Mine closed as police disperse strikers; a spokesman said police fired stun grenades and arrested seven people.

nterim President Dioncounda Traore on Sept. 1 asked the Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS, for air support to destroy rebel bases and for five battalions to help reconquer northern towns.

The chairman of the National Press Council said the newspapers were suspended for publishing photos of officials whom a former president tried to name to his cabinet after he lost the November 2010 election.

Police found four suicide vests, two improvised explosive devices, four AK-47 assault rifles, ammunition and 12 grenades.

Kenyan authorities should expand investigations into the alleged roles of four politicians in clashes in the country's southeast, an international human rights group said Thursday

Two suicide bombers blew themselves up Wednesday while trying to gain access into a heavily guarded hotel that is his temporary residence.

David Cecil, one of the producers of "The River and the Mountain," will appear in court Thursday. The charge - "disobeying lawful orders" - carries a maximum sentence of two years.

Nine of the Muslim preachers killed last week in neighboring Mali were repatriated to Mauritania on Wednesday.

Labor unrest grows in South Africa as police say 1,000 strikers are blocking access to the main shaft at Anglo American Platinum.

Parliament urged the government to deploy military to the country's southeast where a tribal feud has killed more than 100.