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The relatives of Farzana Iqbal who bludgeoned her to death in May outside a Pakistani court, causing a public outcry, have been sentenced to death.
Online abuse in Pakistan is triggering real-world violence against women owing to slow responses from Facebook and Twitter and poor law enforcement.
Nawaz Sharif has questioned why police allegedly stood by while a woman was stoned, adding that a "totally unacceptable" crime had to be dealt with.
The powerful Afghan vice-president Marshal MQ Fahim has died of natural causes, weeks before the country goes to the polls.
Pakistanis have voted in a landmark test of democracy and have been quickly reminded of the militant violence that plagues the country.
Kenyan troops marched into a Somalian fishing village two months ago, but they have not yet found the al-Qaeda-linked militants they came to hunt.
The spokespeople of Kenyan soldiers and members of an extremist Islamist militant group have taken their battle to Twitter with insults flying.
African Union troops fighting al-Qaeda-linked Islamists in the failed state of Somalia have a $10-million funding gap.
Somali refugees are falling victim to rape and assault as the region endures its worst drought in over 60 years.
What do mosquitoes like more than human skin? Stinky socks. Scientists think the odour of human feet can be used to attract and kill mosquitoes.
Three people were killed after suicide bombers attacked an African Union peacekeeping base in the Somali capital on Monday.
Five simultaneous suicide attacks targeted African Union bases in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, officials have said.
An advocacy group on Sunday said new satellite images provide evidence that northern Sudanese troops have committed war crimes.
A helicopter fired warning shots toward a suspected pirate skiff, where six Somali men sat among assault rifles, grappling hooks and a ladder.
A drought in Kenya is so bad that it is even felling the giants of the animal kingdom — the country’s famed elephants.
Nigeria and Angola are Africa’s top two oil producers, yet most of their people live in poverty, often in settlements dwarfed by derricks.
Foreign troops should prepare to intervene in Zimbabwe to end a worsening humanitarian crisis, the Kenyan prime minister said on Sunday.
Hundreds of thousands of victims of a brutal 20-year insurgency in northern Uganda remain destitute and traumatised, Amnesty International says.
Kenyan armed forces are accused of preventing aid workers from helping families caught between a brutal militia and an army crackdown.
Dozens of children filed silently into the room, their eyes on the cracks in the floor. One by one they told of being tortured by the Kenyan army.
