Administration emails raise new questions on Libya attack

WASHINGTON — Email traffic exchanged during the drafting of talking points about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound...

How life (and death) change Egyptian soccer and its American coach

Bob Bradley wasn't looking for an adventure as much as he was looking for a job after being fired as coach of the U.S. soccer team two years...

Envoy describes night of Benghazi attack

WASHINGTON — Minutes after Greg Hicks learned that the perimeter of the U.S. mission in Benghazi had been breached by men with guns,...

Republicans say military could have done more in Benghazi

WASHINGTON — The latest chapter in the political battle over the killing of four Americans in Libya is unfolding this week, with...

Uganda priest ostracized for publicizing sexual abuse

KAMPALA, Uganda — He is a celebrity across eastern and central Africa, a gospel music star known to many as the "Dancing Priest."...

U.S. policy seen as factor in Somalia famine deaths

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — It was the catastrophe everyone knew was coming yet no one seemed able to stop.

Les Rois Hotel on Egypt's Red Sea is alcohol-free

CAIRO — Hold the martini, please.

Uganda widow wins compensation after fight

KASANA, Uganda — When Joyce Birabwa's husband was killed in a suicide bomb attack in Mogadishu, 1,000 miles away, her whole world fell...

Desperate migrants meet with misery in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula

Egypt president sees 'deep state' as enemy within

CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi casts himself as a leader navigating a landscape bristling with conspiracies by...

Timbuktu calligrapher keeps ancient knowledge alive

Nigeria officials disagree on death toll in recent fighting

KANO, Nigeria — Local government officials and a military spokesman in Nigeria agreed that security forces and Islamist militants...

Egypt street vendors, store owners say Morsi is bad for business

GIZA, Egypt — The woman with crates of unsold tomatoes breathed in the boisterous music of slum life: creaking shutters, squawking...

Egypt justice minister resigns after protests

CAIRO — Egypt's besieged justice minister has submitted his resignation after protests over the weekend by Islamists, who want to...

Egypt's Coptic Christians live in fear of Islamic extremists

CAIRO — The Mass was celebrated as if from centuries past: A bearded priest veiled in incense chanted for grace in a church along...

Egypt president uses tweets to convey kinder, gentler side

CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi, at least for the moment, appears to be channeling his softer side.

Libya's south teeters toward chaos — and militant extremists

SABHA, Libya — Their fatigues don't match and their pickup has no windshield. Their antiaircraft gun, clogged with grit, is perched...

Old animosities thrive in post-Kadafi Libya

ZINTAN, Libya — The prized scion of Moammar Kadafi is a prisoner of tribesmen in these mountains of scrub and ocher rock.

In Egypt, a satirist facing charges remains irreverent

CAIRO — He arrived with a prankster's aplomb.

Kenya Supreme Court upholds presidential election result

NAIROBI, Kenya — The second-place finisher in Kenya's recent presidential election accepted a unanimous Supreme Court ruling...

In Somalia, music festival aims to spread peace

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Lihle Muhdin was 11 years old when he first picked up a Kalashnikov rifle, pushed into combat by an Islamist...

Egyptian town haunted by deadly accident

Nelson Mandela discharged from hospital

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- South Africa's former president, Nelson Mandela, has been discharged from the hospital after 10 days...

Chinua Achebe dies at 82; Nigerian writer

JOHNANNESBURG, South Africa — When Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe was in college, a European professor assigned "Mister Johnson," which...

South Africa President Zuma to face leadership challenge

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- South Africa President Jacob Zuma, the controversial leader facing intense criticism for a $30-million...

Egypt's Morsi reverses most of decree that expanded his powers

CAIRO — In a political reversal to calm weeks of unrest, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi early Sunday rescinded much of last month&...

At consulate in Libya, a model diplomat is lost

WASHINGTON — J. Christopher Stevens was in many ways the model American diplomat, committed, idealistic, willing to take risks and...

John Atta Mills dies at 68; president of Ghana

JOHANNESBURG — Ghanaian President John Atta Mills, who vowed that the nation's oil reserves would be used for the good of the people,...

South Africa teens often become moms

MAVELA, South Africa — Her grandmother was an alcoholic and her mother was a prostitute, strangled by a client. The child of another...