Militants storm UN compound in Somalia; 20 killed 
Updated: Jun-19-13 5:32 pm
- Military: Thurayas banned in northeast Nigeria
Updated: Jun-19-13 12:08 pm
- Top Charles Taylor ally found in Sierra Leone
Updated: Jun-19-13 2:09 pm
- Zimbabwe's president goes back to court on polls
Updated: Jun-19-13 8:11 am
- Armed robbers kill 48 in northwest Nigeria
Updated: Jun-19-13 8:00 am
- Mali and Tuareg rebels sign accord
Updated: Jun-18-13 3:43 pm
- Report: Piracy in West Africa outstrips Somalia
Updated: Jun-18-13 1:43 pm
- Egypt, Ethiopia agree to talks about Nile dam
Updated: Jun-18-13 12:20 pm
- 6 killed in Mozambique clashes
Updated: Jun-18-13 10:15 am
- Zimbabwe 'Cattle Bank' takes deposits that moo
Updated: Jun-18-13 9:01 am
- Al-Jazeera crew detained in Niger is released
Updated: Jun-17-13 6:04 pm
- 16 Rwandan students seek asylum in Uganda over M23
Updated: Jun-17-13 1:49 pm
- Kenya police kill 2 labeled as terror suspects
Updated: Jun-17-13 11:58 am
- Hundreds protest ICC delay for I. Coast's Gbagbo
Updated: Jun-17-13 11:44 am
- Mandela's wife thanks world for 'love, generosity'
Updated: Jun-17-13 11:34 am
- Mandela praise singer recalls travels with him
Updated: Jun-17-13 10:26 am
- Zimbabwe electoral body seeks end to media bias
Updated: Jun-17-13 7:41 am
- In Uganda, forlorn square is symbol of crackdown
Updated: Jun-16-13 8:55 am
- Regional leaders urge Zimbabwe poll delay
Updated: Jun-15-13 5:55 pm
- AP PHOTOS:Tanzania albinos hope for more govt help
Updated: Jun-15-13 11:43 am
- Tanzania's albinos hope govt will offer more help
Updated: Jun-15-13 9:32 am
- Report: Sudan, South Sudan keep troops near border
Updated: Jun-14-13 11:49 am
- Feathers, bottle tops mark Malawi Fashion Week
Updated: Jun-14-13 11:39 am
- Congo M23 rebels: Govt has broken off talks
Updated: Jun-14-13 11:26 am
- Kenya, Somalia in dispute over violent port city
Updated: Jun-14-13 11:13 am
- IMF returns to economically troubled Zimbabwe
Updated: Jun-14-13 7:34 am
- Zimbabwe president says elections set for July 31
Updated: Jun-13-13 10:52 am
- Ethiopia ratifies Nile accord opposed by Egypt
Updated: Jun-13-13 6:57 am
- Main Tuareg rebel group says ready to sign accord
Updated: Jun-12-13 1:17 pm
- Official: Niger security forces repelled attackers
Updated: Jun-12-13 12:22 pm
- Congo's government suspends provincial assembly
Updated: Jun-12-13 11:55 am
- Kenyan legislators agree to lower pay after outcry
Updated: Jun-12-13 11:26 am
- Ethiopia: Nothing will stop Nile dam project
Updated: Jun-12-13 10:40 am
- South Africa disciplines 93 soldiers on UN mission
Updated: Jun-12-13 8:58 am
- In South Africa, talk of Mandela's mortality
Updated: Jun-11-13 4:06 pm
- Chevron to auction rights to 2 Nigeria oil blocks
Updated: Jun-11-13 2:03 pm
- In Uganda, Congo's M23 rebels eager to negotiate
Updated: Jun-11-13 9:02 am
- South Sudan urges Sudan to keep security pact
Updated: Jun-10-13 3:49 pm
- Zimbabwe top rights lawyer's trial begins
Updated: Jun-10-13 2:48 pm
- Gbagbo-allied youth leader arrested in Ivory Coast
Updated: Jun-10-13 2:10 pm
- Guinea's opposition may agree to election
Updated: Jun-10-13 9:32 am
- Mauritanian killed in accident with US officer
Updated: Jun-08-13 12:47 pm
- Africa hopes to speed up medicine approval systems
Updated: Jun-08-13 12:16 pm
- Togo schedules parliamentary elections
