By the CNN Wire Staff-May 7, 2012 -- Updated 0913 GMT (1713 HKT)-Bamako, Mali (CNN) -- Elderly men were keeping watch Saturday over Timbuktu's main library after Islamists burned a tomb listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Written By:Margaret Kalekye/PMPS,    Posted: Mon, May 07, 2012-The ongoing oil exploration in Turkana County continues to yield promising results after an additional 80 meters of oil bearing column were found at the Ngamia -1 drilling site.

Coincidences and ignorance can create chaos!FrMar-2 May 2012 Last updated at 08:59 GMT-In our series of viewpoints from African journalists, writer Sola Odunfa explores the rising popularity of prophecy-making.-Some years ago a man knocked on the door

BY SIMON NDONGA, 4 MAY 2012-Nairobi, Kenya — Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere now says Sunday's grenade attack at a church in Ngara was carried out by a known Al Shabaab terrorist.-Iteere says the attacker who goes by the alias 'Amar'

By Caroline Mutoko, Special to CNN-May 4, 2012 -- Updated 1419 GMT (2219 HKT)-Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- When I think of the story of African women, I immediately think of my mother and I want to use her story as a frame of reference in how African leaders can improve the lives of women.

The story of Laura Adshead, former girlfriend of British Prime Minister David Cameron, who swapped politics, alcohol and drugs for life as a Benedictine nun-MAURO PIANTA-ROME-She could have been Britain’s First Lady but she chose to become a Benedictine nun.

By PHILIP KITOTO-Posted  Sunday, May 6  2012 at  18:00-Hallo Philip,-I am a 35-year-old man in distress about my mother. She is now over 70 years old and has been married to my father for over 40 years. -Both of them are retired civil servants who got employed

Scripture:John 14:21-26-23 Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Meditation: Do you know the love that surpasses all, that is stronger than death itself 

Left-wing candidate François Hollande has defeated incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in Sunday's runoff, becoming the first Socialist to win a French presidential election since François Mitterrand in 1988.By Joseph BAMAT  - French socialist François Hollande

Published Saturday, May 5 2012 at 00:00-The Church could be headed for a shakeup if a bid by mainstream and top Pentecostal churches to rein in rogue preachers succeeds. At the heart of the move is the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya,