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December 20, 2018

Morocco arrests 3 new suspects in Nordic hikers' killing

Moroccan authorities have arrested three more suspects in the killings of two Scandinavian tourists in Morocco's Atlas Mountains, as the Danish intelligence agency said it "may be related" to the Islamic State group.

December 20, 2018

Hunt for names in deadly migrant shipwreck yields more dead

The quest to trace the identities of all the victims of the Mediterranean's deadliest migrant shipwreck has instead revealed that the sinking was far deadlier than anyone knew.

December 20, 2018

The Mediterranean's deadliest shipwreck just got deadlier

Before their lives ended in an underwater deathtrap, before they lined up 100 to a row on a Libyan beach to board a boat with no anchor, the young men from the parched villages of the Sahel had names.

December 19, 2018

Backpackers 'beheaded' in Morocco mountains were ‘executed by terrorists,’ security sources say

The attack on the two Scandinavian backpackers in Morocco could have had a terrorism motive, according to reports. Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, from Denmark, and Maren Ueland, 28, from Norway, were brutally murdered while camping in the Atlas mountains.

December 19, 2018

UN reports 'alarming' trends in drug trafficking in Africa

The U.N. drugs and crime chief said Wednesday that his office is registering "new, alarming trends" in drug trafficking in western and central Africa that are destabilizing the ability of country's to govern as well as security, economic growth and public health.

December 19, 2018

Morocco: Terrorist ties to Scandinavian hiker slaying

The lone suspect arrested in the killing of two Scandinavian tourists is connected to a terrorist group, and three other suspects are on the run, Moroccan prosecutors and a security official said Wednesday.

December 19, 2018

Former Zimbabwe first lady Grace Mugabe subject of arrest warrant for alleged assault

The former first lady of Zimbabwe, Grace Mugabe, is facing an arrest warrant out of South Africa stemming from an assault allegation from 2017.

December 19, 2018

South African police issue arrest warrant for Grace Mugabe

South African authorities issued an arrest warrant for Grace Mugabe, the wife of Zimbabwe's former leader who was accused of assaulting a woman in Johannesburg last year, South African police said Wednesday.

December 19, 2018

Saudi-led coalition bombs air base in Yemen's capital

The Saudi-led coalition bombed an air base in Yemen's rebel-held capital on Wednesday as a local cease-fire held around the Red Sea port city of Hodeida.

December 19, 2018

South Sudan security forces strip, rob peace deal monitors

South Sudan's National Security Service forced several officials assessing the country's new peace deal to strip and face "inhuman" treatment, an international monitoring group said Wednesday.