Al-Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked militant group based in Somalia, claimed responsibility for the deadly attack at Kenyan mall on Saturday. Here is a Q and A:
At least 15 Libyan soldiers were killed and five wounded in an attack on a military post Saturday on a road between Bani Walid and Tarhuna, state media reported.
Clashes erupted between supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsy and Egyptian security forces and residents in several areas in Cairo, state media reported.
A plane crashed in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday morning, killing at least 14 people, authorities said.
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Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius has hired an American forensics team in his murder trial.
We're not done yet. That was the message that terrorists of al-Shabaab gave to Kenya Wednesday.
Fresh demonstrations against the government took place in Sudan on Tuesday, despite the use of teargas on protesters a day earlier.
I can't get the image of the bodies lying near the freezer at Westgate out of my mind, and recognizing two of the victims, their bodies splayed, their blood splashed against the stark white floor.
A group of Kenyan lawmakers Monday visited the mall where dozens were killed in a terrorist attack this month.
Kenyan intelligence warned before the Nairobi mall attack that the terrorist group al-Shabaab posed a threat to several targets, including the mall.
Under the cover of darkness, gunmen approached a college dormitory in a rural Nigerian town and opened fire on students who were sleeping.
An additional suspect was arrested Sunday in connection with this month's terrorist attack at a mall in Kenya's capital, the country's interior minister said.
Nigerian authorities on Saturday were looking for survivors after a boat carrying traders capsized, killing at least 42, an emergency agency official said.
Twenty men are engaged in fiery debate on a sidewalk near Nairobi's Westgate mall, where terrorists stormed the shopping center and killed at least 67 people.
Clashes in Sudan between protesters and police about rising gasoline prices have left dozens dead, according to protest groups and the Sudanese government.
Al-Shabaab terrorists or their supporters rented a store in Nairobi's Westgate Mall nearly a year last week's terror attack, a Kenyan intelligence source says.
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Interpol said Thursday it issued a "red notice" for Samantha Lewthwaite, the so-called "White Widow," at the request of Kenyan authorities, but the international police agency added that the notice dealt with a 2011 incident.
Kenyan counterterrorism source: A man is being held at a Kenyan military hospital on suspicion of being among the Nairobi mall attackers.
More U.S. Marines are fortifying security at the American Embassy in Nairobi following the deadly shopping mall attack there, CNN has learned.
Propped up by strangers, a woman wails outside Nairobi's main city morgue, unable to control her grief.
An international court in the Netherlands ruled Thursday to uphold the conviction and 50-year sentence handed down to Liberia's former president, Charles Taylor.
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Is British-born Samantha Lewthwaite "the White Widow" suspected of taking part in terrorism, and did the White Widow take part in the recent attack in Kenya?
More than 80 elephants in Zimbabwe have been poisoned with cyanide -- the latest victims of poachers keen to feed soaring global demand for ivory.
Details are emerging that paint an ever clearer picture of the horror and drama that transpired over the four days that a Nairobi, Kenya, mall was under siege.
Civic unrest over a spike in gas prices roiled Sudan for a fourth straight day Wednesday, with gunshots ringing out as government forces tried to clamp down.
After four days of bloody mayhem, Kenyan security forces defeated terrorists who had besieged Nairobi's Westgate Shopping Mall, President Uhuru Kenyatta said.
Timeline of a military standoff with Islamic terrorists at a Kenyan mall. Four days of carnage have left 61 civilians and six security officers dead.
A safe distance from Nairobi's Westgate Mall, several Kenyans stare through a stand of trees at the site of one of the nation's worst terrorist attacks.
Al-Shabaab leader Mukhtar Abu Zubayr planned the most devastating terror attack in Kenya since the U.S. Embassy bombing in 1998. He's now eyeing Western targets.
The militants carrying out a terrorist attack at a mall in Kenya include American teenagers, the Kenyan government says.
Night fell Monday in Nairobi with no clear resolution of the standoff between Kenyan forces and terrorists at Westgate Shopping Mall.
An Egyptian court Monday ordered a ban on activities of the Muslim Brotherhood and froze its finances, according to state-run news website EgyNews.
Al-Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked militant group based in Somalia, claimed responsibility for the deadly attack at Kenyan mall on Saturday. Here is a Q and A:
The carnage began early in the afternoon on Saturday at Nairobi's Westgate Shopping Mall, with gunshots shattering the calm of a popular weekend meeting spot.
For shoppers at an upscale shopping mall in Kenya, not seeing their attackers was itself part of the terror.
Gunmen attacked an upscale shopping mall in the Kenyan capital on Saturday, leading to a fierce gunbattle with police and leaving at least 39 people dead.
Pumeza Matshikiza grew up in the townships of Cape Town, South Africa, during Apartheid. Now she's an international opera singer.
At least 59 people are dead after gunmen stormed a Kenyan mall on Saturday. On Sunday, about 30 hostages remained, sources say.
Reaction to a brazen attack at Nairobi's Westgate Mall that left dozens dead on Saturday from around the world, with leaders condemning the killings in Kenya
Ivory Coast says it will not transfer former first lady Simone Gbagbo to the International Criminal Court, and plans to try her in a domestic court instead.
From Maasai warriors teaching yoga to their communities, to classes held in orphanages in city slums, Kenya is embracing yoga.
