West Africa
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - A police commissioner says members of a radical Muslim sect killed two people in northern Nigeria, the latest motorcycle slayings by the group.
LAGOS, Nigeria - While Nigeria's president remains silent on whether he'll seek the oil-rich nation's highest office in upcoming elections, the campaign has all but begun on the Internet.
ABUJA, Nigeria - The leader of Nigeria's ruling party said Thursday that he believed the West African nation's president should be allowed to run in next year's election, despite a power-sharing agreement that calls for a candidate from the Muslim north.
JALINGO, Nigeria - An attack on a mosque by youths in eastern Nigeria erupted into bloodshed, leaving at least five people dead as religious violence continued between Christians and Muslims in Africa's most populous nation, witnesses and police said Wednesday.
DAKAR, Senegal - The spiritual chief of Senegal, who assumed leadership of the West African nation's most powerful Muslim brotherhood three years ago, has died.
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