December 12, 2015 Slain Tunisia MP to be buried near Belaid: wife Assassinated opposition MP Mohamed Brahmi will be buried on Saturday in a Tunis cemetery next to leftist leader Chokri Belaid who was killed six months ago, Brahmi's wife said.
December 12, 2015 Liberal economist new Egypt PM: state media Egypt's interim president on Tuesday named liberal economist Hazem al-Beblawi, a former finance minister, as the country's new prime minister, presidential spokesman Ahmed al-Muslimani said.
December 12, 2015 US ship captain recounts 18-day ordeal as hostage of crack-smoking Nigerian pirates Capt. Wren Thomas and the crew aboard the C-Retriever were helpless, barricaded inside the ship’s tank room, as armed pirates cut through the steel door with an angle grinder.
December 12, 2015 New video appears to show kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls praying to Allah A new video believed to be from Nigerian terror group Boko Haram shows more than 100 kidnapped Christian school girls praying to Allah, and the Islamic terror group’s leader – who was reportedly negotiating with the government – saying he will hold the girls until imprisoned militants are freed.
December 12, 2015 Emotions run wild at scene of Egypt 'massacre' Emotions ran wild on Monday near an elite military base in Cairo outside which at least 51 people were gunned down in a dawn attack on supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.
December 12, 2015 Boredom, discontent set in among Kony hunters An Internet campaign that's gone viral aims to capture notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony, but Ugandan foot soldiers who have spent years searching for the man are starting to ask a question their top commanders prefer to ignore: Is it possible he is dead?
December 12, 2015 In Kenya, jubilation for Kenyatta after slim win Uhuru Kenyatta -- the son of Kenya's founding father and a man accused by an international court of helping orchestrate the vicious violence that marred the nation's last vote -- was certified as the winner on Saturday of Kenya's presidential election by the slimmest majority -- 50.07 percent.
December 12, 2015 Springboks put Mandela on their sleeves South Africa's national team will have an outline image of Nelson Mandela on a sleeve of their shirts when they tackle Argentina Saturday in the Rugby Championship.
December 12, 2015 Egypt joins aid effort for Sudan flood victims Egyptian military planes landed in Khartoum on Wednesday as part of a regional aid effort for victims of flooding in Sudan this month that claimed dozens of lives.
December 12, 2015 Gunmen open fire on military commander's car in Sinai: army Gunmen on Wednesday opened fire on the car of a senior military commander in Egypt's restive Sinai peninsula, the army spokesman said, a day after two people died in an attack by militants on a security checkpoint.
