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Sub-Saharan Africa may soon see economic benefits from a “demographic dividend.”

Christian students at the Kenyan college were beheaded by members of al-Shabab.

The al-Shabab militants who staged a deadly attack on Garissa University College Thursday have started beheading students there held hostage, according to reports.

Kenyan leader Uhuru Kenyatta urged police to "ensure that the 10,000 recruits whose enrollment is pending" be accelerated.

Here are five things to know about the Islamist militants who claimed responsibility for the deadly attack at a university in Kenya on Tuesday.

The virus has infected over 25,000 people and caused over 10,000 deaths since the current outbreak began in West Africa.

Masked militants of the Somalia-based al Shabab group stormed the Garissa University campus on Thursday. The whereabouts of 535 of the schools’s 815 students are still not known.

Investors expected the worst, but Nigerian citizens proved them wrong.

For his fifth trip to Africa, Obama will be co-hosting a meeting for business owners, investors and policymakers.

“The President reaffirms that there are no sacred cows and that this is just the beginning of an unwavering war against corruption.”

Somali security forces battled with Islamist militants from Friday to Saturday, eventually breaking the siege, but not before many people were killed.

As of late Friday local time, Somali forces were still trying to retake the hotel.

A debate over whether Ted Cruz can run for president was ignited when he launched his candidacy Monday.

The restaurant allegedly had a rule of not allowing Africans inside the place after 5:00 p.m.

The attack has killed Adnan Garaar, an al Shabaab leader believed to be the mastermind of a 2013 attack on a Nairobi shopping mall that killed 67 people, the Pentagon said.

A 17-million-year old fossil found in Kenya is helping scientists answer crucial questions about the origin and evolution of humans.

One thing Obama said is not funny was the letter Republican senators sent to Iran this week.

The drone strike reportedly hit a vehicle in Somalia with Adan Garar on board.

Nigerian online entrepreneurs are still fighting a stereotype as old as email.

If confirmed, Katherine Simonds Dhanani would lead the U.S. mission to Somalia, which is based at the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.

Rajendra Pachauri, who headed the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, resigned Tuesday over allegations in India.