Sub-Saharan Africa is the ‘new epicenter’ of Islamic extremism, U.N. says Shoes of students kidnapped by the Boko Haram extremist group are strewn on the floor of a schoolroom in Kankara, Nigeria.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- The new global epicenter of violent Islamic extremism is sub-Saharan Africa where people are increasingly joining because of economic factors and less for religious ones, says a ...

Stagnating incomes in sub-Saharan Africa’s resource-intensive economies necessitate more effective fiscal management and broad-based structural reforms. Sub-Saharan Africa is home to nine of the world ...

A new report by the U.N.’s international development agency says that sub-Saharan Africa is the new global epicenter of violent Islamic extremism and that people are increasingly joining as a ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A new report by the U.N.’s international development agency says that sub-Saharan Africa is the new global epicenter of violent Islamic extremism and that people are ...