June 6, 2018 UN migration agency: 46 African migrants drown near Yemen The U.N. migration agency says 46 migrants drowned, including nine women, and 16 remain missing, presumed dead after their vessel capsized in high waves while crossing the Gulf of Aden.
June 3, 2018 Building collapses in Kenya's capital; police report 3 dead Three people have been killed when a building collapsed in Nairobi's low income residential area of Huruma, a police official and witnesses said Sunday.
May 26, 2018 Congo says confirmed Ebola cases rise to 35, with 10 deaths Congo's health ministry says there are now 35 confirmed cases of Ebola in the country's northwest, including 10 deaths confirmed from the often lethal virus.
May 21, 2018 South African man, 23, found guilty of hacking family members to death with ax, staging crime scene A South African man has been found guilty of murdering three members of his immediate family on Monday, more than three years after the gruesome attack in an upscale housing estate that shocked the nation.
May 20, 2018 Congo to begin vaccinating against Ebola after new cases in major city Congo will begin administering an experimental Ebola vaccine Monday in Mbandaka, the northwestern city of 1.2 million where the deadly disease has infected some residents, Congo's health minister announced.
May 17, 2018 Ebola outbreak in the Congo spreads to major city, health officials confirm An outbreak of Ebola, once confined to remote rural areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has now spread an area just outside of city of more than one million people, health officials said Thursday.
May 13, 2018 2 British tourists kidnapped in Congo freed Britain's foreign secretary says that two British tourists being held hostage in Congo have been released two days after being kidnapped.
May 11, 2018 Bride whose arm was bitten off by crocodile gets married days after attack A woman whose arm was torn off by a crocodile wasn’t going to let a lost limb get in the way of her wedding -- and she managed to walk down the aisle just days after the gruesome attack.
May 11, 2018 British tourists abducted, guard killed in Congo park ambush A Congo park spokesman says one guard has been killed and two British tourists and their driver have been abducted in Virunga National Park.
May 11, 2018 Niger ambush that killed 4 US soldiers blamed on multiple failures, Pentagon says Multiple failures are to blame for the Niger ambush that killed four U.S. service members last October, the Pentagon said in a report released Thursday which cited insufficient training and preparation in addition to the decision to go after a high-level Islamic State terror group insurgent without proper command approval.