Africa Breaking News

Nigerian Witnesses Link Militants to At Least 33 More Killings in Northeast

AU: CAR Anti-Balaka Leader Not Arrested

Spokesman says Congolese authorities arrested different man with same name as Patrick Edouard Ngaissona

Somalia Car Bomb Kills 12

Militant group al-Shabab claims responsibility, saying it was targeting security forces

Car Bomb Kills 7 in Somali Capital

The militant group al-Shabab lost control of Mogadishu in 2011, but has carried out periodic attacks in the city

Nigerian Military: Phones Not Working At Time of School Attack

Kerry Compares Ugandan Anti-Gay Law to Nazism, Apartheid

US secretary of state calls new law 'atrocious' and 'flat out morally wrong'

Nigerian Military: Phones Not Working At Time of School Attack

Denmark, Norway Reduce Uganda Aid Over Anti-Gay Law

Denmark to redirect $9.1 million intended for government to private sector; Norway to withhold $8.2 million

Nigeria: Phones Down at Time of Deadly School Attack

A spokesman for the Nigerian Joint Task Force says there were soldiers stationed near the Federal Government College Buni Yadi but nobody could reach them because phones were not working

MSF Reports 'Disturbing' Attacks on S. Sudan Hospitals

Doctors Without Borders said its teams found at least 14 dead bodies at a hospital in Malakal; Evidence indicated at least some patients were shot in their beds

Militants Kill Students at Nigerian School