NIGERIA

Lt. Col. Toumba Mohamed said residents reported 400-500 women and children kidnapped.

Allegations of ballot rigging is a dangerous narrative in Nigeria’s presidential elections, and Jonathan is no stranger to such accusations.

Museum officials said that there have been no threats made against the museum but "we should be vigilant."

With elections looming, the U.S. president calls on Nigeria’s leaders and citizens to ensure they are free, fair and peaceful.

Measles-related deaths could grow to 16,000 in West Africa because of disruptions to health care facilities caused by the Ebola outbreak.

Chadian strikes killed several dozen Boko Haram fighters in the Nigerian village of Djaboullam, said a senior Niger official.

"With Boko Haram, you never know," says one woman lucky enough to have escaped. "You never know what's going to happen."

Victims of the terror group's "killing and maiming spree" are discovered as international troops retake lost Nigerian territory.

Slightly more than half of women in Nigeria are registered to vote, one estimate says.

Two guards were having coffee, a third was eating a snack and a fourth never showed up — leaving no guards at Tunisia's museum and parliament.

A total of nine people were arrested Thursday in connection with the attack, during which five gunmen stormed the National Bardo Museum in Tunis. Twenty-three people were killed in the raid.

A major rally to mark the North African country's Independence Day is planned for Friday amid fears of follow-up attacks.

Just days remain until voters cast ballots in the African nation, but many foreign reporters are still unable to enter the country.

Wednesday's violence could imperil the "tolerant and rights-respecting society" that Tunisians seek, a human rights group says.

Tunisian authorities arrested nine people Thursday in connection with a terror attack at the National Bardo Museum in Tunis.

Didier Reynders' actions have raised questions about the country's lack of a national anti-racism plan.

The African Union said the attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunisia was "heinous and cowardly," and underlines the need for enhanced inter-African cooperation.

Australia has tried to convince Indonesia to grant clemency to two of its nationals sentenced to death for smuggling drugs.

China is becoming a significant player in arms exports and is now eyeing Africa for even further expansion.

The administration of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan failed to act soon enough, said former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

The evacuation follows the infection of an American health-care worker who is now being treated at a U.S. hospital.