Gripped by fear, families in Nigeria are scared to send their children to school following the mass abductions of young girls by Boko Haram militants.

Stephen Senghor has started a sustainable development company in Petit Mbao, a coastal community just outside Dakar, Senegal.

A Christian woman in Sudan reportedly has until Thursday to either recant her faith or face a possible sentence of death.

A group of Marines trained in crisis-rapid response are moving to a base in southern Italy due to concerns over continuing unrest in northern Africa, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

The United States is now using drones and manned surveillance aircraft over Nigeria in the search for the hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram.

Until the abduction of more than 200 girls at the Government Girls Secondary School in rural Chibok, Nigeria's Boko Haram insurgency received scant attention in the global media, which gave it brief airtime when the insurgents exploded their bombs or torched a school.

Oscar Pistorius needs to undergo mental health examinations, the judge in his murder trial ruled Wednesday, putting a halt to the proceedings after nearly two months of testimony. The very unusual move throws the trial into confusion.

#BringBackOurGirls has now been tweeted more than a million times across the world, as global outrage over the kidnap of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls grows.

The U.N. Security Council has condemned the killing of a French journalist who was reporting from the violence-racked Central African Republic.

The judge in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial will rule Wednesday on whether the athlete must undergo psychiatric evaluation, a move that would put the trial on ice for at least a month.