U.S. youths recruited to fight in Somali militia, authorities say

Federal authorities unsealed criminal charges Monday against eight suspects alleged to be part of a U.S. recruiting network that sent...

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Operatic trills rise from Botswana bush

Operatic trills rise from Botswana bush

The villages of Botswana are full of music. Gospel music. Choral music. The singsong repetitive music of rote classroom learning.

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SERIES NCIS: The team's investigation into a lieutenant's death is connected to a...

Guinea-Bissau: Cocaine's traffic hub

As a senior police official, Edmundo Mendes' job is to arrest the South American cocaine traffickers who use his troubled West African...

Guinea Bissau: Cocaine traffic hub

As a senior police official, Edmundo Mendes' job is to arrest the South American cocaine traffickers who use his troubled West African...

Sierra Leone's crises have global reach

Sierra Leone's crises have global reach

When the power went out that night, Dr. Ibrahim Thorlie was operating on his fifth patient of the day in a maternity hospital with a...

New dinosaur species may be a missing link

New dinosaur species may be a missing link

Before the dig started, it looked like any other patch of dinosaur dirt: gray soil, a few brownish fossilized bones exposed by erosion....

Glorious vision in Kenya's sky melts away

Glorious vision in Kenya's sky melts away

From a tree-shaded plateau facing Mt. Kenya, the worshipers gaze anxiously at its melting ice cap and wonder: Is God dead?

100 held in killings in north Congo

Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested about 100 armed men blamed for killing dozens of policemen in an attack in...

Southern Africa's elephants: treasured killers

Southern Africa's elephants: treasured killers

Here's how to pitch this (true) story to Hollywood: Ordinary guy named John, ordinary Sunday, cycling home into a setting sun. Monster roars...

36 dead in Somalia violence

At least 36 people have been killed and scores wounded in three days of fighting in towns across chaotic Somalia, a local human rights group...

Claims in arms case stir up the French

Claims in arms case stir up the French

Convicted of profiting from illicit arms sales to Angola, a former French interior minister is roiling the political establishment by...

Nigeria militants declare cease-fire

Nigeria's main militant group declared an indefinite cease-fire Sunday, raising the prospect of peace in the oil-rich Delta region after...