April 23, 2017 Novelist and conservationist Kuki Gallman shot in Kenya A Kenyan police official says novelist and conservationist Kuki Gallman has been shot and injured at her ranch after herders invaded in search of pasture to save their animals from drought.
April 23, 2017 AP Explains: How Kenya's drought has turned into violence The shooting of a novelist and conservationist in Kenya has drawn attention to the violent tensions between landowners and herders who are trying to keep their animals alive in a widespread drought.
April 23, 2017 Sicily prosecutor probes possible NGOs-smuggler 'contacts' A prosecutor in Sicily says that an investigation has found "evidence" of contacts between rescue boats run by some humanitarian groups and Libya-based migrant smugglers.
April 23, 2017 Kuki Gallmann, 'I Dreamed of Africa' author, shot at Kenyan ranch Kuki Gallmann, the Italian-born conservationist and author, is being treated for a gunshot wound at a Nairobi hospital after being attacked by herders at her ranch in Kenya.
April 23, 2017 Plight of Palestinian refugees now spans 5 generations As a boy, Palestinian Abdullah Abu Massoud fled the war over the creation of Israel in 1948 and sought refuge in the nearby Gaza Strip.
April 23, 2017 Roadside bomb in Somalia kills 8 soldiers, police say A Somali police official says a roadside bomb in a remote town in Somalia's semiautonomous state of Puntland has killed eight soldiers and injured three others.
April 23, 2017 No one detained over South Sudan civilian killings, UN says The United Nations' top human rights official in South Sudan says no one has been detained in connection with recent killings of civilians in the western town of Wau.
April 22, 2017 Spain: 13 injured as ferry slams into port in Canary Islands Spanish authorities say 13 passengers aboard a ferry have been injured when the boat slammed into a breakwater in a port on the Canary Islands.
April 21, 2017 Babies of the IS caliphate languish in limbo, prison Hundreds of children fathered by the Islamic State's foreign fighters or brought to the self-proclaimed caliphate by their parents are now imprisoned or in limbo with nowhere to go, collateral victims as the militant group retreats and home countries hesitate to take them back.
April 21, 2017 Rights group: Halt Egypt aid over video showing executions An international rights group is urging suspension of military aid to Egypt after video leaked by an Islamist TV channel showed troops appearing to carry out cold-blooded executions of detainees in the northern Sinai Peninsula, where the army is embroiled in battles with the Islamic State militant movement.