Sexual violence against female protestors at Cairo's Tahrir Square appears to be increasing, an activist group devoted to end such assaults said Tuesday.

The United States has signed a deal with the central African nation of Niger to host American troops and surveillance drones to keep tabs on Islamic militants in the region, officials from those countries said Tuesday.

Holder Zambia has been knocked out of the Africa Cup of Nations following a goalless draw with Burkina Faso. The 2011 winners finished third in its group following Nigeria's 2-0 win over Ethiopia.

Residents of Gao, Mali, celebrate their town's liberation from rebel rule.

Protesters ignored Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy's curfew order in cities along the Suez Canal and clashed with police and troops in Port Said.

A suicide bomber detonated explosives outside the office of Somalian Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon on Tuesday, his spokesman said.

French-led troops in Mali now control the ancient city of Timbuktu, the neighboring Gao -- and the vast swath in between that was an Islamist stronghold for almost a year, the French defense ministry said.

Bilal Bettamer is a 23-year-old student who wants to save Benghazi from those he calls "extremely dangerous people." But his campaign against the criminal and extremist groups that plague the city has put his life at risk, and he says that if he receives more threats, he will have to leave Libya.