Pakistani teenage activist, meeting with parents of kidnapped girls, says she hopes her presence will place more pressure on government to bring girls home
Women, girls kidnapped in mid-June escaped from their presumed Boko Haram captors, but hundreds of other girls kidnapped in April remain missing
She finished her three-nation tour in Sierra Leone, where she praised President Ernest Bai Koroma as a supporter of women's rights
Mohammed Dionne said Sunday after meeting with the president that he has been given a roadmap that calls for quickly getting to work
467 people have now died from Ebola in West Africa this year
Pistorius's trial was on hold for a month while he underwent evaluations by a team of psychiatrists and a psychologist
Islamists killed at least 10 people in an attack on village less than 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Chibok, the scene of mass abduction of more than 200 school girls in April, survivors say
Increased inter-African trade and prudent economic policies credited
Barely 13 percent of voters go to polls by noon to elect new parliament that officials hope will help restore order three years after fall of Moammar Gadhafi
Eight people were killed and 20 injured by bomb that tore through grounds of School of Hygiene Monday in Kano
The US cut funding to Uganda and canceled a regional military exercise in response to a new law criminalizing homosexuality
Militant group al-Shabab claims responsibility for attacks that killed more than 60 people in Mpeketon and Mporomoko, though Kenyatta says some politicians are preaching incitement, division
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