For the second time in four months, the Kenyan president Saturday rejected an attempt by lawmakers to award themselves a retirement bonus of $110,000 each and a series of other perks.

International leaders are responding to an uprising of Islamist militants in northern Mali, hoping to inject stability in a country once hailed as a model for democracy in Africa.

A French pilot was killed in a helicopter raid in Mali as France deployed troops to the African nation to try to prevent an advance by militant Islamist forces, the French defense minister says.

The chopping sound of helicopter blades and volleys of gunfire startled residents of a Somali town out of their sleep Friday night, when paratroopers raided an Islamist militant camp there.

A year after Nigeria's fuel protests, its "Occupy" movement could re-emerge at any time to take the country by storm, says Omoyele Sowore.

The Sudanese army said it killed more than 50 rebels during clashes in a state bordering neighboring South Sudan.