C. AFRICAN REPUBLIC CHOOSES MAYOR AS NEW LEADER
By HIPPOLYTE MARBOUA and KRISTA LARSON In this Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014 photo, a French soldier looks on as the body of a lynched Muslim man is burned by a…
West Africa
NIGERIAN LEADER FIRES ALL MILITARY COMMANDERS
By MICHELLE FAUL In this photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. Rescue workers gather around dead bodies following a suicide car bomb at a military post in Maiduguri, Nigeria. A…
WORLD SEA PIRACY FALLS FOR THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR
By EILEEN NG FILE – In this Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012 file photo, masked Somali pirate Hassan stands near a Taiwanese fishing vessel that washed up on shore after the…
ABE HEADS TO AFRICA TO BOOST JAPAN’S PROFILE
By KEN MORITSUGU Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, and his wife Akie wave as they depart for Africa, at Haneda Airport in Tokyo Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. Abe is…
$0.60 FOR CAKE: AL-QAIDA RECORDS EVERY EXPENSE
FOR — USE MONDAY, DEC. 30, 2013 AND THEREAFTER – FILE – In this July 23, 2013 file photo, United Nations peacekeepers search a house suspected to have been used…
AP REPORTER’S QUEST TO FIND BODIES ENDS IN DESERT
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI In this July 23, 2013 photo, Sidi Fassoukoy, searching for his missing brother, covers his nose against the smell as he unearths the remains of two men…
MAN SURVIVES 3 DAYS AT BOTTOM OF ATLANTIC
By MICHELLE FAUL In this image made available Tuesday Dec. 3, 2013, Harrison Odjegba Okene looks in awe as a rescue diver surfaces into the air pocket which has kept…
ISLAMIC MILITANTS ATTACK NIGERIAN AIR FORCE BASE
By HARUNA UMAR File – In this file photo taken Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, Nigerian soldiers ride in an armored car during a Eid al-Fitr celebration in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Hundreds…