Social Development Minister Bassima Hakkaoui, the sole female minister in this country of 33 million people, said she would try to push forward a law protecting women.

Those protesting left behind graffiti on walls reading: "Death to the Americans, Death to the Israelites."

Rank-and-file soldiers, ignoring their own command structure, carried out the massacre of 16 Islamic preachers.

Protesters angry at last week's murder of the U.S. ambassador set fire to the extremist group's compound.

Some Muslim clerics in Uganda are calling for protests against a film made in the U.S. that mocks the Prophet Muhammad.

Peul and Malinke ethnic groups, the two largest ethnicities in the country, at odds according to witnesses.

Hailemariam Desalegn succeeds former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who died on Aug. 20 after ruling Ethiopia for more than two decades.

Killings come days after Nigeria's army said it killed a Boko Haram spokesman and another ranking member.

Arik Air blames government corruption; said officials raided its operations in Lagos, disrupting flights.

The international aid group Oxfam says half a million people have been displaced.