South African police lied about last year's Marikana miners' strike in which police fired on thousands of workers, an investigating commission said Thursday.
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Kenya's elephants are threatened by poachers who are better armed, and better organized than ever.
A 30km wall of 300,000 trees is being planted around Nairobi National Park to protect its wildlife from human encroachment into the park.
Zimbabwe's main opposition boycotted the ceremony for a new parliamentary session, during which President Robert Mugabe appealed to the West to lift sanctions.
Inadequate security and an unprepared military allowed Islamists to attack and take hostages at a gas field in Algeria in January, a report says.
Six Egyptian soldiers were killed after explosions near a military intelligence building in the Sinai peninsula town of Rafah on Wednesday, state news agency Egynews reported.
Amnesty International is calling on Zambia to release two men arrested for homosexual conduct
Call it a watershed moment for Kenya. Scientists found massive underground water supplies in the arid northern region.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe said Wednesday he will not abandon his controversial policy of seizing the majority stake of foreign-owned firms.
The one-eyed jihadist commander known as "Mr. Marlboro" is back in action in Africa.
A powerful blast in Benghazi Wednesday damaged a Foreign Ministry building and a branch of the Central Bank of Libya, an eyewitness said.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe announced Tuesday a 26-member Cabinet mainly composed of allies from his previous appointments.
After years of setbacks and controversies, Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto and radio personality Joshua arap Sang went on trial Tuesday at the ICC.
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An armed group that operates in Gaza has claimed responsibility for last week's car bombing in Cairo that apparently targeted Egypt's interior minister.
A pair of bomb blasts in Mogadishu Saturday killed at least 20 people, most of them civilians, police said.
Ghana's Supreme Court declares President John Dramani Mahama "validly elected" as the court dismissed all challenges to the West African nation's 2012 elections.
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At least 49 inmates broke out of a prison in Tunisia on Sunday night, the country's state-run Tunis Afrique Presse reported.
Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy will stand trial for incitement to conduct murder and "thuggery," state-run MENA reported Sunday.
Nelson Mandela has been discharged from the Pretoria hospital where he had been receiving treatment since June, the South African president's office said Sunday.
The South African president's office said Saturday that Nelson Mandela remains hospitalized, contradicting earlier reports that he had returned home.
Three people were killed and 60 others were injured in clashes amid protests in Egypt on Friday, Egyptian state TV reported, citing the health ministry.
Brightly colored fishing boats from Senegal are getting a new lease of life, being reborn as beautiful furniture.
Egyptian security forces arrested a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader on suspicion of inciting violence after last month's ouster of then-President Mohamed Morsy, state-run media reported Thursday.
At least 37 people were killed following a bus crash west of Nairobi, Kenya, police said Thursday.
The famously easy-going people of Ghana are on edge, awaiting Thursday's decision on an election challenge.
In Somalia, travel can be perilous business. So why are so many airlines launching routes to Mogadishu?
Here's a look at the life of Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympic sprinter from South Africa.
Here's a look at the life of Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak, left prison Thursday for a military hospital where he'll be under house arrest, state-run media outlet Al-Ahram said.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was sworn in for another term Thursday following disputed elections.
Zimbabwe presidential challenger Morgan Tsvangirai ends a court case contesting the re-election of incumbent Robert Mugabe.
The man who held Egypt in an autocratic grip for three decades is apparently soon going free. The man who replaced him in the nation's first democratic election is now the military's prisoner.
First banned for containing 'child pornography,' then unbanned on appeal, South African serial killer movie 'Of Good Report' is making waves.
Four State Department employees put leave after the Benghazi attack will be reassigned inside the department.
Oscar Pistorius will go on trial on March 3, accused of premeditated murder in the death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is expected to appear in court next week following the completion of the investigation into the killing of his girlfriend
A grenade exploded outside the Egyptian Consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Saturday evening, Libyan state media reported.
Scores of child soldiers, some of them as young as eight years old, have been rescued from an armed group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the U.N. mission in the African nation said.
The head of the Lonmin mining company apologized Friday to the families of the striking miners killed in South Africa a year ago today.
The Nigerian military said Thursday it killed one of the leaders of the Islamist extremist group, Boko Haram, which has waged an insurgency in the nation for years.
Marikana lies on South Africa's platinum belt, where the world's richest deposits of the metal are located. Together with Russia, South Africa produces 90% of the world's platinum demand. The people of Marikana know the land is mineral rich, and last year they demanded a taste of that wealth.
Somali authorities said Thursday they are investigating the alleged rape of Somali woman by soldiers belonging to an African Union peacekeeping force.
They're a musical sensation, but when they're not singing onstage, the Malawi Mouse Boys earn a living selling roasted mouse kebabs.
Doctors Without Borders is pulling out of Somalia after more than two decades because of frequent attacks on its staff, the aid group said Wednesday.
Cameroon's President Paul Biya has ordered the closure of nearly 100 Christian churches in key cities, citing criminal practices organized by Pentecostal pastors that threaten the security of the West African nation.
Egyptian security forces stormed two sit-ins orchestrated by supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsy early Wednesday, bulldozing tents and escorting away hundreds of protesters, CNN correspondents say.
After fleeing Mali at 19 to pursue her dream, singer Fatoumata Diawara returned to her country to help bring hope during a time of crisis.
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