South Africa butterfly hunters: A rare breed

Israel begins deporting Eritrean refugees to troubled African homeland

JERUSALEM — In an acceleration of its controversial crackdown on African asylum seekers, Israel has begun sending Eritrean refugees...

Return to violence in eastern Congo; soldiers disguised as women

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- In the far east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, residents were greeted with an odd sight over the...

Seven U.N. peacekeepers killed in Darfur ambush

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Seven United Nations peacekeepers were killed and 17 were injured in an ambush in the Darfur region of western...

Nelson Mandela's controversial king takes on South Africa's president

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Nelson Mandela's king is a colorful figure. Perhaps a little too colorful.

Nelson Mandela remains in critical condition

PRETORIA, South Africa -- Nelson Mandela remains in a critical condition in a hospital in Pretoria, but one of his grandsons said Tuesday...

Top South Africans call on Mandela family to reconcile

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- President Jacob Zuma and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu voiced the dismay of many fellow South Africans on Friday...

Mandela family dirty linen aired as brother accuses brother

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — As a boy, Mandla Mandela wanted nothing more than to be a disc jockey in the city. But his grandfather,...

President Obama wraps up efficient Africa trip

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — On his last day on the continent, President Obama stood at a memorial here, head bowed in silence. He...

Nelson Mandela's family battles in court as he remains critically ill

PRETORIA, South Africa -- As South Africans continued their long and painful vigil Tuesday for critically ill elder statesman Nelson...

In Tanzania, Obama focuses on partnership initiatives

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — Flying over East Africa on Monday, a White House official was in the midst of a briefing on a new initiative...

Obama honors Mandela during South Africa visit

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Nelson Mandela will leave a legacy that demonstrates the success of "acting on our ideas," President Obama...

In South Africa, Obama continues his focus on youth

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — President Obama's first audience of South Africans assembled Saturday in Soweto, and he recalled the...

Obama's Nelson Mandela predicament

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — President Obama, asked how Nelson Mandela's illness might alter a much-anticipated visit to South Africa,...

Obama touts G-8 plan to reduce hunger in Africa

DAKAR, Senegal — President Obama on Friday touted his vision to reduce hunger in Africa and the developing world by injecting new...

Mandela family in court battle over graves

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- As Nelson Mandela's poor health continued to sadden South Africans and inspire memories of his greatness, a...

Obama begins Africa tour, visits Senegal slave house

DAKAR, Senegal — President Obama arrived in this corner of West Africa to deliver messages about civil society and good governance,...

Obama's Africa visit will take him to a changed continent

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — When a newly elected President Obama zipped through Africa in 2009, he was given a hero's welcome on...

South Africans hold their breath as Nelson Mandela's health worsens

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The health of former President Nelson Mandela, already critical, has deteriorated further in the past two...

Nelson Mandela receiving prayers for 'a peaceful, perfect end'

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Nelson Mandela remained in critical condition in a Pretoria hospital Wednesday, as elders from his...

The Obama-Mandela dynamic, reflected in a photo

WASHINGTON — One is standing, cutting a tall silhouette the world would soon recognize. The other, an aging icon, rests in a dimly...

Biofuel project in Kenya ignites land, environmental disputes

DIDA ADE, Kenya — With its leaf-thatched mud huts, bad roads, chronic unemployment, crushing poverty and vast tracts of...

High seas drama emerges in piracy-murder trial

NORFOLK, Va. — As heavily armed pirates held an American sailboat off the coast of Somalia in February 2011, Navy SEALs on the...

Nelson Mandela hospitalized in serious condition with lung infection

JOHANNESBURG — Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been hospitalized in serious condition with a lung infection,...

Egypt-Ethiopia water dispute escalates after threatening remarks

CAIRO — A battle over water has turned into a war of colorful rhetoric between Ethiopia and Egypt over the flow of the Nile, which...

British government apologizes for colonial abuses in Kenya

NAIROBI, Kenya — It was not quite a direct apology and it came at least 50 years late.

Suspected pirates face unprecedented trial in U.S. court

WASHINGTON — Long before a retired Southern California couple and two friends were shot and killed aboard their sailboat off the...

Gunmen attack U.N. site in Somalia; 15 dead

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- At least 15 people died when an Al Qaeda-linked militia attacked a U.N. compound here Wednesday, government...

Mali signs peace deal with Tuareg rebels

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Mali's government reached a peace deal Tuesday with Tuareg fighters who rebelled last year and seized most...

At consulate in Libya, a model diplomat is lost

WASHINGTON — J. Christopher Stevens was in many ways the model American diplomat, committed, idealistic, willing to take risks and...

Nelson Mandela 'responding better' to treatment, Zuma says

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- After days of somber news, as South Africa's former leader Nelson Mandela clung to life in intensive care, a...

John Atta Mills dies at 68; president of Ghana

JOHANNESBURG — Ghanaian President John Atta Mills, who vowed that the nation's oil reserves would be used for the good of the people,...

Chinua Achebe dies at 82; Nigerian writer

JOHNANNESBURG, South Africa — When Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe was in college, a European professor assigned "Mister Johnson," which...

South Africa teens often become moms

MAVELA, South Africa — Her grandmother was an alcoholic and her mother was a prostitute, strangled by a client. The child of another...

Desperate migrants meet with misery in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula

Timbuktu calligrapher keeps ancient knowledge alive

Nelson Mandela discharged from hospital

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- South Africa's former president, Nelson Mandela, has been discharged from the hospital after 10 days...