March 16, 2017 16 rebels killed in fighting with army in Congo's east A Congo military spokesman says the army has killed at least 16 former members of a rebel group who re-entered the country's east.
March 16, 2017 South African center offers hope for abandoned babies Outside an old house in a battered Johannesburg neighborhood, a hatch door slams shut and an alarm signals the arrival of an abandoned baby.
March 16, 2017 UN: 20 million going hungry in 4 nations; $4.4B needed soon Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the United Nations needs $4.4 billion by the end of next month to prevent "a catastrophe" of hunger and famine in South Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen.
March 16, 2017 Body of Egypt's so-called Blind Sheikh brought home from US The body of a blind Egyptian cleric convicted of plotting terror attacks in New York has been brought back to Egypt for burial after he died in a U.S. federal prison over the weekend.
March 16, 2017 Nigeria says gunmen kidnap 2 Germans from northern village Police say gunmen have kidnapped two Germans from a village in northern Nigeria.
March 16, 2017 Boko Haram suicide bomber kills 1 in northern Cameroon A Cameroon official says a suicide bomber has killed at least one person near the country's border with Nigeria.
March 16, 2017 Top Libyan security official wounded in car bomb attack A Libyan spokesman says a top security official in the eastern city of Benghazi has survived an assassination attempt by a car bomb.
March 16, 2017 Somalia's new leader inaugurated, vowing to restore dignity Somalia's new President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has been inaugurated while promising to restore dignity to the troubled Horn of Africa nation.
March 16, 2017 Over 100 migrants drowned off Libya shores, survivor says A survivor of this week's deadly migrant boat disaster says over 100 migrants drowned off the Libyan coast when their boat lost its engine shortly after starting their perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea.
March 16, 2017 South African court rules against ICC withdrawal A South African court has ruled that the government's decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court was unconstitutional.