Year: 2013

Car bomb blasts buildings in Benghazi

A car bomb detonated in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Saturday, causing material damage but no…

Kenya: Outcry as rape suspects ordered to mow grass

Outraged Kenyans are demanding justice for a teenage girl who was allegedly gang-raped, dumped in a sewage ditch,…

Blatter’s African call fuels re-election speculation

Is Sepp Blatter angling for another term as head of world football? The FIFA president had vowed this…

Search on for U.S. mariners seized off Nigeria coast

The Nigerian navy has yet to find two U.S. citizens kidnapped from an oilfield supply ship attacked this…

Nigeria: 70 Boko Haram members killed

More than 70 members of the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram have been killed during a Nigerian military…

Did ‘White Widow’ spy on Kenya?

The manager of a Nairobi apartment complex speaks about former tenant and terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite, dubbed the…

Putting African art on the map

A new video project is giving a voice to Ghana's best artists, and hopes to change attitudes to…

Dar es Salaam by dala dala

The Tanzanian capital's hordes of tooting, rattling buses provide a fascinating, if somewhat uncomfortable, way to see its…

2 seized in vessel attack off Nigeria, U.S. official says

A vessel was recently attacked off the coast of Nigeria, and the captain and chief engineer -- believed…

8 incredible African photographers

African photographers are giving voice to their own experiences like never before. Here are eight of the continent's…

Kenya mall video fuels looting claims

A month after an attack on Kenya's Westgate Mall claimed at least 67 lives, leaked video footage from…

Clashes in Tunisia, 8 dead

Six Tunisian national guard officers and two militants were killed Wednesday in clashes between government forces and an…

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