleged crimes against humanity on Friday, a move rights groups called a decisive turning point in the campaign to bring him to justice.