Kenya burns huge pile of ivory tusks to protest poaching
By TOM ODULA Kenya’s president set fire Saturday to 105 tons of elephant ivory and more than 1 ton of rhino horn, believed to be the largest stockpile ever destroyed,…
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Boko Haram militants launches first attack on Chadian village
By DANY PADIRE and KRISTA LARSON Suspected Boko Haram militants staged their first attack in Chad on Friday, hitting the third country outside their home base of Nigeria in recent…
Suicide bomb hits Niger border town after Boko Haram attack
By DALATOU MAMANE Boko Haram staged an overnight assault on a border town in Niger and a suicide bomber detonated explosives near a market in the same town a few…
Nigeria postpones elections to March 28, cites uprising
By MICHELLE FAUL Nigeria’s electoral commission says it is postponing presidential and legislative elections until March 28 because security forces fighting an Islamic uprising cannot voters’ safety around the country.…
Nigeria postponing Feb. 14 vote amid Boko Haram violence
By MICHELLE FAUL Nigeria’s electoral commission will postpone Feb. 14 presidential and legislative elections for six weeks to give a new multinational force time to secure northeastern areas under the…
Boko Haram, hit by 3-nation offensive, rampage in Cameroon
By EDWIN KINDZEKA MOKI and MICHELLE FAUL Nigerian Islamic extremists on the run from a massive, three-nation offensive took revenge Thursday on civilians in neighboring Cameroon, shooting and burning scores…
11 PARENTS OF NIGERIA’S ABDUCTED GIRLS DIE
By MICHELLE FAUL FILE – In this Monday, May 19, 2014 file photo, Martha Mark, the mother of kidnapped school girl Monica Mark cries as she displays her photo, in…
C. AFRICAN REPUBLIC CHOOSES MAYOR AS NEW LEADER
By HIPPOLYTE MARBOUA and KRISTA LARSON In this Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014 photo, a French soldier looks on as the body of a lynched Muslim man is burned by a…