As soon as Facebook went public Friday, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg became an instant multi-billionaire.
Royal Dutch Shell has shut down the Nembe Creek Trunkline to repair theft-related damage, deferring some 60,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
West-African regional bloc ECOWAS will send troops Mali and Guinea-Bissau to try to pressure their new juntas to reinstate civilian rule.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a law allowing torture victims to sue for human rights abuses abroad can only target individuals, not groups.
Adding to Mali’s insurmountable problems is the threat of civil war, prompted by an insurgency in the north by the minority Tuareg people.
As Mali prepares to organize new elections following the swearing in of interim president Dioncounda Traoré on Thursday, crises in the north continue to escalate.
Representatives from the Economic Community of West African States, or Ecowas, said they would decide Monday what action to take against Mali's ruling junta, which missed a deadline for ceding power to civilians.
A group of West African president's cancelled their visit to Mali mid-flight after hundreds of pro-junta supporters rushed the runway at Bamako's airport on Thursday.
Tuareg rebels in northern Mali, flush with arms and fighters from the Libyan revolution, pushed south Friday morning to occupy positions vacated by government forces as mutinous soldiers in the capital sought to complete a coup by arresting the president, military sources said.
According to Libya's Vice Premier, Mustafa Abushagur, and a government spokesman, Mauritanian has agreed to hand over Gaddafi's former intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Senussi to Libya.
Senussi, who has been on the run since the dictator's overthrow last year, is likely to become the subject of a three-way tug-of -war between Tripoli, France and the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague who also want to put him on trial in Europe.
The last of a West African herd of giraffes, which were living in the wild in Niger, are reproducing in large numbers.
A “lethal mix” of drought, regional wars, high food prices and widespread poverty has conspired to create this debilitating crisis.
Algerian security forces have found a large cache of weapons, including shoulder-fired missiles, which they believe were smuggled in from neighboring Libya, a security source briefed on the discovery told Reuters on Saturday.
Amnesty International describes the situation in northern Mali as the country’s worst crisis in two decades.
Around 20 gunmen believed to be members of Boko Haram raided a federal prison in Nigeria on Wednesday night, freeing as many as 200 inmates before escaping in getaway vehicles.
Libya urged Niger on Saturday to extradite Moammar Gadhafi's son Saadi, saying his call for Libyans to prepare for a coming uprising threatened bilateral ties. In response, Niger pledged to tighten house surveillance of Saadi, but reiterated he could not be handed over to a state where he could face execution.
The crisis means nearly 12 million more people require assistance.
An increasingly violent insurgency by Islamist sect Boko Haram in Nigeria's economically stagnant north has begun pressuring the country's finances by forcing extra spending on security. It could be costing as much as 2 percent of the country's gross domestic product.
Thanks to expansive oil fields and a reservoir of millions of barrels of crude, Nigeria is the third-richest country in Africa. But due to corruption, poor wealth distribution, and lack of infrastructure, the nation's people suffer from staggering rates of poverty.
Islamist sect Boko Haram, whose attacks have killed hundreds in oil-rich Nigeria, will continue its campaign until the country is ruled by sharia law, a senior member was quoted as saying on Saturday: We have our sights set on [bringing sharia to] the whole world, not just Nigeria.
Boko Haram threatened Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan this week. Speaking in an audio message that was posted online, rebel leader Imam Abubakar Shekau said that he was willing to martyr himself to make Jonathan see.
