Health officials in Sudan say a cholera outbreak in a southern city has killed nearly 60 people and sickened about 1,300 others over the last three days.

Charities say two humanitarian vessels have rescued around 190 Europe-bound migrants, including women and children, off the coast of Libya.

(AP Photo/MSF)JOHANNESBURG – Jihadi rebels are fighting to capture Palma, a strategic town in northern Mozambique where fighting continued Thursday after launching a three-pronged assault on the center a day earlier. The town in Cabo Delgado province was attacked “in three directions” by “terrorists,” according to an official with Mozambique’s defense ministry. The Islamic extremist rebels already hold the port town of Mocimboa da Praia, which they captured in August. It said the government of Mozambique had declared the 4-kilometer (nearly 2 1/2-mile) radius surrounding the gas project a special security area. Palma town is just two kilometers (over a mile) from the edge of the project's security area.

Health facilities in Ethiopia's embattled region of Tigray have been "looted, vandalized and destroyed in a deliberate and widespread attack on health care," the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders said Monday, March 15, 2021. (Medecins Sans Frontieres via AP)KAMPALA – Health facilities in Ethiopia’s embattled region of Tigray have been “looted, vandalized and destroyed in a deliberate and widespread attack on health care," the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders said Monday. Nearly 70% of 106 health facilities surveyed from mid-December to early March had been looted and more than 30% had been damaged. “Health facilities and health staff need to be protected during a conflict, in accordance with international humanitarian law. That has to stop.”AdAccording to Doctors Without Borders, health facilities in most areas of Tigray "appear to have been deliberately vandalized to render them nonfunctional.” One-fifth of the health facilities were occupied by soldiers and few health facilities now have ambulances after most were seized by armed groups.

Smoke rises after Saudi-led airstrikes on an army base in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Mar. The Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels in Yemen said Sunday it launched a new air campaign on the war-torn countrys capital and on other provinces. AdResidents in Sanaa, Yemen’s rebel-held capital, reported hearing huge explosions as a round of bombs fell on the city on Sunday. AdWhile Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia rarely cause damage or casualties, strikes on major oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, have shaken energy markets and the world economy. A Saudi-led military coalition launched a bombing campaign to dislodge the Houthis and restore the internationally recognized government.