December 31, 2018 UN threatens to slash Yemen food aid over theft by rebels The U.N. food agency on Monday threatened to suspend some aid shipments to Yemen if the Houthi rebels do not investigate and stop theft and fraud in food distribution, warning that the suspension would effect some 3 million people.
December 31, 2018 Rights group urges Sudan to halt use of lethal force Human Rights Watch urged Sudan's government on Monday to instruct security forces not to use lethal force against protesters, citing independent groups as saying that 40 people have been killed since protests demanding President Omar al-Bashir's ouster erupted nearly two weeks ago.
December 31, 2018 Congo counts votes in presidential election, after delays Congo's election officials are counting votes Monday in a presidential election that the opposition and observers say has had numerous irregularities.
December 31, 2018 Gambia's journalists, free from dictator, work to win trust Journalists in Gambia have launched a self-regulatory body they hope will offer legitimacy, and far more freedom, to media emerging from a dictatorship that ruled the tiny West African nation for more than two decades.
December 30, 2018 Sudan unions call for 2nd march on Bashir's palace An umbrella group of independent professional unions called Sunday on people to march on the presidential palace in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, to demand that leader Omar Bashir step down, signaling that protests against the 29-year rule of the autocratic president are showing no sign of abating.
December 30, 2018 The Latest: Opposition candidate votes in Congo election The Latest on Congo's presidential election (all times local): 8:40 a.m.
December 29, 2018 Nebraska medical facility says it's monitoring American possibly exposed to Ebola An American who may have potentially been exposed to Ebola while in the Democratic Republic of Congo arrived in Nebraska to be monitored, the medical facility revealed Saturday.
December 29, 2018 Egypt says its security forces killed 40 militants Egypt said Saturday its security forces have killed 40 militants in raids on their hideouts in the Sinai Peninsula and the Greater Cairo area, just hours after a roadside bomb targeted a tourist bus in the capital, killing three Vietnamese tourists and their Egyptian guide.
December 29, 2018 Congo's top archbishop pleads for peace on eve of election Congo's top archbishop on Saturday urged peace on the eve of the country's long-delayed presidential election , saying differences of opinion are no reason to "light the country on fire."
December 29, 2018 Former Nigerian President Shehu Shagari dies at 93 Shehu Shagari, Nigeria's second president, whose civilian tenure was sandwiched between two military rulers in an era rocked by coups, has died.