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Civilian casualties mount in Mogadishu
When Mohamed Ali Dahir, a 21-year-old business administration student, used to board the bus to school, he wasn't worried about being...
For Somali refugees, the road leads from one misery to another
He buried his children and fled west across the border to a new country.
Staff Benda Bilili's Congolese rhythms hit global scale
In the long history of music, there have been improbable success stories. But even in such company, as a drunk man in the French documentary...
Malta guards Europe's gates against African immigrants
When the 24-year-old Somali chemistry teacher saw the airplane overhead, he prayed that his nightmare journey was finally over. &#...
Bombs kill 8 as Nigeria celebrates independence
— Eight people were killed and three were injured Friday in car bombings that hit Nigeria's capital near a parade marking the 50th...
Egyptian tycoon sentenced to prison in pop diva's death
In a murder case many Egyptians regarded as a test of whether the wealthy here can escape justice, a court on Tuesday sentenced a...
Obama seeks accountability on foreign aid
President Obama unveiled to world leaders Wednesday a new plan for distributing U.S. aid to struggling nations, promising to "change the way...
Former South Africa mugger's life took shape in prison
Sydney Cindi used to hang around banks, knife concealed, his concentration on the one thing he wanted: money.
Somali prime minister resigns in leadership dispute
Following months of political bickering in a country battling a relentless Islamic insurgency, Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali...
South Sudan independence vote stokes concerns
Sudan is less than four months away from a vote that is expected to break it into two countries, a move that could spark another civil war...
U.N. Millennium Development Goals appear out of reach in Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa will not reduce poverty and hunger and improve child and maternal healthcare to meet the goals set a decade ago by the...
On the Nile, Egypt cuts water use as Ethiopia dams for power
On the sloping western shores of Lake Tana in central Ethiopia, where villagers gape at new tractors as if they were Ferraris and power...
Those South African soccer grannies sure are on the move
It's amazing the new things you can begin to do in your seventh decade. Or your eighth.
Somali militant group claims responsibility for Uganda blasts
A powerful Al Qaeda-affiliated militant faction in Somalia claimed responsibility Monday for two bomb attacks in Uganda's capital that...
Egyptian group wants to censor Arabic classic
Let the ancient temptress beware, censors with sharp pens beckon.
South Africa the nation is the big World Cup winner
They would never finish the stadiums on time. Transportation would be a fiasco. Tourists who weren't shot, stabbed or killed in car crashes...
South African creates dance for World Cup
The dance begins easily enough, with a knock-kneed jump. Then a series of soccer kicks, a sideways prance, a thrusting pump, a backward kick...
The Rev. Nico Smith dies at 81; white South African pastor who fought apartheid
The Rev. Nico Smith, a white pastor who challenged South Africa's apartheid system by moving with his wife into a black township in the...
