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The U.S. Navy is holding six suspected pirates after a sea battle off the Horn of Africa.

A man and a teenage boy have been charged with the killing of Eugene TerreBlanche, who served a sentence for beating a black worker and setting dogs on a gas station attendant.

Suspected Somali pirates fired on a U.S. Navy warship off East Africa early Thursday in what appeared to be a ransom-seeking attack on an American guided missile frigate, officials said.

At least 200 people were killed when a trench collapsed at an unofficial gold mine in Sierra Leone, the West African country's Ministry of Mineral Resources said on Friday.

An international fleet of warships is attacking and destroying Somali pirate vessels closer to the shores of East Africa and ...

Soldiers patrolled the central Nigerian city of Jos on Monday and aid workers tried to assess the death toll after attacks on outlying communities in which several hundred people were feared to have been killed.

Archaeologists have unearthed the massive head of one Egypt's most famous pharoahs who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago, the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities announced Sunday.

Leaders of Niger's military coup promise a "return to constitutional order", three days after overthrowing the president.

An "ongoing attempted coup d'état" was taking place Thursday in the Republic of Niger, according to the Niger Embassy in London, England.

The genomes of four Bushmen and one Bantu were sequenced or partially sequenced. 'If we really want to understand human diversity, we need ... to study those people,' lead author of the study says. By Thomas H. Maugh II Scientists have long known that ...