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West African leaders at an emergency summit on Sunday agreed on a 3,300-strong force to wrest control of northern Mali…

MOGADISHU — Islamist rebels said they shot dead a Somali lawmaker in Mogadishu on Saturday and threatened to kill every…

  Sudan and South Sudan have reached an agreement on how to share the oil riches controlled by Khartoum before…

Top negotiators from Sudan and South Sudan met Sunday in the latest round of African Union-mediated talks to resolve a…

South Africa's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma won a closely fought election to become the new head of the African Union Commission, the…

President Mohamed Morsy called on Sunday for a common African market. In his speech to the African Union summit in…

The African Union has welcomed the participation of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsy at the African Summit, to be held in…

Malawi said Friday it will not host the African Union summit in July over the bloc's insistence on inviting Sudan's…

Soldiers looted petrol stations and hijacked cars in Mali's capital Bamako on Friday, 48 hours after a military coup, and…

An oil dispute between Sudan and South Sudan has become "a serious threat to peace and security in the region,"…