March 25, 2017 Somalia's proposed new cabinet challenged by lawmakers Somalia's parliament speaker is urging the new prime minister to review his proposed cabinet after 105 lawmakers presented a petition calling for changes.
March 25, 2017 Rape reaches 'epic proportions' in South Sudan's civil war After months of being raped by her rebel captors in the middle of South Sudan's civil war, the young woman became pregnant. Held in a muddy pit, sometimes chained to other prisoners, she later watched her hair fall out and her weight plummet. But the child was a spark of life.
March 25, 2017 Congo must help search for missing UN experts: Rights group Congo's government must cooperate with United Nations efforts to locate experts who have been missing in the violent Kasai region for nearly two weeks, Human Rights Watch said Saturday.
March 25, 2017 Police clash with anti-Christian mob in southern Egypt Police have used tear gas to disperse an angry mob of Muslims approaching Christian homes in southern Egypt.
March 24, 2017 Geologist: Shell concealing hazards from Nigerian oil spills A German geologist says Royal Dutch Shell's Nigeria subsidiary "fiercely opposed" environmental testing and is concealing data showing thousands of Nigerians are exposed to health hazards from a stalled cleanup of the worst oil spills in the West African nation's history.
March 24, 2017 South Africa accused of covering up grisly murder spree WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Last month, British woman Sue Howarth and her husband Robert Lynn were woken at 2am by three men breaking into a window of their remote farm in Dullstroom, a small town in the northeast of South Africa, about 150 miles from the nearest capital city.
March 24, 2017 NGO fears death of at least 240 migrants in Mediterranean A Spanish aid organization says it has recovered five bodies from waters off the Libyan coast and fears that at least 240 migrants could have died after two boats capsized in the Mediterranean.
March 24, 2017 Blast rattles Cairo suburb, killing 1; police don't say bomb Egypt's Interior Ministry says a man was killed and three members of his family were injured when a device exploded while he was cleaning up his backyard in a leafy Cairo suburb.
March 24, 2017 Arab autocrats: Exiled, killed or fighting for survival Egypt's ousted former President Hosni Mubarak was released Friday after six years in custody but he is not the only autocratic ruler in the Middle East that was caught up in Arab Spring revolts that swept across the region in 2011.