BEIRUT (AP) – The U.N. children’s agency said Friday that it witnessed the death of a teenager who died of starvation “in front of our eyes,” as well as several cases of severe malnutrition among children trapped in a besieged Syrian town near Damascus. Hanaa Singer, UNICEF’s representative in Syria, …

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – Kenya’s president said on Friday that Kenyan troops were killed when al-Shabab Islamic fighters attacked an African Union base in Somalia. He gave no casualty figure but an al-Shabab spokesman said at least 63 soldiers died. President Uhuru Kenyatta described the loss as heartbreaking. “Regrettably, some …

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) – Samples taken from the body of a woman who died this week in Sierra Leone tested positive for Ebola, officials said Friday, the day after the Ebola epidemic was declared over. The World Health Organization, which on Thursday declared an end to the deadliest Ebola …