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Friday, October 11, 2013 - 00:00
She found that drug trade-related homicides increased by nearly 40 percent in affected municipalities after a leader was captured or killed.
Monday, October 7, 2013 - 07:53
In a stealthy seaside assault in Somalia and in a raid in Libya's capital, U.S. special forces on Saturday struck out against Islamic extremists who have carried out terrorist attacks in East Africa, snatching a Libyan al-Qaida leader allegedly involved in the bombings of U.S. embassies 15 years ago but aborting a mission to capture a terrorist suspect linked to last month's Nairobi shopping mall attack after a fierce firefight.
Monday, October 7, 2013 - 00:00
Under contract with the U.S. Air Force, the plain was a "prospector" aircraft, equipped with surveillance equipment and employed to track speedboats and other vessels that smuggle cocaine.
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 08:50
Malian authorities have arrested an army colonel and a group of soldiers whom they believe were behind the recent unrest at the military camp where last year's coup began, a spokesman said Thursday.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 - 08:49
Guinea's electoral commission says it could be days before provisional results are available from the West African nation's first legislative elections in more than a decade, drawing criticism from the opposition.
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - 09:45
Malian soldiers and ethnic Tuareg separatist rebels clashed again in the northern desert town of Kidal on Monday, a day after trading gunfire downtown in a battle that has raised fears about whether an unraveling peace accord could lead to protracted fighting in the region.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 13:32
Sudan dropped almost completely off the Internet on Wednesday as riots over the lifting of fuel subsidies entered their third day and protesters battled security forces in the capital.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 13:11
A spokeswoman for the United Nations mission in Central African Republic says the government is sending a delegation to the east of the country this week to assess reports that fighters with the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group are disarming.
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 11:43
Kenyan forces have secured an upscale Nairobi shopping mall, killing three suspected terrorists and promising to "punish" any others they encounter, following a three-day hostage standoff with an al Qaeda-linked rebel group that has killed at least 62 people and injured 175, police said.
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 08:40
A roundtable discussion of the weekend's terrorist attack in Nairobi, Kenya.