South African President Jacob Zuma has called on his country's citizens to honor Mandela this year by cleaning up their surroundings
Suspected Boko Haram militants have kidnapped a German development worker in Nigeria and two children of a Muslim cleric in Cameroon
So far this year, the Italian Navy has rescued 60,000 migrants - far more than the 42,000 in all of 2013
Meeting in Algiers aims to hash out final peace arrangement a year after returning to democracy
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
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