Gunmen on Friday shot dead a Nigerian Islamic traditional leader in the northeastern state of Borno as he and other Muslim royals were heading to a funeral, the state government said.

Thousands of angry protesters poured into the streets of the Central African Republic's capital Friday. The target of their rage? Peacekeepers sent to protect them.

They are the dispossessed -- stateless, and unrecognized by football's ruling body. But these teams will still play at their own World Cup, thousands of miles from the conflicts in their homelands.

CNN looks at humanitarian aid to Sudan and if it could be leveraged in the case of the woman on death row for apostasy.

Ibrahim Hamadto lost both his arms at the age of 10, but that didn't stop him from playing the sport he loved.

The husband of a woman sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christianity tells CNN's Nima Elbagir his wife is unlikely to change her mind.