Africa
Zambian president gives death row inmates life sentences
Zambia\'s President Edgar Lungu on Thursday reduced the sentence of 332 prisoners awaiting death by hanging to life imprisonment to ease maximum ...UN: World can end AIDS epidemic by 2030
The world can end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, the United Nations said on Tuesday, highlighting global success in rolling out life-saving ...Libyan parties reach peace deal
Libyan political leaders reached a new version of a U.N.-brokered peace deal Saturday, putting pressure on the Tripoli leadership to sign on ...Al Shabaab attacks hotel in Somali capital, six civilians killed
Six civilians and four militants were killed when al Shabaab Islamists attacked a hotel in the center of the Somali capital Mogadishu ...South Sudan promises probe into claims girls raped, burnt alive
South Sudan\'s government said Sunday it was investigating United Nations allegations that its troops raped then burnt girls alive inside their homes ...South Sudan army retakes town from rebels
South Sudan\'s army said on Monday it had retaken the strategic northeastern town of Malakal from rebels, the latest time the ruined ...14 boys dead in South African province after botched circumcisions
Traditional circumcision ceremonies in South Africa\'s Eastern Cape province, where the rite-of-passage practice is common, have left 14 boys dead and 141 ...Sleepless nights for father of girl allegedly abused by French soldier
Ben Ouedraogo hasn\'t been able to sleep since the discovery of a video that appears to show a French soldier sexually abusing ...Tunisia declares state of emergency after terror attack
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a state of emergency on Saturday to give his government more powers following an Islamic militant ...Boko Haram kills nearly 200 in 48 hours of Nigeria slaughter
Boko Haram carried out a fresh wave of massacres in northeastern Nigeria on Friday, locals said, killing nearly 200 people in 48 ...