[A wave of deadly night-time raids and revenge attacks involving two ethnic groups in Kenya has seen more than 100 people brutally killed in recent weeks.Men, women and children have been murdered, variously by bullets, machetes and spears, while some were burned…

[Demonstrators attacked the U.S. embassies in Yemen and Egypt on Thursday in protest at a film they consider blasphemous to Islam, and the United States sent warships toward Libya, where the U.S. ambassador was killed in related violence this week.In Libya, authorities…

[MOGADISHU, Somalia — Hassan Sheik Mohamud, a moderate political activist and academic, took on one of the world’s most challenging political posts on Monday after members of Somalia’s newly created Parliament elected him the country’s next president.Mr. Mohamud’s election, held in a…

  [Four African countries have been tasked by regional governments in the Great Lakes region to form a force of 4,000 troops to fight the M23 rebel group in DR Congo. Kenya, Tanzania, Angola and DR Congo will deploy the force under…