Train cars filled with Egyptian security force recruits hopped the tracks and crashed in Giza early Tuesday, killing at least 19 people and injuring some 107 others, a local official said.

The U.N. Security Council will discuss the conflict in Mali on Monday as a military offensive to wrest Islamic militants' control over part of the country rages on.

CNN's Nima Elbagir reports on wildlife rangers who risk their lives to guard Kenya's elephant population from poachers.

U.S. troops lent "limited technical support" in France's daring -- and, ultimately, failed -- bid in Somalia to rescue an intelligence agent who'd been held hostage for years, President Barack Obama told Congress on Sunday.

Nigeria's military says it's questioning a leader of Boko Haram, the Islamic militant group blamed for the killings of hundreds of civilians, after capturing him in the country's northeast early Sunday.

Islamist rebels in Mali acknowledged Sunday that they have suffered heavy losses in a battle against the military and French troops.

From the recovery of an ailing iconic leader, to an international military intervention in a nation described as the next Afghanistan, the big Africa stories of the week will echo in the continent and beyond.

Hosni Mubarak, jailed for life over the deaths of anti-government protesters in the uprising which toppled him from power, is to face a retrial after an Egyptian court accepted an appeal against his conviction.

Gunmen targeted the car of the Italian consul general in Benghazi, Libya, on Saturday as he was leaving the consulate, the latest in a series of attacks targeting foreign missions and security officials in the eastern city.

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.

Rebels in the Central African Republic -- who took over numerous towns and threatened to overrun the capital -- will be part of a unity government under that nation's embattled president, a government spokesman said Friday.

French troops, on the ground and in the air in dusty and dangerous Mali, are taking the fight to radical Islamists there, French President Francois Hollande said Friday.

The retirement of the pirate leader Mohamed Abdi Hassan, also known as "Afweyne," has generated much media coverage, but the real significance of his announcement is the indication it gives of how Somalia's pirates currently view their business model. It appears that hijacking vessels in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden is no longer seen as a relatively risk-free affair.

Kenyan legislators voted to give themselves send-off bonuses of $110,000 each despite the president's veto of their earlier attempt at another hefty payoff.

When artist Nadia Jelassi exhibited work in Tunis last year, she hoped the piece would prove a talking point.