Female genital mutilation in Egypt

For millions of schoolgirls in Egypt, summer can be a terrifying time -- it's the start of the female genital mutilation season.

Clooney: Sanctions not enough in South Sudan

Meet Muslims who celebrate faith with dreadlocks

The startup harder to get into than Harvard

Child bomber kills 10 in Nigeria market

A suicide bomber, believed to be about 12, blew herself up in a market in northeast Nigeria's insurgency-plagued Yobe state, residents and medics said.

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Rwanda spy chief held over alleged war crimes

UK officials arrested Rwandan intelligence chief Emmanuel Karenzi Karake at London's Heathrow Airport in "connection with war crimes" in a move that has outraged Rwandan government officials.

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The next place to feel the housing crisis

Meet the entrepreneurs transforming Africa

Uganda’s Tarantino makes $200 action movies

Al Shabaab claims suicide attack

A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into the entrance of a Somali intelligence training center Sunday, a government official said.

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U.S. crushes more than a ton of ivory

The message was crushingly loud and clear: Stop the illicit ivory trade.

Stowaway dead after falling from plane

A stowaway on a British Airways jet was found dead after falling on a roof as the plane approached London Heathrow Airport, authorities said Friday.