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African billionaires: big money on a poor continentAfrican billionaires now number 55, including Nigeria's Folorunsho Alakija, the world's wealthiest black woman, says business magazine.聽
Britain's shadowy 'White Widow' linked to SEAL team target in SomaliaSamantha Lewthwaite is fingered as an insider in an Al Shabab cell thought to be encouraging international jihad and with Al Qaeda links.聽
Keep away from schools or we'll kill you: Amnesty on Boko HaramDays after some 40 college students were killed at night in northern Nigeria, Amnesty International has issued a new report on Boko Haram.
Failed Navy SEALs raid on Somali target could bolster Al ShababPast US strikes on Al Shabab leaders, even successful ones, have not diminished the group.
Kenya's Westgate mall siege: Ghanaians mourn poet Kofi AwoonorThe only Ghanaian killed in Kenya鈥檚 Westgate mall was a poet, statesman, and professor who crafted a distinctive way to write about the world.
Kenya: A week after Westgate mayhem ends, Al Shabab is gloatingSome 39 hostages are still not accounted for out of the Westgate mall siege in Nairobi. Nor are the identities of the attackers, claimed to be Al Shabab, known.
Is barbaric Boko Haram winning in Nigeria's north country?Radicals have killed schoolchildren, fellow Muslims, college students, and drivers on the road in the past four months. What is Nigeria's strategy now?聽
Despite Nigeria's crackdown, Boko Haram continues its killing waysThe radical Islamists of Boko Haram appear to have killed 40 students asleep at a college in Yobe on Sunday. Is Nigeria's get-tough approach working?聽
FocusAfrica desert helps breed radicals, from Al Shabab to Boko Haram to Mr. Marlboro'Sahelistan' is what the French foreign minister calls the sub-Saharan zone of Sahel. Al Qaeda-linked groups from places like Mail and Nigeria have been driven into hiding there and hit Western targets. The zone may become a 'breeding ground' for terrorists, says the UN Security Council. 聽
South African gold miners reach landmark settlementA settlement reached with Anglo American could open the door to thousands of other cases against mining companies.
After Westgate massacre, Somali militants hit Kenyan border townsAs attacks kill three Kenyan police, calls rise in Nairobi to battle terror in a more systematic way. No formal command structure existed to deal with the Westgate mall siege, experts say.
Can Kenya's president use Westgate tragedy to avoid ICC trial?President Uhuru Kenyatta wants to delay or alter his International Criminal Court trial for crimes against humanity, set for November.
Kenya info blackout? Extraordinary lack of detail about Westgate siege.How many really died? Why no mugshots of militants? Where are the hostages? Why no blow-by-blow? Why no clear information from Kenyatta?
Kenya mall attack a 'brutal wake-up call' for expats in East AfricaYet for many foreigners in Nairobi there is already a sense that the city will bounce back.
Ferocity of mall attack stuns KenyansIslamist terrorists were still holding dozens of hostages Sunday in Nairobi's upscale Westgate mall. The attack is the worst Kenya has confronted since 1998.- Sand dams: Simple way to save water in Africa takes holdThe technology is in use from Brazil to Thailand. But in recent years, more than 1,000 rivers in East Africa have stored water even in the dry season.聽
Why terrorists struck at upscale Kenyan mallThe Somali terrorist group Al Shabab has said the attack, which killed at least 39 people, is in retribution for Kenyan troops' presence in Somalia.聽
South Africa massacre inquiry heightens distrust of policeA year after the country was shocked by miners killed in strikes at the Marikana platinum mine, the official inquiry is postponed.聽
In Ethiopia, more land grabs, more indigenous people pushed outA journalist's visit to South Omo, where rights groups say police have raped women and otherwise pressured locals to leave an area tagged to become a huge sugar plantation, was quickly curtailed by authorities.
Can Kenya's leaders skip part of their international crimes trials?Five East African nations want the International Criminal Court to allow Kenya's VP to miss some of his court dates in order to fulfill governing duties.