Updated: Jun-08-13 8:34 am
- In South Africa, toilet talk turns political
Updated: Jun-07-13 12:37 pm
- Somali militants execute 2 for espionage: witness
Updated: Jun-07-13 5:52 am
- Correction: Ethiopia-Nile Dam story
Updated: Jun-07-13 4:37 am
- Specifics elusive in Nigeria's extremist fight
Updated: Jun-06-13 4:44 pm
- Over 100 Chinese miners arrested in Ghana
Updated: Jun-06-13 12:09 pm
- Challenges at frontline of Nigeria extremist fight
Updated: Jun-05-13 9:22 pm
- Malian army takes Anefis, 1st territorial gain
Updated: Jun-05-13 6:41 pm
- Poaching problem: Number of elephant orphans rises
Updated: Jun-05-13 12:51 pm
- Uganda's long-time ruler changes tune on longevity
Updated: Jun-05-13 12:22 pm
- After Liberia massacre, a neglected mass grave
Updated: Jun-05-13 4:17 am
- AP Interview: Mali wants its army in Kidal
Updated: Jun-04-13 1:22 pm
- Suicide bomber blows himself up in Mali's Kidal
Updated: Jun-04-13 8:26 am
- Report: $750 million missing in Angola-Russia deal
Updated: Jun-04-13 8:08 am
- Tuareg rebels accused of expelling black residents
Updated: Jun-03-13 1:31 pm
- African warlord Kony poaching elephants to survive
Updated: Jun-03-13 9:46 am
- SAfrican mine shooting kills 1 in union rivalry
Updated: Jun-03-13 9:25 am
- 22 prisoners escaped in Niger prison attack
Updated: Jun-03-13 8:31 am
- US transfers prisoner to Mauritania
Updated: Jun-02-13 3:29 pm
- Official: Dam will not significantly affect Egypt
Updated: Jun-02-13 2:13 pm
- Ethiopia: Thousands protest political repression
Updated: Jun-02-13 2:07 pm
- US denies Mauritania got 2 Guantanamo prisoners
Updated: Jun-01-13 2:04 pm
- Drone crashes in Somalia's Puntland region
Updated: Jun-01-13 1:29 pm
- Gunmen attack central prison in Niger's capital
Updated: Jun-01-13 1:22 pm
- In Somalia, some parents say no to polio vaccine
Updated: Jun-01-13 11:37 am
- Republic of Congo passes anti-smoking law
Updated: May-31-13 1:56 pm
- C. African Republic: Arrest warrant for ex-prez
Updated: May-31-13 1:51 pm
- More than 23K refugees flee South Sudan conflict
Updated: May-31-13 12:59 pm
- South African enclave raises old race questions
Updated: May-31-13 12:28 pm
- Divers recover 10 bodies from Nigeria ship sinking
Updated: May-31-13 10:10 am
- Nigeria lawmakers pass anti-gay marriage bill
Updated: May-30-13 4:21 pm
- Fear in Egypt as Ethiopia builds giant dam on Nile
Updated: May-30-13 2:56 pm
- Mali youth hold 1st protest against French
Updated: May-30-13 2:22 pm
- Lawyer: UK envoys sought suspect release in Kenya
Updated: May-30-13 12:49 pm
- Danny Glover joins protest in South Africa
Updated: May-30-13 10:38 am
- Ugandan police end seizure of daily after 10 days
Updated: May-30-13 9:54 am
- South Africa warns of attacks on immigrants
Updated: May-30-13 8:43 am
- UN charges that Congo's M23 rebels fired on Goma
Updated: May-29-13 12:16 pm
- Kenya police accused of abusing Somali refugees
Updated: May-29-13 10:41 am
- 41 C. African Republic child soldiers released
Updated: May-29-13 8:43 am
- Ethiopia diverts Nile flow, Egypt says no impact
Updated: May-28-13 4:07 pm
- Kenyan legislators vote to increase their own pay
Updated: May-28-13 3:01 pm
- Ethiopia diverts flow of Blue Nile, fears in Egypt
Updated: May-28-13 2:01 pm
- South Sudan criticizes Sudan president for threats
Updated: May-28-13 1:47 pm
