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Nigeria came perilously close to defeat but grabbed an extra time victory over Morocco while Zimbabwe trounced favourites Mali to book their places in the African Nations Championship semi-finals Saturday. Aliyu Ibrahim scored the extra time winner…

Mali started their 2014 African Nations Championship campaign on a winning note when they defeated West African rivals Nigeria 2-1…

France will cut its troops in Mali to 1,600 by the middle of next month from the current level of 2,500, President Francois Hollande said Wednesday. Speaking at an airbase in Creil in northern France, Hollande said the “situation is well under control…

US President Barack Obama ended his vacation in sunny Hawaii and boarded Air Force One for a flight back home to chilly Washington. Obama arrived in his native Hawaii on December 21 along with his wife Michelle and daughters Sasha, 12, and Malia, 15…

One person was wounded Saturday when an improvised bomb exploded in the Kenyan capital, police said, in a shop in Nairobi’s mainly ethnic Somali district Eastleigh. The attack is the latest of a series of bomb or grenade blasts in Kenya. “One person…

President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita wished 15 million Malians “peace, nothing but peace” as he delivered a New Year greeting Tuesday at the end of one of the most turbulent years in the west African nation’s history. “I only want peace, nothing but peace…