Ahdaf Soueif isn't in one place for long. She has spent the last month touring India and Australia, and is back in her native Egypt for a few days before heading to London.

Mereso Kilusu was married aged 13 to an abusive man in his 70s. Now she campaigns against child marriage.

It was supposed to be cricket's "Rosa Parks" moment, but Basil D'Oliveira unwittingly walked into one of sport's most controversial and shameful sagas. Eventually it would end in South Africa's two-decade sporting isolation from the world.

Nine South African officers appeared in court Friday over accusations they were involved in dragging a man down a road while he was handcuffed to the back of a police van.

The running mate of one of Kenya's two frontrunners in the presidential election said the vote tallying should stop because it is '"doctored" and lacks integrity.

A Frenchman was captured among jihadists fighting international forces in northern Mali and is being extradited to France, the French defense minister said Friday.

Did French and Chadian troops kill some of al Qaeda's most powerful men in Africa? That question could soon be answered, thanks to DNA tests being used to identify Islamist fighters killed in recent battles in northern Mali, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told RTL radio, in Paris, on Thursday.