- AP PHOTOS: South Africa: children learn by playing
Updated: May-28-13 1:01 pm
- SAfrica: Mandela daughter talks about her father
Updated: May-28-13 11:25 am
- 12 sailors missing when vessel sinks off Nigeria
Updated: May-28-13 11:06 am
- Fuel tanker reportedly hijacked off Nigeria coast
Updated: May-28-13 11:06 am
- Watchdog: Most timber exported from Ghana illegal
Updated: May-28-13 10:52 am
- Ivory Coast lashes out at US State Dep't report
Updated: May-28-13 8:11 am
- African leaders urge ICC to transfer charges
Updated: May-27-13 3:17 pm
- South Africa: Soweto resident shows off her snakes
Updated: May-27-13 1:40 pm
- Zimbabwe honors deputy intelligence chief
Updated: May-27-13 1:37 pm
- C.African Republic rebels attack villages, kill 25
Updated: May-27-13 12:16 pm
- FACT CHECK: Kerry dishes some iffy claims abroad
Updated: May-27-13 3:13 am
- Kenya police kill terrorist linked to al-Shabab
Updated: May-26-13 2:30 pm
- Ivory Coast techies elect new 'Web Mayor'
Updated: May-26-13 1:22 pm
- Militants kill 6 in attack on Kenyan police posts
Updated: May-26-13 11:29 am
- Burkina Faso soldiers in Mali worry about defense
Updated: May-26-13 10:05 am
- Guinea clashes killed at least 11, hospital says
Updated: May-26-13 7:19 am
- Ethiopian marathon runner honors Boston victims
Updated: May-26-13 7:02 am
- Kerry makes 1st official sub-Saharan Africa trip
Updated: May-25-13 4:08 pm
- In Ethiopia, African Union celebrates 50 years
Updated: May-25-13 9:37 am
- Kenya's mental hospital drugs, confines patients
Updated: May-24-13 11:31 am
- Zimbabwe activist: Prisoners denied AIDS drugs
Updated: May-24-13 10:21 am
- Correction: Mozambique-UN story
Updated: May-24-13 8:26 am
- Writer Chinua Achebe honored in Nigeria funeral
Updated: May-23-13 6:58 pm
- S. Sudan leader: Int'l court 'humiliates' Africa
Updated: May-23-13 1:34 pm
- Violence in Somalia scares investors, aid workers
Updated: May-23-13 11:40 am
- Togo police fire tear gas at protesters
Updated: May-23-13 11:25 am
- Opposition in Burkina Faso vow to fight Senate law
Updated: May-22-13 1:55 pm
- 'Boom Town Baby': African stock markets see gains
Updated: May-22-13 1:25 pm
- Kenya's truth report: Killings, land grabs, graft
Updated: May-22-13 11:55 am
- Polio cases found in Kenya and Somalia, WHO says
Updated: May-22-13 11:46 am
- Malawi finds buyer for presidential jet
Updated: May-22-13 10:52 am
- Zimbabwe's president signs new constitution
Updated: May-22-13 8:50 am
- Ethiopian corruption watchdog arrests 51 suspects
Updated: May-22-13 8:42 am
- Thousands of women protest death in Togo
Updated: May-21-13 1:53 pm
- China vice-premier arrives in Zimbabwe
Updated: May-21-13 12:43 pm
- Fighting for 2nd day between army, rebels in Congo
Updated: May-21-13 12:38 pm
- South Africa: Winnie Mandela forced auction flops
Updated: May-21-13 12:38 pm
- Court frees man in murder that shocked SAfricans
Updated: May-21-13 12:34 pm
- Rebels in C. African Republic protest conditions
Updated: May-21-13 12:25 pm
- Cholera outbreak hits Malian refugee camp in Niger
Updated: May-21-13 10:55 am
- South Africa: Mandela name pulled into politics
Updated: May-20-13 1:41 pm
- Talks to resume with Mali government, Tuaregs
Updated: May-20-13 12:26 pm
- 51 die in 2 South Sudan clashes; army retakes town
Updated: May-20-13 9:05 am
