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Nigerians on Friday marked three years since the mass abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls by Boko Haram extremists amid anger that government efforts to negotiate their freedom appear to have stalled. Activists were rallying in the capital, Abuja, and commercial hub Lagos to urge...

Nigeria’s government says negotiations with Boko Haram continue for the release of the remaining Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped three years ago by the extremist group, shocking the world. The government “has gone quite far with negotiations,” Vice...

A Tanzanian court on Wednesday approved the extradition to the United States the alleged leader of a global drug trafficking ring who was arrested after a two-year manhunt. The court in Dar es Salaam approved the Tanzanian government’s plan to extradite Ali Khatib Haji...

Amnesty International says Botswana was the only country in southern African to execute a criminal last year. The rights group, which opposes the death penalty, said in a global report Tuesday that the single execution in Botswana was the country’s first since 2013. Patrick...

Niger’s Ministry of Defense says security forces killed at least 57 Boko Haram Islamic extremists who had attacked a village in the eastern Diffa region overnight. The ministry said Monday that 15 soldiers and two civilians were wounded in fighting with the extremists in...

The brief hijacking of a Lebanese-registered ship has drawn attention to the resurgence of piracy off the coast of Somalia, after five years of inactivity. Pirates boarded the OS 35, a cargo ship, Saturday evening but then abandoned it Sunday before naval forces rescued the ship,...

United Nations satellite images obtained by The Associated Press show at least 18,000 structures have been destroyed in the Yei area of South Sudan. It is one of the most significant caches of evidence of widespread destruction in the country’s civil war. The Yei region has...

The party of Gambia’s new president won a comfortable majority of seats in parliament after two decades of domination by the party of former leader Yahya Jammeh, the Independent Electoral Commission announced Friday. President Adama Barrow’s United Democratic Party...

The U.S. government is asking citizens residing in or traveling to Kenya to be alert to the security situation around general elections in August and the campaign period this month. Kenya has a history of electoral violence. Fighting that followed the 2007 flawed presidential...

A judge in Mali has charged four people in the kidnapping of a Colombian nun in February. Prosecutor General Boubacar Sidiki Samake said Wednesday that four Malians were arrested Tuesday as part of investigations into the abduction of Gloria Cecilia Narvaez Argoti. Armed gunmen...